A property consultant with three decades of close ties to Beijing has won Hong Kong’s most rancorous, divisive and scandal-plagued chief executive leadership election to date.
Leung Chun-ying, 57, on Sunday clinched 61 per cent of the 1,132 votes cast by members of the election committee comprising mostly senior members of the pro-Beijing political camp and Hong Kong business community.
It was the first chief executive election to feature a genuine contest between Beijing-sanctioned candidates. Previously, the pro-Beijing candidate has only faced a representative from the pro-democracy camp with no hope of winning.
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