Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam won't contest the election for chief executive on May 8, citing her family as her top priority and the reason for the decision.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam has said she will not run for a second term in a leadership election in the global financial hub due to take place on May 8.John Lee, the No. 2 official, is set to resign in order to contest the election
The election was pushed back from March 27 to give the government time to battle a COVID-19 outbreak that has infected more than a million of the 7.4 million people in the former British colony.
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