Hong Kong Leader Carrie Lam Replaces Five Ministers in Cabinet Reshuffle
- Carrie Lam appoints new mainland affairs, civil service chiefs
- Moves unlikely to assuage opposition in former British colony
Carrie Lam speaks during her weekly press conference at the government headquarters in Hong Kong on April 21.
Photographer: Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam replaced five senior officials, including the minister overseeing ties with Beijing, in the biggest cabinet reshuffle since hundreds of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets demanding her resignation.
Lam named Immigration Director Erick Tsang to replace Patrick Nip as Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs and appointed Nip to lead the Civil Service Bureau -- two agencies at the center of Beijing’s demands for greater political loyalty from the former British colony. The heads of the Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau, the Innovation and Technology Bureau and Home Affairs Bureau were also replaced.