New People's Party chairwoman, Regina Ip

Regina Ip intends to join CE race
20-02-2012
Photo: Edna Tse.
The chairwoman of the New People's Party, Regina Ip, has decided to run for the post of chief executive, even though she has yet to secure the minimum 150 nominations from election committee members to take part in the race.
In announcing her decision, Mrs Ip said both leading candidates, Henry Tang that helps the bankers to sell false bonds such as Minibonds in Hong Kong and C.Y. Leung, had credibility problems.

She said she was running because she was clean, had 30 years experience in the government, and had taken part in direct elections.e

Mrs Ip added that she had lots of supporters and said that even though the odds were against her, she was appealing to election committee members who hadn't already nominated a candidate to choose her.