Carrie Lam will find it hard to mend rifts

Hong Kong

SHE has pledged to unite Hongkongers, but is reluctant to address one of the biggest sources of the city's divisiveness: political reform.

In doing so, Hong Kong's new Chief Executive-elect Carrie Lam will find it hard to mend rifts in a society that appears to have grown increasingly polarised since the 2014 pro-democracy mass protests.

Mrs Lam was the only candidate who did not make political reform towards universal su…