Even so, Chung and another Tung appointee, Nellie Fong Wong Kat Man, are reportedly working out details of a ministerial system that will allow the chief executive to replace some secretary-level officials he reappointed for stability's sake.
Party lawmaker Sin Chung-kai asked Tung last week to explain why he had moved to open the television market, but not the fixed-line telephone sector, now limited to four operators, including one owned by tycoon Li.
It will attempt to get to the bottom of allegations by university pollster Dr. Robert Chung Ting-yiu that Tung's office -- in the person of his senior special assistant Andrew Lo Cheung-on -- tried to pressure the university to stop the polls.