【明報專訊】IN A SPEECH he gave the other day on a public occasion, the Hong Kong businessman Vincent Lo raised an important point - that, if the executive-legislature stalemate persists and the Chief Executive (CE) still lacks real backing, it will be no remedy to have the CE elected by universal suffrage in 2017, and Hong Kong's political difficulty will remain very much as it is. We agree with him. The CE now lacks real backing. Only if Beijing disabuses itself of the myth that the CE must belong to no political party will it be possible for this situation to change.