31-513: The Power Voters was a pro-democratic political group in Hong Kong. The core members formed the radical party People Power in early 2011 and became one of its branches. Its major aims were to punish the largest pro-democratic party Democratic Party which did not participate in the resignation as referendum campaign launched by Civic Party and League of Social Democrats to press Beijing for universal suffrage in Hong Kong, and negotiated with
62-591: A de facto referendum to pressure the government to implement universal suffrage , in which the Democratic Party disapproved but the Civic Party joined. On 1 February 2010, LSD founding chairman Wong Yuk-man stepped down and To succeeded as the party chairman. The tension between the To and Wong factions worsened by the late 2010 as Wong disagreed with the policies of To and his faction, including his disapproval of sniping
93-603: A seat with Stephen Shiu in Hong Kong Island . Wong Yuk-man's protege Wong Yeung-tat also failed to win a seat where he contested against the LSD chairman Andrew To, who Wong Yuk-man split with a year ago. The People Power fiercely attacked the Democratic Party candidates during the campaign and called for blank vote in the District Council (Second) constituency created under the 2010 constitutional reform package and not voting for
124-489: Is a populist and radical democratic political party in Hong Kong. Formerly chaired by Raymond Chan , it belongs to the radical wing of the pro-democracy camp . People Power was founded in 2011 as a political coalition consisting of the defected League of Social Democrats (LSD) legislators Wong Yuk-man and Albert Chan and activists from the Power Voters , Democratic Alliance and The Frontier who aimed to "punish"
155-654: The 2015 District Council election , People Power failed to win a seat while chairwoman Erica Yuen who run in South Horizons West again did not win a seat. The Frontier left the People Power coalition in April 2016 after five years of alliance. In the 2016 LegCo elections , the People Power formed an electoral alliance with another radical democrat League of Social Democrats. The alliance won two seats in total with two incumbents Leung Kwok-hung and Ray Chan re-elected in
186-569: The Democratic Party for its compromise with the Beijing authorities over the constitutional reform proposal in 2010. It filled 62 candidates in the 2011 District Council election , in which many of them stood against the Democrats, but only got one candidate elected. The party however ran a successful 2012 Legislative Council election by winning 10 per cent of the vote and gaining three seats in
217-620: The Democratic Party , after it merged the United Democrats and the moderate Meeting Point , against the Meeting Point faction. In December 1998, he staged a successful coup d'état in the party leadership election , which promptly brought the party into a phase of factional struggle. The Young Turks formed their own list of about ten candidates to run for the Central Committee and nominated Lau Chin-shek to run for vice-chairman against
248-509: The Legislative Council . After Wong Yuk-man's faction left the party in 2013, People Power developed a warmer relationship with the mainstream pan-democrats and cooperated with the LSD over parliamentary tactics such as filibustering . In the 2016 Legislative Council election , the party formed an electoral coalition with the LSD in which they received about seven percent of the votes, seeing Raymond Chan being re-elected. In protest to
279-524: The New Territories East . Retiring incumbent Albert Chan failed to help Wong Ho-ming to be elected despite him standing as a second candidate in the New Territories West . After the election, People Power chairwoman Erica Yuen resigned from the office for the election defeat. Raymond Chan and Tam Talk-chi represented People Power and joined the 2020 legislative election , after winning
310-573: The minimum wage legislation on the 2000 LegCo election platform of the party. The Mainstreamers which included the "triumvirate", Yeung Sum , Cheung Man-kwong and Lee Wing-tat , saw the minimum wage debate was a challenge to the party authority and decide to fight back by joining hands with the Meeting Point faction to defeat the Young Turks. Andrew To wrote a newspaper article accusing the Mainstreamers of suppressing intra-party dissent, "just like
341-609: The pro-democracy primaries earlier. Both said they would not sign the confirmation form to declaring upholding the Basic Law. The election was then delayed by the Hong Kong Government citing the pandemic, while the legislative session was extended by the Chinese Government for a year. Chan resigned as MP on 30 September 2020, the original end date for the session, arguing the extension was unconstitutional. People Power
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#1732848851339372-792: The Central Government for the reformed constitutional reform package in mid-2010. 11 Power Voters members who were also affiliated themselves with People Power participated in the 2011 District Council elections , most of them chose to contest with the Democratic Party candidates. They failed to get any seat in the election. People Power (Hong Kong) High Court District Court Magistrates' Court Special courts and tribunals: Chief Executive Elections Legislative elections District council elections Consular missions in Hong Kong Hong Kong–China relations Hong Kong–Taiwan relations People Power ( PP )
403-724: The Democratic Party and pro-Beijing candidates. Albert Chan gave up his seat in the Lai Hing constituency in Tsuen Wan District to spine the Democratic Party chairman Albert Ho Chun-yan in Lok Tsui in Tuen Mun District . The People Power failed in winning any seat but a seat in Fung Cheung where its candidate Johnny Mak Ip-sing did not spine the pan-democracy party. After winning just one seat of 62 contested, Albert Chan admitted that
434-658: The Democratic Party and the Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood (ADPL). Wong Yeung-tat left and formed the Civic Passion . In May 2013, the People Power once again staged a month-long filibuster by moving a total of 710 amendments on the Budget Appropriation Bill debate, to press for a universal pension scheme and a HK$ 10,000 cash handout to be included in John Tsang's budget. The government warned that
465-400: The Democratic Party in the upcoming 2011 District Council election , which To thought it would benefit the pro-Beijing camp . In November 2010, Wong Yuk-man's protege Edward Yum led a no-confidence motion against To at an extraordinary general party meeting in which To survived the motion by 170 to 111. As a result, two of the three legislators of the party, Wong Yuk-man and Albert Chan quit
496-636: The LSD in 2010. On the morning of 17 May 2012, Jasper Tsang Yok-sing , President of the Legislative Council adopt Article 92 of the Standing Order, which allows the president follow foreign parliament rules for unregulated behaviours to terminate the debate. In the end, all amendments were defeated and the Bill was passed. Shortly before 2012 LegCo elections , Johnny Mak, the party's sole District Councillor, and his group Democratic Alliance broke apart from
527-537: The LSD in disarray. Besides the defected LSD members, the party was formed by political groups including the Wong Yuk-man's Proletariat Political Institute , Power Voters supported by Stephen Shiu Yeuk-yuen , the owner of the Hong Kong Reporter , the re-grouped Frontier and the two pro-ROC organisations China Youth Organization and Democratic Alliance . Although considered part of the pan-democracy camp,
558-442: The People Power, as Johnny Mak wanted to lead a candidate list in the New Territories West . The party gained more than ten percent of the vote in the geographical constituency and won three seats. Wong Yuk-man and Albert Chan were re-elected to the Legislative Council, with Ray Chan newly elected in the New Territories East as the first openly gay legislator in Hong Kong history. Chairman Christopher Lau Gar-hung failed to win
589-521: The butchers in the Tiananmen massacre." To's comment led to a backlash of opinion within the party and led to the defeat of the minimum wage motion. The debate, largely took place in the mass media, publicised the factional rivalries and created a bad image within the party. To later on left the party in 2002 and formed the Social Democratic Forum , which later merged into The Frontier , where he
620-825: The earlier his earlier split with Stephen Shiu Yeuk-yuen, the owner of the Hong Kong Reporter and People Power's financial supporters over the Occupy Central plan. In March 2014, in a by-election for the South Horizons West seat on the Southern District Council , the group's chairman Erica Yuen secured second place with 1,083 votes, behind Judy Chan Ka-pui of the New People's Party (2,023 votes) and ahead of veteran Democrat Sin Chung-kai (920 votes). In
651-524: The former Meeting Point chairman Anthony Cheung . Hoping to make Lau as their factional leader, he would lead the party from the Meeting Point faction's pro-middle class, pro- laissez-faire and pro-Beijing positions to a more pro-grassroots position. Although Lau was elected vice-chairman, he resigned after the election. In a general meeting in September 1999, the To-led Young Turks also proposed to put
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#1732848851339682-539: The government's decision to postpone the 2020 Legislative Council election , Chan resigned from the Legislative Council in September 2020, which left the party with no representation in the legislature. The People Power was established in early 2011 after two legislators Raymond Wong Yuk-man and Albert Chan Wai-yip quit the League of Social Democrats (LSD), citing disagreement with leader Andrew To and his faction. About two hundred of their supporters joined them, leaving
713-528: The hunger strike. After the protest, he became the founding member of the United Democrats of Hong Kong , the united front of the pro-democracy forces in Hong Kong. In the 1991 District Board election , he became the youngest person to be elected to the Wong Tai Sin District Board , which he kept the position until 2011 when he was ousted. He represented the radical "Young Turks" faction in
744-522: The party to protest the move, including Tam Tak-chi and So Ho, the two vice-chairmen, and former chairman Christopher Lau. As a result, the party membership shrunk to around 10. Andrew To Andrew To Kwan-hang ( Chinese : 陶君行 ; born 7 February 1966) is a Hong Kong politician and activist. He is the former chairman of the League of Social Democrats and former member of the Wong Tai Sin District Council . Of Hakka ancestry, To
775-466: The party was formed as the coalition to spite the pro-democratic Democratic Party who supported the 2010 constitutional reform package in the 2011 District Council elections ,. The People Power claimed that the Democratic Party had already defected to the Chinese Communist Party and "sold out" the voters. The party filled in 62 candidates, many of them ran in the constituencies against both
806-526: The party with many party's leading figures on 24 January 2011, about two hundreds of their supporters joined them, leaving the LSD in disarray. In the 2011 District Council election, he lost his seat in Chuk Yuen North to a new face Roy Tin. He resigned as the LSD chairman as a result. He was active in sports and school sport competitions when he was young. His wife, Jackie Hung, was a leader of Civil Human Rights Front and Justice and Peace Commission of
837-403: The service would shut down if the budget bill do not pass. Jasper Tsang ordered to end the filibuster on 13 May after 55 hours spent to debate 17 of the 148 amendments. The Appropriation Bill was passed on 21 May 2013 with 684 amendments negatived. On 20 May 2013, Wong Yuk-man announced his resignation from People Power along with Proletariat Political Institute. It was believed to be related to
868-450: The strategy had failed. Nevertheless, he insisted that the party would 'stay the course'. In May 2012, Albert Chan and Wong Yuk-man staged a weeks-long filibuster by submitting 1306 amendments altogether to the Legislative Council (Amendment) Bill 2012 , by which the government attempted to forbid resigning lawmakers from participating in by-elections as the government's response to the " Five Constituency Referendum movement" launched by
899-757: Was born in Hong Kong in 1966 and was raised in Choi Hung Estate . He was educated at the La Salle Primary School and the La Salle College . He was the president of the student union when he attended the Lingnan College and was the secretary-general of the Hong Kong Federation of Students from 1989 to 1990. During the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 and he once went to Beijing to join
930-505: Was the secretary-general of the party until 2006. In 2006, he co-founded the League of Social Democrats (LSD) with other activists including legislators Albert Chan and Leung Kwok-hung and radio host Wong Yuk-man with a "clearcut" pro-grassroots stance and opposition party image. To exchanged fire with the Democratic Party over the " Five Constituencies Referendum " campaign, in which the LSD proposed to have five legislators resigning from all five geographical constituencies to trigger
961-592: Was under pressure after the imposition of the national security law and the arrest of democrats , including Chan and Tam. After Chan resigned as the party chairman and quitted the party in May 2021, Leung Ka-shing became the acting chairman. However, in December 2021, Leung was accused of attempting nominating a non-member as an executive of the party, reportedly filling up the vacancy by former vice-chairlady Chin Po-fun. 38 members left