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Ng Kang-chung

Activist-turned-barrister Alvin Yeung Ngok-kiu, also a senior member of the opposition Civic Party, is to represent the pan-democrat camp in next February’s Legislative Council by-election.
Flanked by senior party officials, including chairman Audrey Eu Yuet-mee, leader and legislator Alan Leong Kah-kit, Yeung announced his candidacy yesterday.
“Although it is a by-election, it is an important battle we can’t afford to lose. We want to tell Beijing that we do not accept [Chief Executive] Leung Chun-ying.”
He added his party had secured fellow pan-democratic parties’ support for his candidacy. “They also agreed to offer assistance [during election campaigns] if time allowed,” he said.
Yeung, 34, joined the Civic Party in 2011 and is now the chairman of its New Territories East branch.
A rising star among the pan-democrats, Yeung was an activist with the now-defunct 7.1 People Pile – a protest group named after the massive anti-government march on July 1, 2003.
He studied political science in Canada and has a master’s degree in constitutional and administrative law in Peking University.
The February 28 by-election was triggered by the resignation of Yeung’s mentor, Ronny Tong Ka-wah, in the wake of summer’s failed political reform package. Tong also quit the Civic Party.
The New Territories East constituency has been a stronghold of the pan-democrats. Of the nine seats in the constituency, six were grabbed by the pan-democrats in the last general elections in 2012. There are more than 940,000 electors in the constituency.
Post-Occupy group Youngspiration had also expressed interested in contesting the race and urged pan-democrats to hold a primary. The group then made a U-turn and dropped the idea of having a primary after recent discussions with Civic Party.


Former activist Alvin Yeung to run in Legislative Council by-election

Civic Party's Alvin Yeung Ngok-kiu, a 34-year-old barrister who chairs the party's New Territories East division, is tipped to be stand as a candidate in the by-election after the resignation of Ronny Tong Ka-wah. 23JUN15

Civic Party's Alvin Yeung Ngok-kiu

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