Alan Leong
Alan Leong | |
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| Leader of Civic Party | |
| Assumed office 8 January 2011 (13 years, 121 days) | |
| Chairman | Kenneth Chan |
| Vice Chairman | Albert Lai Margaret Ng |
| Preceded by | Audrey Eu |
| Member of the Legislative Council | |
| Assumed office 12 Septermber 2004 | |
| Constituency | Kowloon East |
| Majority | 2004: 56,175 (19.1%) 2008: 39,274 (16.6%) 2010: 82,066 (92.53%) |
| Internal Vice Chairman of Civic Party | |
| In office 6 December 2008 – 8 January 2011 | |
| Preceded by | Fernando Cheung |
| Succeeded by | Margaret Ng |
| Candidate of the Chief Executive election | |
| Majority | 15.93% |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 22 February 1958 Hong Kong |
| Political party | Civic Party |
| Alma mater | La Salle Primary School Wah Yan College, Kowloon University of Hong Kong University of Cambridge |
Alan Leong Kah-kit [1] (Chinese: 梁家傑; pinyin: Liáng Jiājié; born 22 February 1958), SC is a member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council, representing the Kowloon East geographical constituency and leader of the Civic Party. He is also vice-chairperson of the Independent Police Complaints Council.
Early career
Leong graduated with an LLB from the University of Hong Kong and an LLM from the University of Cambridge. He was chairman of Hong Kong Bar Association from 2001 to 2003.
Political career
Sparked by the legislation of the Basic Law Article 23, Leong founded the Article 23 Concern Group in 2003 which later developed into the Article 45 Concern Group and the Civic Party. As chairperson of Hong Kong Bar Association, he mobilized many barristers to participate in the July 1 protests. He won a seat in the Legislative Council in the 2004 election.
In January 2011, Leong was elected the second leader of the Civic Party, replacing Audrey Eu.[2]
Chief Executive election 2007
Leong was nominated by the Civic Party as its party candidate for the Chief Executive election in 2007. He was also supported by the pan-democratic group, including the Democratic Party.
Leong later secured 132 nominations and became the first pro-democracy candidate to succeed in joining the Chief Executive election. In the end Leong lost to Donald Tsang in the CE election on 25 March 2007, gaining 123 votes from the 800-member Election Committee.
"Five Constituencies Referendum"
In January 2010, Leong and other four lawmakers, Albert Chan, Tanya Chan, Leung Kwok-hung and Wong Yuk-man. resigned their seats in order to force by-elections, in which they all stood, which they called on to be treated as a referendum to press the Chinese Central Government into allowing universal suffrage in Hong Kong.[3] On 16 May 2010, he was re-elected as a lawmaker in the by-election.[4]
Personal life
Leong is married with three children.
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- 1958 births
- Alumni of the University of Hong Kong
- Cantonese people
- Chinese lawyers
- Hong Kong Roman Catholics
- Hong Kong politicians
- Living people
- Members of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
- Hong Kong Senior Counsel
- Alumni of Wah Yan
- Alumni of the University of Cambridge
- Charter 08 signatories
- Civic Party politicians