Fernando Cheung
Fernando Cheung Chiu-hung | |
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張超雄 | |
Member of the Legislative Council | |
Assumed office 1 October 2012 | |
Preceded by | Andrew Cheng |
Constituency | New Territories East |
In office 1 October 2004 – 30 September 2008 | |
Preceded by | Law Chi-kwong |
Succeeded by | Cheung Kwok-che |
Constituency | Social Welfare |
Personal details | |
Born | Macau | 23 February 1957
Political party | Labour Party |
Other political affiliations | Civic Party (2006–10) |
Alma mater | St. Paul's College Hong Kong Baptist University (BSocSc) California State University (MSW) University of California, Berkeley, (Ph.D) |
Occupation | Lecturer Social worker |
Fernando Cheung Chiu-hung (張超雄; born 23 February 1957, in Macau) is a Hong Kong politician, the vice-chairman of the Labour Party, he is a member of the Legislative Council.
Cheung worked in the United States from 1988, and became a naturalized United States citizen. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1990.[1] He served as the head of the Oakland Chinese Community Council (屋崙華人服務社).
After he moved back to Hong Kong in 1996, he became a lecturer at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He became the vice-convener of Civil Human Rights Front in 2002. He had close relationship with the pro-democrats. He joined the functional constituency of social welfare of the Legislative Council in June, 2004. He defeated Cheung Kwok-chu by a razor-thin 64 votes. After he won the election, he refused to visit Beijing on 30 September 2004 with nine other pro-democratic legislators; choosing to protest on that day for Hong Kong citizens instead.
Cheung introduced a motion for the referendum on universal suffrage for the 2007 chief executive elections in Hong Kong. The Chinese government had warned Hong Kong's pro-democracy legislators not to hold a referendum on universal suffrage for 2007/08. After three members of the democratic camp said they would not vote for his motion at the Legislative Council's constitutional affairs panel meeting, he said,
Perhaps the three councillors feared that a referendum was legally binding in nature and hence their reluctance to support my motion. I believe every democrat lawmaker still accepts the 2007-08 target. Voting against my motion does not mean they have abandoned hope of universal suffrage.
He has also said that if the motion cannot be passed, he would hold an unofficial referendum. [citation needed]
His paternal grandmother is a native of Peru.[2]
External links
References
- ^ http://www.legco.gov.hk/general/english/members/yr12-16/cch.htm
- ^ Emily Kwong, 讓女兒放輕鬆 叫父親太沉重, 13 December 2008, Hong Kong Economic Journal, Page 07
- 1957 births
- Living people
- Alumni of Hong Kong Baptist University
- Alumni of St. Paul's College, Hong Kong
- Hong Kong emigrants to the United States
- Members of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
- Hong Kong educators
- Hong Kong politicians
- Hong Kong social workers
- University of California, Berkeley alumni
- Civic Party politicians
- Labour Party (Hong Kong) politicians
- Hong Kong social democrats
- Hong Kong people of Peruvian descent
- Hong Kong Polytechnic University faculty
- HK LegCo Members 2004–08
- HK LegCo Members 2012–16
- Macau people