New Hong Kong Alliance
New Hong Kong Alliance Tân hương cảng liên minh | |
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| Chairman | Wai Kee-shun |
| Secretary | Lo Tak-shing Kan Fook-yee |
| Founded | 1 May 1989 |
| Dissolved | 1999 |
| Ideology | Chinese nationalism Ultraconservatism(HK)[1] Economic liberalism |
| Political position | Right-wingtofar-right |
| Regional affiliation | Pro-Beijing camp |
| Colors | Red |
| Part ofa serieson |
| Conservatism in China |
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TheNew Hong Kong Alliance(Chinese:Tân hương cảng liên minh,abbreviated tân cảng minh;NHKA) was apro-Beijingconservativepolitical organisation in Hong Kong in the 1990s mostly composed of businessmen and professionals. It was considered the more conservative wing of theGroup of 89formed by established elites in the debate of drafting theHong Kong Basic Lawand democratisation. It proposed the ultra-conservative Bicameral Model for the future political structure. The alliance's key person was secretaryLo Tak-shingwho had an eye on theChief Executivepost after 1997, the alliance became less active as Lo's chance of contesting the post got slimmer and it ceased to exist in 1999.
History[edit]
It was founded by the minority wing of theGroup of 89,the conservative faction in theHong Kong Basic Law Drafting Committee(BLDC) andConsultative Committee(BLCC), as well asLegislative Councilmembers,District Boardmembers, civil servants, and members from theProgressive Hong Kong Society(PHKS) but its leader,Maria Tam Wai-chudid not join the alliance due to its incompatibility of the alliance's aim at influencing government policies and her own role asExecutive Councilmember, though she was still involved in it informally.[2]
Led byLo Tak-shing,the former Executive Council and Legislative Council member and subsequently the chairman of the BLCC Standing Committee, the alliance's general committee had 32 members, 21 were from the Group of 89 and 10 from the PHKS, and at least 6 belonged to both Group of 89 and the PHKS. Core founding members includedRaymond Wu Wai-yung,Maria Tam Wai-chu,Kan Fook-yee,Chan Wing-kee,Lee Jung-kong,Veronica Cha,Philip Kwok Chi-kuenandPeter Wong Hong-yuen,and was supported by Lo's cousinHenry Litton,Tso Wung-wai,Elsie Leungand the laterChief ExecutiveLeung Chun-ying.[3]Lo Tak-shing was elected honorary secretary, Legislative Council member Peter Wong as treasurer, Veronica Wu and Raymond Wu as press secretaries andUrban CouncilmemberPao Ping-wingas recruitment officer.[2]
For the future political structure of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region after 1997 during the drafting of theBasic Law,the alliance proposed a political structure which was considered ultra-conservative called the Bicameral Model, in which only 25 of the Legislative Council members would be directly elected before 2005. Each chamber in the bicameral structure would have the veto powervis-a-visthe other. TheChief Executivewould not be directly elected before 2005.[4]The Bicameral Model caused head-to head confrontation of the supporters of the compromised "4-4-2 Model" which was supported by members of the Group of 89 such asVincent Lo Hong-shui.Lo Tak-shing and other four alliance members tried to block the adoption of the "4-4-2 Model" which led to some key alliance members from the party, such as Peter Wong,James Tien,William Fung,Chan Wing-kee, Raymond Wu, Veronica Wu, Philip Kwok to quit the alliance in early 1990.[2][5]
The alliance won one seat in the1991 electionof theLegislative Council of Hong Kong,Philip Wongin theCommercial (Second)functional constituency.Ronnie Wong Man-chiuandWinnie Cheung Wai-suncontested theIsland West constituencyon a joint-ticket but were beaten by theUnited Democratsteam ofYeung SumandHuang Chen-ya.Another Legislative Councillor of the alliance wasHoward Young,who was also member of theLiberal Partyand theLiberal Democratic Federation of Hong Kong.
The alliance opposed to the last GovernorChris Patten'sconstitutional reformof thefunctional constituencyenlargement in 1992, thought that it would damage theSino-British relationsand the stability of Hong Kong before thehandoverin 1997.[6]It was strongly present in thePreparatory Committeehand-picked by Beijing for the establishment of the SAR running up to 1997 and subsequently theProvisional Legislative Council.
Lo Tak-shing, who had been widely perceived as the potential candidate in thefirst Chief Executive electionin 1996 for the highest office in the post-1997 SAR government. As Lo's chance of contesting the post got slimmer in 1996, the Alliance became less active. It was eventually dissolved in 1999.
Election performance[edit]
Legislative Council elections[edit]
| Election | Number of popular votes |
% of popular votes |
GC seats |
FC seats |
EC seats |
Total seats | +/− |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 11,934
|
0,87
|
0 | 1 | — | 1 / 60
|
1
|
| 1995 | – | – | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 / 60
|
0
|
Municipal elections[edit]
| Election | Number of popular votes |
% of popular votes |
UrbCo seats |
RegCo seats |
Total elected seats |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 4,901
|
0.88
|
1 / 32
|
0 / 27
|
1 / 59
|
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^Edward Friedman (May 26, 2019).The Politics Of Democratization: Generalizing East Asian Experiences.Taylor & Francis.p. 155.
All four LDF candidates, as well as two from the ultraconservative New Hong Kong Alliance and one from the Civic Association,...
- ^abcLi, Pang-kwong (1995)."Elections and Political Mobilisation: The Hong Kong 1991 Direct Elections"(PDF):222–7.
{{cite journal}}:Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^Kỷ hiểu phong (3 April 2012)."Chấn anh “Đảng viên” thân phân chung bộc quang ".Hong Kong Economic Journal.
- ^Sing, Ming (2004).Hong Kong's Tortuous Democratization: A Comparative Analysis.Psychology Press. p. 254.
- ^"Đối xử sự phương châm thất vọng điền bắc tuấn thối xuất tân hương cảng liên minh".Hoa kiều nhật báo.1990-01-08.
- ^"Hoàng nghi hoằng nghĩ tại lập cục động nghị yếu bành đốc thu thủ tân cảng minh hàm xúc tạp ngũ nghị viên biểu thái phản chính cải".Sing Tao Daily.6 December 1992.
