Fernando Cheung
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Dr Fernando Cheung Chiu Hung (Traditional Chinese: 張超雄) is a Hong Kong legislator. He is also the vice-chairman of the Civic Party.
He was born in Macau on February 23, 1957, with family roots in Jiangmen, Guangdong. He worked in the United States from 1988, and became a U.S. citizen. He graduated as a doctor in the University of California, Berkeley in 1990. He served as the head of an Asian rights organization (屋崙華人服務社) in San Francisco. 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 left wing pro-democrats. He joined the functional constituency of social welfare of the Legislative Council in June, 2004. He defeated the second Cheung Kwok-chu by only 64 votes. After he won the election, he refused to visit Beijing on September 30, 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. On November 22, 2004, he established a Group of Research on The Non-official Referendum on Universal Suffrage for 2007 Chief Executive Elections in HKSAR.
| Preceded by: Law Chi Kwong |
Member of the Legislative Council (Social Service Functional Constituency) 2004–present |
Succeeded by: incumbent |
