New Hong Kong Alliance

New Hong Kong Alliance
新香港聯盟
Chairman Wai Kee-shun
General Secretary Lo Tak-shing
Founded May 1989
Dissolved 1999
Ideology Conservatism
Elitism
Political position Centre-right
Regional affiliation Pro-Beijing camp
Colors Red
Politics of Hong Kong
Political parties
Elections

The New Hong Kong Alliance (NHKA) (Chinese: 新香港聯盟, abbreviated 新港盟) was a pro-Beijing conservative political organisation in Hong Kong in the 1990s mostly composed of businessmen and professionals.

History

It was founded by the minority wing of the Group of 89, the conservative faction in the Hong Kong Basic Law Drafting Committee (BLDC) and Consultative Committee (BLCC), as well as Legislative Council members, District Board members, civil servants, and members from the Progressive Hong Kong Society. Led by Lo Tak-shing, the former Executive Council and Legislative Council member and subsequently the chairman of the BLCC Standing Commitee, the core founding members included Raymond Wu wai-yung, Maria Tam Wai-chu, Kan Fook-yee, Chan Wing-kee, Lee Jung-kong, Veronica Cha, Philip Kwok Chi-kuen and Peter Wong Hong-yuen, and was supported by Lo's cousin Henry Litton, Tso Wung-Wai, Elsie Leung and the later Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying.[1]

For the future political structure of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region after 1997 during in the drafting of the Basic 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 power vis-a-vis the other. The Chief Executive would not be directly elected before 2005.[2]

It opposed to the last Governor Chris Patten's constitutional reform of the functional constituency enlargement in 1992, thought that it would damage the Sino-British relations and the stability of Hong Kong before the handover in 1997.[3]

The Alliance won 1 seat in the 1991 election of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, Philip Wong in the Commercial (Second) functional constituency. Ronnie Wong Man-chiu and Winnie Cheung Wai-sun contested the Island West constituency on a joint-ticket but were beaten by the United Democrats team of Yeung Sum and Huang Chen-ya. Another Legislative Councillor of the group Howard Young was also member of the Liberal Party and the Liberal Democratic Federation of Hong Kong. It was strongly present in the Preparatory Committee hand-picked by Beijing for the establishment of the SAR running up to 1997. It was dissolved in 1999.

Election performance

Legislative Council elections

Election Number of
popular votes		 % of
popular votes		 GC
seats		 FC
seats		 EC
seats		 Total seats +/−
1991 11,934Steady 0,87Steady 0 1 —
1 / 60
 N/A
1995 N/A N/A 0 1 0
1 / 60
 N/A

Municipal elections

Election Number of
popular votes		 % of
popular votes		 UrbCo
seats		 RegCo
seats		 Total
elected seats
1995 4,901Steady 0.88Steady
1 / 32
0 / 27
1 / 59

See also

References

  1. ↑ 紀曉風 (3 April 2012). "振英「黨員」身份終曝光". Hong Kong Economic Journal.
  2. ↑ Sing, Ming (2004). Hong Kong's Tortuous Democratization: A Comparative Analysis. Psychology Press. p. 254.
  3. ↑ "黃宜弘擬在立局動議要彭督收手 新港盟函促卅五議員表態反政改". Sing Tao Daily. 6 December 1992.

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