Hong Kong Progressive Alliance

Hong Kong Progressive Alliance
Hong Kong Progressive Alliance
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Hong Kong Progressive Alliance

香港協進聯盟
Hong Kong Progressive Alliance 香港協進聯盟
	Pro-Beijing camp
Colors	Red
	Politics of Hong Kong; Political parties; Elections;

The Hong Kong Progressive Alliance (HKPA) was a

Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong

(DAB) in 2005. The DAB then renamed as the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong.

Stances

The party was composed of mainly businessmen and professionals. The party was considered a pro-business conservative

One country-two systems" and the Basic Law

, the mini-constitution of Hong Kong. It advocated handling political and social issues in a moderate, pragmatic and harmonious manner, and the 'progressive' development of democracy, emphasising 'stability, prosperity and progress'.

Party members maintained close relationships with Mainland China authorities. A number of them were deputies to the National People's Congress and members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference of the People's Republic of China.

History

In July 1994, solicitor

New China News Agency which consisted of mostly pro-business factor of the CCP's united front, the Hong Kong Chinese Reform Association, the Federation for the Stability of Hong Kong and the New Hong Kong Alliance in preparation for the 1995 Legislative Council Election.^[2] Ambrose Lau became the only member won the seat in the election through the Election Committee. It merged with the Liberal Democratic Federation

(LDF) in 1997, another pro-business party formed in 1990.

The party won 5 seats in the

Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong

(DAB) in the election). These included 1 seat each from geographical and function constituencies and 2 from election committee.

With the abolition of the election committee LegCo seats in

New Territories East, and began canvassing, but suddenly decided to quit in late July. Tang Siu-tong

also declined to run for re-election.

After that the party decided to let

New Territories West, Chow Ping-tim, was actually a member of HKPA. However, some outsiders think that HKPA was insincere in participating in direct elections and the dispute shows the party came to a decline.^{[citation needed}

] The party lost all the seats in the Legislative Council in the election.

HKPA merged with the

Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong

(DAB) on 16 February 2005.

Members of the party in the Legislative Council

Electoral performance

Legislative Council elections

Election	Number of popular votes	% of popular votes	GC seats	FC seats	EC seats	Total seats	+/−	Position
1995	25,964	2.85	0	0	1	1 / 60	1	7th
1998	–	–	0	2	3	5 / 60	—	4th
2000	25,773	1.95	1	1	2	4 / 60	1	4th
2004	14,174	0.80	0	0	–	0 / 60	4	0

Municipal elections

Election	Number of popular votes	% of popular votes	UrbCo seats	RegCo seats	Total elected seats
1995	5,278	0.95	0 / 32	0 / 27	0 / 59

District Council elections

Election	Number of popular votes	% of popular votes	Total elected seats	+/−
1994	3,288	0.48	1 / 346	0
1999	23,168	2.86	16 / 390	1
2003	29,091	2.77	13 / 400	5

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Rioni, S. G., ed. (2002). Hong Kong in Focus: Political and Economic Issues. Nova Publishers. p. 24.
^ Loh, Christine (2010). Underground Front: The Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong. Hong Kong University Press. p. 305.

External links

Hong Kong Progressive Alliance web site at the Wayback Machine (archive index) (in Chinese)

[Rioni-1] Rioni, S. G., ed. (2002). Hong Kong in Focus: Political and Economic Issues. Nova Publishers. p. 24.

[2] Loh, Christine (2010). Underground Front: The Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong. Hong Kong University Press. p. 305.

[2]

Authority control databases
International	VIAF
National	United States

Stances

History

Members of the party in the Legislative Council

Electoral performance

Legislative Council elections

Municipal elections

District Council elections

See also

References

External links