Civic party
| 公民 黨 Civic Party Civic Party |
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| Party leader |
Alvin Yeung ( 楊 岳 橋 ) (Leader) Alan Leong ( 梁家傑 ) (Chairman) |
| founding | March 19, 2006 |
| Headquarters | Unit 202, 2 / F, Block B, Sea View Estate, 4-6 Watson Road, North Point, Hong Kong , China 
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| Youth organization | Young Civics |
| Alignment |
Left-wing liberalism, constitutionalism, pro-democracy camp |
| Colours) | violet |
| Legislative Council |
5/70 |
| District Councils |
32/458 |
| Number of members | approx. 500 (2017) |
| Website | www.civicparty.hk |
The Civic Party is a pro-democracy political party in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region with a left-liberal orientation. After the Democratic Party , it is the second largest party in the pro-democracy camp .
The party emerged from the Article 45 Concern Group , a political group that formed in 2003 during the protests against the anti- subversion paragraph, Article 23 of the Hong Kong Basic Law, and, in accordance with Article 45 of the Hong Kong Basic Law, the direct election of the Chief Executive of Hong Kong has requested. Even today, after this political grouping founded the Civic Party on March 19, 2006, this political goal is a cornerstone of the party's political orientation.
history
After the Article 45 Concern Group was able to provide four MPs after the election of the Hong Kong Legislative Council in 2004 , all of whom were barristers , they founded the Civic Party on March 19, 2006 with two other MPs.
In the 2007 Hong Kong Chief Executive election , the Civic Party nominated its pro-democracy opposition candidate, Alan Leong, against the chief executive, Donald Tsang . With almost 16%, Alan Leong was able to achieve a relatively large success for a candidate from the pro-democracy camp in the election committee dominated by the pro-Beijing camp .
In 2010 the Civic Party initiated a referendum together with the League of Social Democrats . MPs from one of the two parties resigned from the Legislative Council , a total of always one MP from each geographical constituency , which made a by-election necessary. In these by-elections, a new member had to be elected in each geographical constituency. The resigned MPs ran again. A referendum was presented by the Civic Party and League of Social Democrats in such a way that the re-election of MPs to approve the referendum demand would mean direct election of the chief executive. Due to the boycott of these deliberately triggered new elections by the pro-Beijing camp - among other things due to the fear of suffering a defeat - the clear re-elections were only partially meaningful. The turnout was a good 17%. More moderate pro-democracy parties like the Democratic Party also did not support the unofficial referendum.
In the 2012 election of the Hong Kong Legislative Council , the Civic Party outperformed the Democratic Party, which had been the clear flagship party of the pro-democracy camp until then, and won six seats just like the Democratic Party. In the 2016 election of the Hong Kong Legislative Council , the Civic Party again achieved a larger share of the vote than the Democratic Party, despite losses, but again won 6 seats, while the Democratic Party increased its number of seats to seven.
On November 14, 2016, the MP Claudia Mo resigned from the party, as she was increasingly positioning herself locally with her non-partisan political group HK First and thus increasingly lost support from the Civic Party, which speaks out against Hong Kong's aspirations for independence.
After the Civic Party has performed relatively poorly in the district council elections since its foundation , it was able to achieve clear success in the local elections in Hong Kong in 2019 with 32 seats won, corresponding to the landslide victory of the pro-democracy camp.
Positions
One of the most important demands of the Civic Party is the desire to promote the democratic political system in Hong Kong, which is to be based on universal suffrage in exclusively direct elections , the rule of law , constitutionalism , civil liberties and equal opportunities for all people in Hong Kong.
In addition, the Civic Party sees its mission in civic education and in the implementation of community projects for the benefit of the people of Hong Kong and social cohesion.
In the past, the Civic Party's campaign demands included the introduction of a statutory minimum wage and the creation of competition law .
For better structuring, a sustainably successful community of the party in networking with civil society and extra-parliamentary pro-democratic groups should be built and promoted.
Within the pro-democracy camp, the Civic Party is more of a moderate party. The Civic Party rejects demands from localist parties that consider Hong Kong's independence to be necessary for real democratization . In line with its constitutional claims, it does not oppose the Basic Law of Hong Kong , but at the same time works with great commitment for the full implementation of the Basic Law of Hong Kong with regard to direct election in the election of the Chief Executive.
The Civic Party argues clearer and more radical than the moderate Democratic Party and justified in contrast to this the rejection of the independence of Hong Kong not from a Sino-patriotic standpoint, but mostly from the written down in the Basic Law of Hong Kong conditions, according to the Hong Kong international law to People's Republic of China belongs.
organization
The party is headed by a leader and a chairperson. The post of chairperson has always been filled with an older, experienced member and can therefore be compared with the office of honorary chairman . So far, all former leaders have also been chairpersons of the party.
Previous leaders have been Audrey Eu between 2006 and 2011, Alan Leong between 2011 and 2016 and Alvin Yeung since 2016.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Civic Party: Moving from Fan Club to Political Force . 09HONGKONG558_a. China Hong Kong, March 25, 2009 ( wikileaks.org [accessed May 12, 2020]).
- ^ The Third Term Chief Executive Election - Election Result. Retrieved May 12, 2020 .
- ↑ Hong Kong 'democracy' by election . May 15, 2010 ( bbc.co.uk [accessed May 12, 2020]).
- ↑ Don't call it quits. In: The Standard. June 29, 2011, accessed June 29, 2011 .
- ↑ Hong Kong lawmaker Claudia Mo resigns from Civic Party citing 'differences' over localism and other issues. November 14, 2016, accessed May 12, 2020 .
- ^ Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Civic Party Limited by guarantee, and not having a share capital. Retrieved May 7, 2006 .
- ^ The political framework of Hong Kong. Retrieved May 13, 2020 (English).