League of Social Democrats
| 社會 民主 連線 League of Social Democrats League of Social Democrats |
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| Party leader |
Raphael Wong (as of June 2020) 黃浩銘 |
| Secretary General |
Avery Ng 吳文 遠 |
| Deputy Chairman | Jimmy Sham, Tsz-kit (external matter ) 岑子杰 ( 外務 ) Leung, Kwok-hung (internal matter ) 梁國雄 ( 內務 ) |
| Treasurer | Michael Mak, Kwok-fung 麥 國 風 |
| founding | October 1, 2006 |
| Headquarters | Flat B2, 4 / F, Tai Cheong Factory Building, 3 Wing Ming Street, Cheung Sha Wan , Kowloon |
| Alignment |
Social democracy Democratic socialism Progressivism Left populism Direct democracy Pro-democracy camp |
| Colours) | red |
| Parliament seats |
0/2980 |
| Legislative Council |
0/70 |
| District Councils |
2/458 |
| Number of members | approx. 700 (2011) |
| Website | www.lsd.org.hk |
The League of Social Democrats , LSD for short ( Chinese 社會 民主 連線 / 社会 民主 连线 - "League of Social Democrats, Social Democratic League, Federation of Social Democrats", short 社 民 連 / 社 民 连 ) is a political party in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region with social democratic and strongly pro-democratic orientation.
history
The party was founded in 2006 by social democratic activists within the pro-democracy camp and positions itself as a grassroots and powerful opposition party that is mainly active on the streets, at demonstrations and in parliamentary disputes.
The League of Social Democrats reached its political climax in the 2008 election for the Legislative Council , in which it received around 10 percent of the vote and three seats in parliament.
In 2010, the party launched the Five Constituencies Referendum with the Civic Party to put pressure on the Hong Kong government to introduce universal suffrage for the 2012 election of the Chief Executive. The referendum took the form of a deliberate by-election of one candidate in each of the five geographic constituencies so that all Hong Kong citizens could participate. The five resigned MPs were all re-elected, including all three MPs from the League of Social Democrats. However, less than 20 percent of eligible voters took part in the election and the unofficial referendum had no effect.
The largest pro-democracy party, the Democratic Party , reached a compromise with the government to carry out the controversial project to reorganize the constituencies. Without the votes of the Democratic Party, the constitution could not have been changed. In the course of this, two of the then three members of the League of Social Democrats left the party and founded the People Power party in a dispute with the League of Social Democrats over whether to oppose the Democratic Party, which as part of the pro-democracy camp is actually a strategic one Partner in elections is to compete in the 2011 elections to the District Councils.
Later, however, the members of the League of Social Democrats and People Power cooperated again in the Legislative Council and obstructed in the Hong Kong Parliament. In the election for the Legislative Council in 2016, both parties cooperated in an electoral alliance and together got two seats. Both parties won one constituency each, and Leung Kwok-hung of the League of Social Democrats was re-elected.
The party's MP, Leung Kwok-hung, wanted to be a candidate for the election of the Chief Executive in 2017, in which only members of an election committee are allowed to participate. However, he did not manage to submit the required number of signatures from one percent of the eligible population .
Leung Kwok-hung was expelled from parliament in 2017, along with other pro-democracy and localist MPs, for disregarding the taking of the oath, so that the League of Social Democrats currently has no seats in parliament.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Infighting threatens pro-democracy camp . In: South China Morning Post . ( scmp.com [accessed September 18, 2018]).
- ↑ 600 支持者 出席 集 思 會 黃毓民 、 陳 偉業 率 200 人 退出 社 民 連. Retrieved September 18, 2018 .
- ^ 'Long Hair' makes a U-turn to join leadership race . In: South China Morning Post . ( scmp.com [accessed September 18, 2018]).
- ↑ More Liberal Hong Kong Lawmakers Lose Their Seats. Retrieved September 18, 2018 .