Lo Kin-hei

Lo Kin-hei
Lo Kin-hei
	羅健熙
Chairman of the Democratic Party
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 6 December 2020
Preceded by	Wu Chi-wai
Vice-Chairman of the Democratic Party
	In office; 16 December 2012 – 6 December 2020
Chairperson	Emily Lau; Wu Chi-wai
Preceded by	Emily Lau; Sin Chung-kai
Succeeded by	Lam Cheuk-ting; Edith Leung
Member of the Southern District Council
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 1 January 2012
Preceded by	Wong Che-ngai
Constituency	Lei Tung II
Personal details
Born	1 June 1984; Hong Kong
Political party	Democratic Party
Alma mater	University of Hong Kong (BSW)
Occupation	Social worker; District councillor

Lo Kin-hei (Chinese: 羅健熙; born 1 June 1984) is the Chairman of the Democratic Party and Southern District Council. He has been a Southern District Councillor for Lei Tung II constituency since 2012.

Career

Born in 1984, Lo graduated from the University of Hong Kong with the Bachelor of Social Work in 2006.[1][2] He is a registered social worker.[3] He joined the Democratic Party and first contested in the 2007 District Council elections, contesting in the Lei Tung II constituency covering the Lei Tung Estate in Ap Lei Chau.[1] He lost in a narrow margin of 27 votes. He contested in the same constituency in the next District Council elections in 2011 and succeeded in taking a seat with 2,346 votes.[4]

He was also member of the pan-democratic candidate list "Demo-Social 60" in the 2011 Election Committee Subsector election for the Social Welfare Subsector and was elected.

In the party leadership election in December 2012, Lo was elected as Vice-Chairman with his senior Richard Tsoi, becoming the youngest Vice-Chairman in party's history.

After the 2019 District Council election, Lo called the vote in effect a “vote of no-confidence” in the political establishment, including Hong Kong’s leader, Carrie Lam, and key Chinese officials such as Zhang Xiaoming, head of the State Council’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office.[5]

On 15 July 2020, Lo was arrested at his home, and later released on bail, for having participated in an unauthorized protest outside Hong Kong Polytechnic University on 18 November 2019. The university campus had been the venue of major confrontations between protesters and police at that time. Lo and four others were arrested on the same day in relation to the protest, all of whom were scheduled to appear before the courts on 21 August.[6]

References

Tsoi, Grace (17 November 2011). "The Future of the Democratic Party".
"LO Kin Hei". The Democratic Party.
"Member Details of Southern District Council". Southern District Council. Archived from the original on 2014-02-03. Retrieved 2014-01-22.
"2011 District Councils Election - Election Results (Southern)". www.elections.gov.hk. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
"Fresh headache for China after Hong Kong democrats rout pro-Beijing candidates". Reuters. 25 November 2019. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
Ho, Kelly (15 July 2020). "Hong Kong Democratic Party vice-chair Lo Kin-hei arrested for protest last November". Hong Kong Free Press. Retrieved 15 July 2020.

Political offices
Preceded by Wong Che-ngai	Member of Southern District Council Representative for Lei Tung II 2012–present	Incumbent
Preceded by Chu Ching-hong	Chairman of Southern District Council 2020–present	Incumbent
Party political offices
Preceded by Emily Lau Sin Chung-kai	Vice Chairperson of Democratic Party 2012–2020 Served alongside: Richard Tsoi, Andrew Wan, Li Wing-shing	Succeeded by Lam Cheuk-ting Edith Leung
Preceded by Wu Chi-wai	Chairperson of Democratic Party 2020–present	Incumbent

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[HK_Magazine-1] Tsoi, Grace (17 November 2011). "The Future of the Democratic Party".

[2] "LO Kin Hei". The Democratic Party.

[3] "Member Details of Southern District Council". Southern District Council. Archived from the original on 2014-02-03. Retrieved 2014-01-22.

[4] "2011 District Councils Election - Election Results (Southern)". www.elections.gov.hk. Retrieved 25 November 2019.

[5] "Fresh headache for China after Hong Kong democrats rout pro-Beijing candidates". Reuters. 25 November 2019. Retrieved 25 November 2019.

[6] Ho, Kelly (15 July 2020). "Hong Kong Democratic Party vice-chair Lo Kin-hei arrested for protest last November". Hong Kong Free Press. Retrieved 15 July 2020.