Professionals Guild

The Professionals Guild (Chinese: 專業議政) is a pro-democracy parliamentary group in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong formed in 2016.

Professionals Guild

專業議政
ConvenorDennis Kwok (Civic)
Founded26 September 2016 (2016-09-26)
IdeologyLiberalism (Hong Kong)
Political positionCentre
Regional affiliationPro-democracy camp
Legislative Council
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Website
www.facebook.com/pg/professionalsguild/

The group was formed in 2016 by six pro-democracy functional constituency legislators after the 2016 Legislative Council election, which saw the pro-democrats increased their seats in the professional sectors. It held seven seats in the legislature at its peak with Dennis Kwok of the Legal constituency, Kenneth Leung of Accountancy, Charles Mok of Information Technology, Edward Yiu of Architectural, Surveying, Planning and Landscape, Ip Kin-yuen of Education, Shiu Ka-chun of Social Welfare and Joseph Lee of Health Services.[1] It became one of the four pro-democracy parliamentary groups in the Legislative Council, the others being the Democratic Party, Civic Party and Council Front formed by directly elected pro-democracy individuals.[2]

One of the major tasks of the group was coordinating the pro-democracy "Democrats 300+" election campaign in the 2016 Election Committee Subsector elections. The victory in the Legislative Council functional constituencies in the 2016 election encouraged the pro-democrats to take a more progressive strategy in the professional sector, in which the pro-democrats traditionally had more advantages.[3][4]

Dennis Kwok and Kenneth Leung were dismissed from the LegCo on 11 November 2020, following the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress decision that LegCo Members should be disqualified if they support Hong Kong independence, refuse to acknowledge China's sovereignty, ask foreign forces to interfere in the city's affairs or in other ways threaten national security. Kwok and Leung were amongst 4 LegCo members who were dismissed; all are considered moderates and have never publicly supported Hong Kong independence. Dennis Kwok said "If observing due process and fighting for democracy can lead to being disqualified, it [disqualification] will be my honour," Following this 15 other pro-democracy LegCo members have resigned. [5]

Legco representatives

No representative in the LegCo after all of its members resigned on 12 November 2020.

See also

References
  1. 隔牆有耳：李國麟加盟專業議政 2016-10-19 蘋果日報
  2. "【專欄】泛民召集人換屆 楊岳橋接任？". 頭條日報. 2019-08-12.
  3. 專業議政與民主派專業界別開會 協調選委會選舉
  4. "Hong Kong's pan-democrats hope to play 'kingmaker' in election to choose city's next leader". South China Morning Post. 26 September 2016.
  5. "Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmakers resign after China ruling". BBC News. 2020-11-11. Retrieved 2020-11-12.
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