Politics
Professor Chan is founding member of the Democratic Party. He was elected as Chairman of the New Territories East Branch in 1999, and later became minister of organization affairs and central committee member of the party. He ran for the chairmanship election in 2004 but lost to Lee Wing-tat. He was then elected vice-chairman of the party.
He ran again for the chairmanship in December 2006, but lost to Albert Ho. He did not ran for the vice-chairmanship in the 2006 election. In 2010, the Democratic Party decided to support the government's proposal of the political reform package to expand the numbers of legislative council members from 30 to 35 in geographical constituency and 30 to 35 of functional constituency by adopting the idea of the so-called super-district councillors which will be voted across the territory after nominations by district councillors. All of the young treks (including Gary Fan and Prof. Chan) believed that such proposal could not provide any significant progress towards democratic development in local political agenda and decided to quit the party.
In December 2010, he quit the party to join the Neo Democrats. Prof. Chan is now convener of the Neo Democrats (2011). The Neo Democrats ran an excellent campaign in the 2011 District Council election and won a total of 8 seats.
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