Politics
The former President Tam Yiu-chung had hold the seat in Legco for the Labour since 1985. From April 2002, the HKFTU has been led by President Cheng Yiu-tong, Member of Exco and former Member of LegCo. The President was replaced by Lam Suk-yee in April 2012. The HKFTU became active in elections since the handover of Hong Kong.
From 2004 to 2008, four members of the HKFTU were legislators:
- Tam Yiu Chung (ran under DAB banner)
- Chan Yuen Han (ran under both DAB and HKFTU banners)
- Kwong Chi Kin (ran under HKFTU banner)
- Wong Kwok Hing (ran under HKFTU banner)
From 2008 to 2012, five members of the HKFTU were legislators:
- Tam Yiu Chung (ran under DAB banner)
- Wong Kwok-hing (ran under both DAB and HKFTU banners)
- Wong Kwok-kin (ran under HKFTU banner)
- Ip Wai-ming (ran under HKFTU banner)
- Pan Pey-chyou (ran under HKFTU banner)
There are currently 33 HKFTU members elected on the District Councils.
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts. Their measures are half measures and makeshifts merely. They put off the day of settlement, and meanwhile the debt accumulates.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The word “revolution” itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the “revolution” of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the “revolving door” of a politics which has “liberated” women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country—and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.”
—Charles Krauthammer (b. 1950)