Legislative Council
In 2008, he ran in the 2008 Hong Kong Legislative election, for a seat in the Kowloon West constituency, on a platform of "Without struggle there is no change"; he introduced a number of innovative actions to Hong Kong politics. On 8 September 2008, he successfully gained a seat in the Legislative Council with the second highest number of votes in his constituency.
Read more about this topic: Raymond Wong (politician)
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“However much we may differ in the choice of the measures which should guide the administration of the government, there can be but little doubt in the minds of those who are really friendly to the republican features of our system that one of its most important securities consists in the separation of the legislative and executive powers at the same time that each is acknowledged to be supreme, in the will of the people constitutionally expressed.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)
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