| Alan Leong Kah-kit | |||||||||||||||
| Native Name Lang: | zh-hk | ||||||||||||||
| Honorific-Suffix: | SC | ||||||||||||||
| Office: | Chairperson of the Civic Party | ||||||||||||||
| Leader: | Alvin Yeung | ||||||||||||||
| Term Start: | 19 November 2016 | ||||||||||||||
| Term End: | 27 May 2023 | ||||||||||||||
| Predecessor: | Audrey Eu | ||||||||||||||
| Successor: | Position dissolved | ||||||||||||||
| Office1: | Leader of the Civic Party | ||||||||||||||
| Term Start1: | 8 January 2011 | ||||||||||||||
| Term End1: | 30 September 2016 | ||||||||||||||
| Predecessor1: | Audrey Eu | ||||||||||||||
| Successor1: | Alvin Yeung | ||||||||||||||
| Office2: | Member of the Legislative Council | ||||||||||||||
| Constituency2: | Kowloon East | ||||||||||||||
| Predecessor2: | New seat | ||||||||||||||
| Successor2: | Jeremy Tam | ||||||||||||||
| Term Start2: | 1 October 2004 | ||||||||||||||
| Term End2: | 30 September 2016 | ||||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 1958 2, df=yes | ||||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | British Hong Kong | ||||||||||||||
| Alma Mater: | La Salle Primary School Wah Yan College, Kowloon University of Hong Kong Hughes Hall, Cambridge | ||||||||||||||
| Party: | Civic Party | ||||||||||||||
| Spouse: | Carol Chen Suk-yi | ||||||||||||||
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Alan Leong Kah-kit[1] (; born 22 February 1958), SC is a former member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council, representing the Kowloon East geographical constituency and former chairman of the now-disbanded Civic Party. He was also vice-chairperson of the Independent Police Complaints Council.
Leong graduated with an LLB from the University of Hong Kong and an LLM from Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge. He was chairman of Hong Kong Bar Association from 2001 to 2003.
As chairperson of Hong Kong Bar Association, he mobilised many barristers to participate in the July 1 protests. He won a seat in the Legislative Council in the 2004 election.
In January 2011, Leong was elected the second leader of the Civic Party, replacing Audrey Eu.[2]
Leong was nominated by the Civic Party as its party candidate for the Chief Executive election in 2007. He was also supported by the pan-democrats, including the Democratic Party.
Leong later secured 132 nominations and became the first Pan-democracy camp candidate to succeed in joining the Chief Executive election. In the end Leong lost to Donald Tsang in the CE election on 25 March 2007, gaining 123 votes from the 800-member Election Committee.
See main article: 2010 Hong Kong by-election. In January 2010, Leong and other four lawmakers, Albert Chan, Tanya Chan, Leung Kwok-hung and Wong Yuk-man resigned their seats to force by-elections, in which they all stood, which they called on to be treated as a referendum to press the Chinese Central Government into allowing universal suffrage in Hong Kong.[3] On 16 May 2010, he was re-elected as a lawmaker in the by-election.[4]
In a public forum held between the HKU president and college faculties and students dated July 18, 2019 during 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests, Leong claimed that "Violence may sometime be THE solution to a problem", which was refuted by the President Xiang Zhang.[5]
After the Civic Party failed to form a new executive committee in December 2022, Leong stated the party would be dissolved in 2023. He also announced his intention to retire from politics after the party's dissolution, saying he was "old enough to retire as a politician".[6]
Leong is married with three children.