Chan Hok-fung explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Honourable
Chan Hok-fung
Native Name Lang:zh-hk
Office:Member of the Legislative Council
Term Start:1 January 2022
Predecessor:Constituency created
Constituency:Hong Kong Island West
Office1:Vice-chairperson of the Central and Western District Council
Term Start1:5 January 2012
Term End1:31 December 2019
Predecessor1:Stephen Chan
Successor1:Victor Yeung
Office2:Member of the Central and Western District Council
Term Start2:1 January 2008
Term End2:31 December 2019
Predecessor2:Raymond Yeung
Successor2:Cherry Wong
Constituency2:Kennedy Town & Mount Davis
Party:DAB
Educate:Hon Wah College
Residence:Kennedy Town[1]

Chan Hok-Fung is a Pro-Beijing DAB Hong Kong politician who was a member of Central and Western District Council, and was once the vice-chairman of the council,[2] until losing re-election in the 2019 Hong Kong local elections.

Election campaign experience

Since 2007, Chan has been running, and elected in Hong Kong local elections, until being defeated in 2019. Chan has also been participating the party primaries of 2020 Hong Kong Legislative Election, seeking to run the election on behalf of DAB in Hong Kong Island constituency.[3]

Controversies

Defamation of Democratic district councilor Cheng Lai-King

Democratic district councilor Cheng Lai-king was arrested on 26 March 2020 for forwarding information of the police officers who was accused of shooting the eye of an Indonesian female journalist during the 2019 September global anti-totalitarian march in Hong Kong. Some members of the Democratic Party, including lawmaker Ted Hui, went to bail, but because the police temporarily requested an increase in bail, they resorted to count the bail immediately outside the police station. However, Chan uploaded a photo on social media accusing Hui for paying the protesters.[4] [5] The accusation of Chan was disproved by Sam Yip, a pro-democracy Central and Western District Council member. The Democratic Party responded by challenging that the photo was taken by the police in the police station, and suspected if the police had facilitated the distribution of rumours.[6]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: G.N. (E.) 52 of 2015. Hong Kong Gazette.
  2. News: 中西區區議會議員資料. zh-hant.
  3. Web site: 【立會選舉】民建聯初選名單爭崩頭 新界大混戰 鄭泳舜「獨贏」 . 25 February 2020 . 2020-03-29.
  4. Web site: 隔牆有耳:白鴿黨籌保釋金當派錢 偷拍兼老屈 PoPo煽上煽 - 李八方. Apple Daily 蘋果日報. zh-hk. 2020-03-28. 2020-03-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20200326224314/https://hk.appledaily.com/local/20200327/3N6NUCSEBH676XNJUIE5TYVAJE/. dead.
  5. Web site: 【Emily】夾錢保釋琼姐 民建聯當示威派錢 疑警拍片外傳 民主黨質疑煽動謠言 - 20200327 - 港聞. 明報新聞網 - 每日明報 daily news. zh-hant. 2020-03-28.
  6. Web site: 民主黨 The Democratic Party. www.facebook.com. en. 2020-03-28.