Professionals Guild

The Professionals Guild (Chinese: 專業議政) is a pro-democracy parliamentary group in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong formed in 2016.

Professionals Guild

專業議政
ConvenorDennis Kwok (Civic)
Founded26 September 2016 (2016-09-26)
IdeologyLiberalism (Hong Kong)
Political positionCentre
Regional affiliationPro-democracy camp
Legislative Council
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Website
www.facebook.com/pg/professionalsguild/

The group was formed in 2016 by six pro-democracy functional constituency legislators after the 2016 Legislative Council election, which saw the pro-democrats increased their seats in the professional sectors. It held seven seats in the legislature at its peak with Dennis Kwok of the Legal constituency, Kenneth Leung of Accountancy, Charles Mok of Information Technology, Edward Yiu of Architectural, Surveying, Planning and Landscape, Ip Kin-yuen of Education, Shiu Ka-chun of Social Welfare and Joseph Lee of Health Services.[1] It became one of the four pro-democracy parliamentary groups in the Legislative Council, the others were namely the Democratic Party, Civic Party and Coucil Front formed by directly elected pro-democracy individuals.[2]

One of the major tasks of the group was coordinating the pro-democracy "Democrats 300+" election campaign in the 2016 Election Committee Subsector elections. The victory in the Legislative Council functional constituencies in the 2016 election encouraged the pro-democrats to take a more progressive strategy in the professional sector, in which the pro-democrats traditionally had more advantages.[3][4]

Legco representatives
ConstituencyMemberAffiliation
LegalDennis Kwok (convenor)Civic
EducationIp Kin-yuenPTU
AccountancyKenneth LeungProfessional Commons
Health ServicesJoseph LeeIndependent
Social WelfareShiu Ka-chunIndependent
Information TechnologyCharles MokProfessional Commons

See also

References
  1. 隔牆有耳：李國麟加盟專業議政 2016-10-19 蘋果日報
  2. "【專欄】泛民召集人換屆 楊岳橋接任？". 頭條日報. 2019-08-12.
  3. 專業議政與民主派專業界別開會 協調選委會選舉
  4. "Hong Kong's pan-democrats hope to play 'kingmaker' in election to choose city's next leader". South China Morning Post. 26 September 2016.
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