Andrew To Kwan-hang
| Andrew To Kwan-hang | |
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| 陶君行 | |
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| Chairman of the League of Social Democrats | |
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In office 1 February 2010 – 8 November 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Wong Yuk-man |
| Succeeded by | Tang Tsui-chung (acting) |
| Member of the Wong Tai Sin District Council | |
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In office 1 April 1991 – 31 December 2011 |
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| Secretary-General of the Hong Kong Federation of Students | |
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In office 1989–1990 |
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| Succeeded by | Richard Tsoi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 February 1966 |
| Political party |
United Democrats (1990–94) Democratic Party (1994–2002) Social Democratic Forum (2000–02) The Frontier (2002–06) League of Social Democrats (2006–present) |
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| Alma mater |
La Salle Primary School La Salle College Lingnan University |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
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| Traditional Chinese | 陶君行 | ||||||||
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| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Tòuh Gwān hàhng |
| Jyutping | Tou4 Gwan1 hang4 |
Andrew To Kwan-hang (Chinese: 陶君行; born 7 February 1966) is a Hong Kong politician and activist. He is the former chairman of the League of Social Democrats and former member of the Wong Tai Sin District Council.
Of Hakka ancestry, To was born in Hong Kong in 1966 and was raised in Choi Hung Estate. He was educated at the La Salle Primary School and the La Salle College. He was the president of the student union when he attended the Lingnan College and was the secretary-general of the Hong Kong Federation of Students from 1989 to 1990. During the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 and he once went to Beijing to join the hunger strike.
After the protest, he became the founding member of the United Democrats of Hong Kong, the united front of the pro-democracy forces in Hong Kong. In the 1991 District Board election, he became the youngest person to be elected to the Wong Tai Sin District Board, which he kept the position until 2011 when he was ousted.
He represented the radical "Young Turks" faction in the Democratic Party, after it merged the United Democrats and the moderate Meeting Point, against the Meeting Point faction. In December 1998, he staged a successful coup d'état in the party leadership election, which promptly brought the party into a phase of factional struggle. The Young Turks formed their own list of about ten candidates to run for the Central Committee and nominated Lau Chin-shek to run for vice-chairman against the former Meeting Point chairman Anthony Cheung. Hoping to make Lau as their factional leader, he would lead the party from the Meeting Point faction's pro-middle class, pro-laissez-faire and pro-Beijing positions to a more pro-grassroots position. Although Lau was elected vice-chairman, he resigned after the election.
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