Breakfast Group
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Professional Forum
專業會議 |
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|---|---|
| Founded | 8 October 2008 |
| Dissolved | 7 October 2012 |
| Merged into | Business and Professionals Alliance |
| Ideology | Conservatism |
| Political position | Centre-right |
| Regional affiliation | Pro-Beijing camp |
Professional Forum (Chinese: 專業會議), formerly known as the Breakfast Group (Chinese: 早餐派) and The Alliance (Chinese: 泛聯盟), is a loose political group of the independent politicians in the Legislative Council in Hong Kong. In October 2012, the group formed the Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong (BPA) with other LegCo members from the pro-business sectors.
The Breakfast Group was set up in 1991 in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong by Simon Ip Sik-on and Eric Li Ka-cheung and consisting of four other legislators elected through the functional constituencies or appointed by the Governor of Hong Kong. Representing their each professional sectors' interests, they had no clear political affiliations and was considered as relatively moderate and independent and acted as a third force between pro-democracy and pro-Beijing camps, despite it was largely pro-government.
In 1994, the Breakfast Group members Simon Ip and Martin Gilbert Barrow who said they would voted for the Liberal Party's amendment on Chris Patten's constitutional reform proposals however abstained at last which resulted in the defeat of the Liberals' amendment, while Timothy Ha Wing-ho voted against the amendment and voted for Patten's proposals.
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