Frederick Fung Kin-kee | |
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馮檢基 | |
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Member of the Legislative Council | |
In office 1 October 2012 – 30 September 2016 | |
Preceded by | New constituency |
Succeeded by | Leung Yiu-chung |
Constituency | District Council (Second) |
In office 1 October 2000 – 30 September 2012 | |
Preceded by | New seat |
Succeeded by | Claudia Mo |
Constituency | Kowloon West |
In office 21 December 1996 – 30 June 1998 (Provisional Legislative Council) | |
In office 9 October 1991 – 30 June 1997 | |
Preceded by | New constituency |
Succeeded by | Replaced by Provisional Legislative Council |
Constituency | Kowloon West |
Chairman of the Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood | |
In office 1989–2007 | |
Preceded by | Ding Lik-kiu |
Succeeded by | Bruce Liu |
Personal details | |
Born | British Hong Kong | 17 March 1953
Political party | Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood (1986–2018) |
Spouse | Chan Man-chi |
Alma mater | Bradford University (BA) |
Occupation | Legislative Councillor |
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Traditional Chinese | 馮檢基 | ||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 冯检基 | ||||||||||||
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Frederick Fung Kin-kee, SBS, JP (Chinese: 馮檢基; born 17 March 1953) is a former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong from 1991 to 1997 and from 2000 to 2016 and the former chairman of the pro-democracy Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood (ADPL) from 1989 to 2007.
Fung pioneered pro-democrats' participation in electoral politics by standing in the 1983 Urban Council election. As well as his role in the Urban Council, he was also a member of the Sham Shui Po District Council. He was first elected to the Legislative Council in the 1991 direct election. He is noted for his middle-of-the-road strategy of "simultaneously negotiating with and confronting" Beijing and joined the Beijing-installed Provisional Legislative Council in 1996 despite the pro-democrats' boycott. Fung was a candidate for the 2012 Chief Executive election but lost in the pro-democracy primary.
He resigned from the ADPL chairmanship after the party's defeat in the 2007 District Council election. He lost his Sham Shui Po District Council seat in 2015 and lost his re-election to the Legislative Council in 2016. Fung contested in the pro-democracy primary for the March 2018 Kowloon West by-election, but lost to Yiu Chung-yim. He subsequently declined to be a backup candidate for Yiu. He also drew the ire of former allies from the pro-democracy camp by standing in the November Kowloon West by-election, in a spoiler role against the camp's chosen candidate, Lee Cheuk-yan.