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Hong Kong’s novice lawmakers: Legco’s odd man out pledges to pursue democratic reform, work with pro-establishment camp to improve welfare services

  • Tik Chi-yuen hopes to ensure government listens to feedback on Article 23 national security law
  • Lawmaker wants more welfare services for greying city’s elderly, disabled and others in need

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Tik Chi-yuen, Hong Kong’s only centrist lawmaker. Photo: Yik Yeung-man
In the first of a six-part series on Hong Kong’s novice lawmakers, the Post meets Tik Chi-yuen, the only non-establishment candidate elected to the Legislative Council.
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Hong Kong’s only centrist lawmaker has pledged to press the authorities to push forward democratic reforms and improve social welfare services to help residents regain hope for the city’s future.

Tik Chi-yuen, 64, chairman of the Third Side party and the only non-establishment candidate to win a seat in the Legislative Council election on December 19, also urged the administration to heed Hongkongers’ views when a public consultation is held on the city’s national security legislation.

This is the veteran politician’s first time in Legco since Hong Kong returned to China in 1997. He was a member of the legislature from 1991 to 1995, when the city was still a British colony.

Tik Chi-yuen (right) was a member of the legislature from 1991 to 1995, when the city was still a British colony. Photo: SCMP
Tik Chi-yuen (right) was a member of the legislature from 1991 to 1995, when the city was still a British colony. Photo: SCMP

A founding member of the Democratic Party and its vice-chairman from 2006 to 2008, he quit in 2015, co-founded Third Side the following year and was elected a lawmaker in the social welfare sector last month.

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