{"id":11808,"date":"2017-11-24T14:07:26","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T06:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/?p=11808"},"modified":"2017-11-25T00:01:14","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T16:01:14","slug":"tung-wah-district-council-byelection-bonnie-ng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/2017\/11\/tung-wah-district-council-byelection-bonnie-ng\/","title":{"rendered":"Pan-dems’ candidate Bonnie Ng Hoi-yan finds herself under attack from two sides in Tung Wah by-election"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Elaine Ng<\/strong><\/p>\n

T<\/span>he Democratic Party\u2019s Bonnie Ng Hoi-yan is playing down her chances of winning in the Central and Western District Council by-election for the Tung Wah constituency. Ng says she\u2019s under \u201cattack from both sides\u201d \u2013 the two sides being school principal Lui Kam-keung and administrator Olivia Lau Shu-yin.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ng is the only acknowledged pan-democrat out of the three candidates vying for the seat left vacant by the DAB\u2019s Kathy Siu Ka-yi who was appointed political assistant to the Chief Secretary in August.<\/span><\/p>\n

Both of her rivals claim to be independents but pan-democrats believe Lui is backed by the pro-establishment camp. As for Lau, she describes herself as a member of the \u201cprogressive democratic camp\u201d in her campaign literature, but some pan-democrats suspect she is taking part in the race to \u2018split votes\u2019 from Ng. In last year\u2019s District Council Election, Lau is said to have snatched 148 votes from the pan-democratic camp in the Ma Hang Chung Constituency.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ng did not wish to speculate on Lau\u2019s motives, but she accused Lau and Lui of being \u201cpseudo-independent\u201d and \u201cpseudo-democratic\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Although the pro-establishment camp won the Tung Wah seat in 2011 and 2015, Ng says she\u2019s confident that voters are aware of her contributions in the largely middle-class Sheung Wan district and of her clear political stance. She adds she is the \u201conly candidate who has promised to serve the community on a full-time basis\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ng says that as a senior community development officer for the Democratic Party, she has been involved in District Council affairs over the past 11 years. She is also a co-opted member of the Central and Western District Council Transport and Traffic Committee. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If elected, Ng says she hopes to review the appropriation and interest declaration systems currently adopted by the District Council so that the use of public funds can be better supervised.<\/span><\/p>\n

*The other candidates in the by-election, Lui Kam-keung and Olivia Lau Shu-yin declined to be interviewed<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Edited by Howard Yang<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Elaine Ng The Democratic Party\u2019s Bonnie Ng Hoi-yan is playing down her chances of winning in the Central and Western District Council by-election for the Tung Wah constituency. Ng says she\u2019s under \u201cattack from both sides\u201d \u2013 the two sides being school principal Lui Kam-keung and administrator Olivia Lau Shu-yin. Ng is the only […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[892],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-central-and-western-district-council-by-election-2017"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11808"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11824,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11808\/revisions\/11824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}