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467:, saw the minimum wage debate was a challenge to the party authority and decide to fight back by joining hands with the Meeting Point faction to defeat the Young Turks. Andrew To wrote a newspaper article accusing the Mainstreamers of suppressing intra-party dissent, "just like the butchers in the Tiananmen massacre." To's comment led to a backlash of opinion within the party and led to the defeat of the minimum wage motion. The debate, largely took place in the mass media, publicised the factional rivalries and created a bad image within the party. To later on left the party in 2002 and formed the 59: 535:
led a no-confidence motion against To at an extraordinary general party meeting in which To survived the motion by 170 to 111. As a result, two of the three legislators of the party, Wong Yuk-man and Albert Chan quit the party with many party's leading figures on 24 January 2011, about two hundreds
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The tension between the To and Wong factions worsened by the late 2010 as Wong disagreed with the policies of To and his faction, including his disapproval of sniping the Democratic Party in the upcoming
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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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with a "clearcut" pro-grassroots stance and opposition party image. To exchanged fire with the Democratic Party over the "
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of their supporters joined them, leaving the LSD in disarray. In the 2011 District Council election, he lost his seat in
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joined. On 1 February 2010, LSD founding chairman Wong Yuk-man stepped down and To succeeded as the party chairman.
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He was active in sports and school sport competitions when he was young. His wife, Jackie Hung, was a leader of
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In a general meeting in September 1999, the To-led Young Turks also proposed to put the
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platform of the party. The Mainstreamers which included the "triumvirate",
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Of Hakka ancestry, To was born in Hong Kong in 1966 and was raised in
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and Justice and Peace Commission of the Hong Kong Catholic Diocese.
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to a new face Roy Tin. He resigned as the LSD chairman as a result.
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to run for vice-chairman against the former Meeting Point chairman
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Kuan, Hsin-chi; Liu, Zhaojia; Wang, Jiaying, eds. (2002).
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He represented the radical "Young Turks" faction in the
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After the protest, he became the founding member of the
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and he once went to Beijing to join the hunger strike.
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Chinese University Press. p. 139. 527:, which To thought it would benefit the 128:1 April 1991 – 31 December 2011 881:Chairman of League of Social Democrats 958:League of Social Democrats politicians 900: 595: 401:United Democrats and Democratic Party 389:and was the secretary-general of the 943:The Frontier (Hong Kong) politicians 583: 568: 953:Social Democratic Forum politicians 596:Pepper, Suzanne (24 January 2011). 13: 14: 989: 973:Hong Kong people of Hakka descent 395:Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 16:Hong Kong politician and activist 707:Hong Kong Federation of Students 667:. 6 January 2014. Archived from 543: 391:Hong Kong Federation of Students 135:Hong Kong Federation of Students 329: 315: 651: 636: 632:(in Chinese). 24 January 2011. 616: 589: 562: 525:2011 District Council election 501:Five Constituencies Referendum 393:from 1989 to 1990. 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Index

Hong Kong name
surname
To

League of Social Democrats
Wong Yuk-man
Wong Tai Sin District Council
Hong Kong Federation of Students
Richard Tsoi
United Democrats
Democratic Party
Social Democratic Forum
The Frontier
League of Social Democrats
Jackie Hung
Alma mater
La Salle Primary School
La Salle College
Lingnan University
Traditional Chinese
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization
Jyutping
Chinese
League of Social Democrats
Wong Tai Sin District Council
Choi Hung Estate
La Salle Primary School
La Salle College
Lingnan College

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