The Ant Alliance (or United Ants; ) was a short-lived civil group in the 1990s that was informally started by workers and professionals for the protection of civil and political rights. These are outlined in the
Hong Kong Bill of Rights Ordinance, to help the
Hong Kong
Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a List of cities in China, city and Special administrative regions of China, special ...
government preserve human rights and democracy because of the uncertainties in the post-1997 era.
One of the members, Lee Miu-ming, lost a lawsuit against the government's
functional constituency in the
Legislative Council of Hong Kong
The Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (LegCo) is the unicameral legislature of Hong Kong. It sits under China's " one country, two systems" constitutional arrangement, and is the power centre of Hong Kon ...
in which they argued that it violated the Bill of Rights Ordinance and its principle of equal voting.
In the summer of 1994, the group gained media attention by criticizing four members of the
Meeting Point (
Leong Che-hung
Edward Leong Che-hung (, born 23 April 1939, Hong Kong) was the non-official member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong.
By training a physician, he graduated from Queen's College, Hong Kong, the University of Hong Kong as Bachelor of ...
,
Fred Li
Fred Li Wah-ming (Chinese: 李華明; born 25 April 1955, Hong Kong) is a former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong representing the constituency of Kowloon East. He was a member of the Kwun Tong District Council for Tsui Ping.
H ...
,
Tik Chi-yuen and
Zachary Wong
Zachary Wong Wai-yin (; born 22 December 1957, Hong Kong) is a former Yuen Long District Councillor (representing Nam Ping) for the Meeting Point and later Democratic Party and a former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.
He j ...
) for abstaining from voting for
Emily Lau's (the then pro-democracy Independent legislator for the
New Territories East constituency) full-scale direct election amendment of Governor
Chris Patten
Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, (; born 12 May 1944) is a British politician who was the 28th and last Governor of Hong Kong from 1992 to 1997 and Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1992. He was made a life ...
's
1995 LegCo election bill.
Law Yuk-kai, director of the
Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor, was their leader.
Many notable members of the Ant Alliance including
Cyd Ho, who joined the newly formed Pro-democracy party,
the Frontier in 1996.
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Defunct political parties in Hong Kong