Lo Kin-hei (; born 1 June 1984) is the Chairman of the Democratic Party and Southern District Council. He has been a Southern District Councillor for Lei Tung II constituency from 2012 to 2021.

Career

Born in 1984, Lo graduated from the

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with the

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in 2006. He is a registered social worker. He joined the Democratic Party and first contested in the 2007 District Council elections, contesting in the Lei Tung II constituency covering the

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. He lost in a narrow margin of 27 votes. He contested in the same constituency in the next District Council elections in 2011 and succeeded in taking a seat with 2,346 votes. He was also member of the pan-democratic candidate list "Demo-Social 60" in the 2011 Election Committee Subsector election for the Social Welfare Subsector and was elected. In the party leadership election in December 2012, Lo was elected as Vice-Chairman with his senior

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, becoming the youngest Vice-Chairman in party's history. After the 2019 District Council election, Lo called the vote in effect a “vote of no-confidence” in the political establishment, including Hong Kong’s leader,

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, and key Chinese officials such as

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, head of the State Council’s

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. On 15 July 2020, Lo was arrested at his home, and later released on bail, for having participated in an unauthorized protest outside

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on 18 November 2019. The university campus had been the venue of major confrontations between protesters and police at that time. Lo and four others were arrested on the same day in relation to the protest, all of whom were scheduled to appear before the courts on 21 August.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lo, Kin-hei 1984 births Alumni of the University of Hong Kong Living people District councillors of Southern District Hong Kong social workers Democratic Party (Hong Kong) politicians Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 2012–2017 Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 2017–2021