Hong Kong Legislative Council
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social worker
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and chairman of the small centrist
Third Side
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party, which he co-founded in 2015, after quitting the
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, of which he was also a co-founder.
Background
He was the chairman of the Committee on Home-School Co-operation, member of the Commission on Strategic Development, Council for Sustainable Development and the Commission on Poverty.
In 2008, Tik took part in the social welfare functional constituency election in the
2008 Hong Kong legislative election
The 2008 Hong Kong Legislative Council election was held on 7 September 2008 for the 4th Legislative Council since the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. There were 60 seats in the 4th Legislative Council, with 30 memb ...
. But he was defeated by
Cheung Kwok Che
Peter Cheung Kwok-che (born 8 November 1951, ) is a former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (Functional constituency, Social Welfare), with the Labour Party.Hong Kong Social Workers General Union.
On 9 September 2015, he quit the Democratic Party after he supported the constitutional reform package which the party opposed and denounced by some party members.
He then founded and is now the chairman of
Third Side
Third Side is a Liberalism, liberal List of political parties in Hong Kong, political party in Hong Kong which claims to offer a "third road" to democracy, positioned between the Pro-democracy camp in Hong Kong, pro-democracy camp and the pro-B ...
, a centrist party in Hong Kong.
In 2021, he won a seat in
2021 Hong Kong Election Committee Subsector elections
The 2021 Election Committee subsector elections were held on 19 September 2021 for elected seats of the 1,500 members of the Election Committee (EC) which is responsible for electing 40 of the 90 seats in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, Legi ...
and
2021 Hong Kong legislative election
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Pro-Beijing
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Legislative Council member in this term.
On 16 February 2022, Tik, along with the other 89 members of the Legislative Council, made a statement of gratitude to
Chinese Communist Party
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general secretary
Xi Jinping
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for his "guidance" in fighting the
COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong
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