Starry Lee Wai-king, Hong Kong lawmaker and leader of the city's largest political party, was elected on Saturday as the special administrative region's sole delegate to the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress, the nation's top legislature.
Lee won 2,901 votes from nationwide NPC deputies, with 35 dissenting and 3 abstentions, on Saturday morning at the fourth plenary meeting of the 14th NPC at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The meeting elected 159 members of the new-term NPC Standing Committee out of 172 candidates.
Lee, 48, chairperson of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong, replaced Hong Kong veteran politician Tam Yiu-chung, who had served in the past since 2018. She became Hong Kong's youngest-ever member of the NPCSC.
Lee is a newcomer to the NPC. She has been a member of the National Committee of the 13th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the nation's top political advisory body, for the past five years.
Lee -- a certificated accountant in Hong Kong – became the first female leader of the DAB in 2015. She has served in the SAR's Legislative Council since 2008 and was a member of the Executive Council from 2012 to 2016.
Lee is the SAR's fourth sole delegate to the NPCSC since the city's return to the motherland in 1997. The position had been previously held by business leader Tsang Hin-chi, former Hong Kong Legislative Council president Rita Fan Hsu Lai-tai and Tam.
(Source: China Daily)
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