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TheHong Kong Island by-election, 2007 Pro-democracy primary was aprimary election held to select a single candidate to represent all thePan-democrat parties, also referred to as the "pro-democracy camp", in theHong Kong Islandby-election, 2007.
The pro-democracy parties and organisations participating in the coordination wereDemocratic Party,Civic Party,League of Social Democrats,The Frontier,Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions,Neighbourhood and Workers Service Centre,Civic Act-up,Civil Human Rights Front, Women's Alliance (婦盟) and theAssociation for Democracy and People's Livelihood.[1] The selection mechanism was organized byFrederick Fung,Emily Lau,Ronny Tong andJoseph Lee (李國麟).[2]
The selection mechanism for the Democrat candidate consisted of a public debate, anopinion poll and primary elections. The weightings were: 50% from the opinion poll, 30% from the 300 delegates, 10% fromLegislative Councillors and 10% fromDistrict Councillors.
The debate format is based on those held for the2007 Chief Executive election. University professorsMa Ngok (馬嶽),Chan Kin-man (陳健民) andBenny Tai (戴耀廷) questioned the candidates while culture criticLeung Man-tao (梁文道) acted as moderator. One hundred members of the public participated and asked questions.[3] The debate was broadcast live on television and radio. Rev.Chu Yiu-ming (朱耀明) acted as the returning officer for the voting.
The selection mechanism cost an estimated HK$140,000, with the result announced on 30 September.[1]
Chan won the primary by a clear margin, with 77.3 points compared with Lo's 22.7 points.
