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Centrist camp 中間派 | |
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| Ideology | Centrism Factions: Liberalism (HK) Conservatism (HK) |
| Legislative Council | 0 / 90 (0%) |
| District Councils | 4 / 470 (0.9%) |
| Election Committee | 3 / 1,500 (0.2%) |
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Thecentrist camp, also known as themoderate camp ormoderate groups,[1] isHong Kong'smoderate political alignment.
Although they are not actively pro-government at the level of thepro-Beijing camp, the centrist camp interacts and support theChinese government. For example,Ronny Tong ofPath of Democracy entered theExecutive Council of Hong Kong. Both Path of Democracy and Third Side join the ‘patriots-only’ legislative election.[2]
A 2015 poll by The University of Hong Kong found that 41.9% of Hong Kong's population describe themselves as "centrists", 28.4% as "pro-democracy camp supporters", and 11.4% as "pro-Beijing camp supporters".[3]
Christine Fong and Wong Sing-chi, classified as centrist in the2016 New Territories East by-election, lost toAlvin Yeung, classified aspro-democracy camp. At the time, Christine Fong received 33,424 votes, while Wong Singh-chi received 17,257 votes; inNew Territories, the centrist camp received about 12%.
Third Side chairman Tik Chi-yuen claims that voters abandoned the centrist line and voted for a pro-Beijing camp because of the 'Returning to the Edge Effect' (歸邊效應) in the election. He analyzed that the centrist camp is likely to win 1 seat in the New Territories if it works with centrist politicians at the2016 Hong Kong legislative election.[4]
In the 2016 Hong Kong legislative election; Wong Singh-chi bolted from the Third Side and ran for theSocial Welfare functional constitution, Tik Chi-yuen ran for the Kowloon West, Christine Fong was eliminated from 10th place with 34,544 votes in the eastern district of New Territories,[5] the Path of Democracy sent two lists to Hong Kong Island and the eastern part of the New Territories and losing with 10,028 and 8,084 votes (respectively, which was a very small number of votes, resulting in the confiscation of theelection deposit).
In the2021 Hong Kong legislative election, the only centrist candidate elected wasTik Chi-yuen.[6]
TheRoundtable is not part of the centrist camp but has a moderate view among the pro-Beijing camp parties and is friendly to the centrists.
InMacau, there are two political parties that are part of the centrist camp,Synergy of Macao andMacao Civic Power.
