Johnny Mak Ip-sing (; born 1960) is a
pro-ROC and
pro-democracy politician in Hong Kong. He has been a
Yuen Long District Councillor since 1991 and is the current Chairman of the
Democratic Alliance.
Biography
Growing up in a
pro-ROC background, Mak was a graduate from the
Tamkang University in Taiwan, studying Japanese language. He was the president of the Hong Kong Federation of Taiwan Universities Alumni Association from 2007 to 2011. He joined the democracy movement during the
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. He was member of the first major pro-democracy party
United Democrats of Hong Kong which later transformed into the
Democratic Party. In the
1991 District Board elections, he became member of the
Yuen Long District Council through Yuen Long Town South and was re-elected through
Fung Cheung in
1994
The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations.
In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...
. He has since been holding this seat.
Mak was also a member of the pro-ROC
123 Democratic Alliance
123 Democratic Alliance ( Chinese: 一二三民主聯盟) was a pro-Kuomintang political party in Hong Kong. Established in 1994 by a group of pro-Taiwan, pro-democracy and pro-business politicians, it aims at striving for the unification of ...
which was dissolved in 2000 before he joined the radical democratic party
The Frontier. He contested in the
1995 Regional Council election and
1998 Legislative Council election with
Yum Sin-ling for the 123 Democratic Alliance but was not elected. After the
2003 July 1 protests, he set up the local electoral alliance
Yuen Long Tin Shui Wai Democratic Alliance with
Albert Chan Wai-yip for the
2003 District Council election. He became member of the Executive Committee of the
League of Social Democrats (LSD). During the intra-party factional struggle, he sided with former Chairman
Wong Yuk-man and issued a public letter to criticise the incumbent Chairman
Andrew To Kwan-hang. He later quit the party with Wong and became Vice-Chairman of the new party,
People Power which set up by Wong.
In
2011 District Council election, he became the only People Power candidate who won a seat in the election. In 2012, he disputed with the party over the candidacy in the
2012 Legislative Council election. He quit the party on 28 June 2012 and ran under the banner of the
Democratic Alliance, but failed to be elected with 2,896 votes.
On the issue of the
Occupy Central movement campaigned by the pan-democrats with the aims at pressing the Beijing government to implement genuine universal suffrage, Mak was accused by
pro-Beijing newspaper ''
Tai Kung Pao'' of working for the Military Intelligence Bureau of the
ROC National Security Bureau. Mak dismissed the accusation, saying it was a joke.
In July 2021, Mak resigned from his post as district councilor which he held for three decades, later he left Hong Kong indefinitely.
Positions
In addition to being Chairman of the Democratic Alliance and Vice-chairman of the Yuen Long District Council, Mak serves other positions.
Mak currently serves as primary organizer of yearly
Double Tenth celebrations in Hong Kong at
Hung Lau. He is chairman of the Highwise Yuen Long Service Centre, the group which manages the memorial garden.
Also, he is Honorary President of the Hong Kong Federation of Taiwan Universities Alumni Association, and is Vice President of the Tamkang University Alumni Association.
References
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1960 births
Living people
District councillors of Yuen Long District
United Democrats of Hong Kong politicians
Democratic Party (Hong Kong) politicians
123 Democratic Alliance politicians
The Frontier (Hong Kong) politicians
League of Social Democrats politicians
People Power (Hong Kong) politicians
Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 2007–2012