Rosanda Mok Ka-han ( zh, 莫嘉嫻; born 23 May 1972) is a
Democratic Party politician in Hong Kong and a member of
Wong Tai Sin District
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. She is the former chairman of the
pro-democracy
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Whether and to what ...
pro-grassroots
Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood
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(ADPL) and former member of the
Kowloon City District Council
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for
Ma Tau Wai
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.
Biography
Rosanda Mok was born in 1972 and graduated from the
Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Established in 1963 as a federation of three university college, collegesChung Chi College, New Asia Coll ...
with a master's degree in Sociology. She joined the
Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood
The Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood (ADPL) is a Hong Kong pro-democracy social-liberal political party catering to grassroots interest with a strong basis in Sham Shui Po. Established on 26 October 1986, it was one ...
(ADPL), a local-based pro-grassroots
pro-democratic party and was first elected to the
Kowloon City District Council
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through
Ma Tau Wai
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in the
1999 District Council election and re-elected for three times until she was unseated by the
pro-Beijing
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(DAB) newcomer Terence Siu Tin-hung in the
2015 election with a narrow margin of 45 votes.
She has also hold public positions including the Buildings Appeal Tribunal Panel, the Gas Safety Appeal Board Panel, and the Obscene and Indecent Articles Panel of Adjudicators.
On 23 January 2016, Mok was elected the first female chair of the ADPL, succeeding veteran
Bruce Liu
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. Her chairmanship lasted for less than a year as in September the same year, Mok resigned from the chairperson post of ADPL because her party suffered a historic defeat in losing its only seat in the
2016 legislative election. She was succeeded by
Sze Tak-loy
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In the 2015 District ...
.
In 2017, after a legislative seat in West Kowloon was vacated following the
oath-taking controversy, veteran lawmaker and former chairman
Frederick Fung
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sought for nominations from ADPL to contest the
March 2018 Kowloon West by-election. However, Mok insisted the party should nominate a younger member instead. She left the ADPL on 26 June 2017 after the party resolved to nominate Fung. She later joined the
Democratic Party. In
2019
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, she fought the Wong Tai Sin District Council seat vacated by party chairman
Wu Chi-wai
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, and retained the seat.
References
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1972 births
Living people
District councillors of Kowloon City District
District councillors of Wong Tai Sin District
Alumni of the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood politicians
Democratic Party (Hong Kong) politicians
Hong Kong women in politics