Tik Chi-yuen () is a member of the

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and of North District Council. He is a registered

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and chairman of the small centrist

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party, which he co-founded in 2015, after quitting the

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, of which he was also a co-founder.

Background

He was the chairman of the Committee on Home-School Co-operation, member of the Commission on Strategic Development, Council for Sustainable Development and the Commission on Poverty. In 2008, Tik took part in the social welfare functional constituency election in the

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. But he was defeated by Cheung Kwok Che, the president of the Hong Kong Social Workers General Union. On 9 September 2015, he quit the Democratic Party after he supported the constitutional reform package which the party opposed and denounced by some party members. He then founded and is now the chairman of

, a centrist party in Hong Kong. In 2021, he won a seat in 2021 Hong Kong Election Committee Subsector elections and

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in Social Welfare constituency, making him the only non- Pro-Beijing Legislative Council member in this term. On 16 February 2022, Tik, along with the other 89 members of the Legislative Council, made a statement of gratitude to

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general secretary

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for his "guidance" in fighting the

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tik, Chi Chi District councillors of North District Hong Kong social workers Democratic Party (Hong Kong) politicians Meeting Point politicians Living people HK LegCo Members 1991–1995 HK LegCo Members 2022–2025 Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 2007–2012 Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 2012–2017 1957 births