Political situation
Author: Zheng Rongdi
2020-10-13 07:00
Last update date: 2020-10-13 07:00
The government postponed the Legislative Council election due to the epidemic, and repaid the candidates in full for the expenses spent, except for the 12 people whose nominations were ruled invalid.
"Hong Kong 01" checked the election expenses declaration data of the candidates. Among the DQ12 people, except for Zheng Jinman, a passionate citizen of Hong Kong Island who signed up for the election of Hong Kong Island, and local party Liang Huangwei, the remaining 10 people had a total of about 5.268 million election expenses.
Among them, Liu Weikuang, who joined the list of eight Sha Tin District Councillors to run for the New Territories East, spent more than 1.47 million yuan on the entire team list, but received only 187,000 donations.
The Citizens’ Party was spent by the four DQs totaling 1.43 million. The Eastern District Councillor Cheng Tat-hung, who was elected on Hong Kong Island, had a total expenditure of 800,000 yuan, but he did not need to "bleed" himself. He received a donation of 200,000 yuan in cash from former Civic Party leader Yu Ruowei, and the rest Approximately 550,000 were "underwritten" by the Civic Party to which they belonged.
The district councillor Cheng Tat-hung elected to Hong Kong Island has a total expenditure of up to 800,000 yuan, but he does not need to "bleed" himself. He received a donation of 200,000 yuan in cash from former Civic Party leader Yu Ruowei, and the remaining about 550,000 was "underwritten" by the political party.
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The Citizens Party’s financial distressed leader Yang Yueqiao needs to pay 212,000 out of his pocket. The
Citizens’ Party Liang Jiajie stated earlier that the election expenses this time reached two or three million yuan. If the expenses cannot be repaid by the end of this year as in previous election years, the party will fall into a financial crisis. .
This time, with the exception of Zheng Dahong who received "special care", the other three members of the Legislative Council were required to advance part of the election expenses on their own. Among them, the total election expenses of Guo Rongkeng in the legal profession was only 54,000, and he had to pay about 40,000. Guo Jiaqi, who has a total expenditure of 236,000, has to pay 86,000 out of his own pocket; Yang Yueqiao, the party leader who is competing for re-election in New Territories East, bears the most burden, with a total election expenditure of 342,000 and needs to pay 212,000 out of his own pocket.
Liu Ying-kuang, who has no political background, and eight Shatin district councillors who participated in the election for New Territories East, have a total expenditure of more than 1.475 million yuan. After deducting a donation of 187,000 yuan, he has to pay nearly 1.28 million yuan at his own expense. He is currently the list of candidates for DQ The most expensive.
The biggest expense is to hire agents and election assistants of about 740,000 yuan, including six election assistants for 234,000 yuan and eight canvassers for 385,000 yuan.
In addition, he used 425,000 to send 1 million mailing circulars.
He Guilan received 615,000 donations from Zhongzhi, only $548
"Sister Sister" He Guilan had a total election expenditure of 645,000 yuan, of which more than half, about 354,000 yuan, was used to hire 14 election assistants and canvassers.
However, He Guilan received a donation of about 615,000 cash from "Chung Chi Limited", and he only had to advance it for RMB 548.
According to past search data, the only holder of "Chung Chi Limited" whose Chinese translation is the same as "Zhong Chi" is former Zhong Zhi member Wu Tianbin. Former Zhong Zhi standing committee member Liao Weilian served as the company secretary. Among them, he participated in the East Kowloon region Huang Zhifeng, who was directly elected by the DQ, also received donations from "Chung Chi Limited". Among Huang Zhifeng's 504,000 election expenses, "Chung Chi Limited" donated about 440,000 yuan.
Party leader Yang Yueqiao bears the most, with total election expenses of 342,000 and he has to pay 212,000.
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"Sister Sister" Ho Guilan's total election expenses amounted to 645,000 yuan, of which more than half, about 354,000 yuan, was used to hire 14 election assistants and canvassers.
(Photo by Zhang Haowei)
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