‘Not a parachute candidate’: Liberal is banking on his extensive behind-the-scenes political experience
Dominic Lee Tsz-king from the Liberal Party hopes to see social tension in the city ease
When he was an economics student in America at Rice University, Texas, Dominic Lee Tsz-king cut his teeth in politics working as a volunteer in John Kerry’s campaign during the US Democratic Party presidential primaries of 2004.
A year later, he became an intern in the office of Texas Democrat congressman Al Green, during which he met people with all sorts of problems and tried to understand their plight. It also sparked his determination to serve and try to improve the community.
Lee returned to Hong Kong after graduation and joined the Liberal Party in 2009.
He made his election debut in the 2011 district council polls, contesting a seat in the Kwai Tsing District Council. He lost, then scouted for a “safer” constituency in Sham Shui Po and won a seat in the upper middle-class constituency of Yau Yat Tsuen in last year’s district council elections.
At the age of 32, he now chairs the party’s young squadron.
In the upcoming Legislative Council elections, Lee heads his party’s list in the New Territories East constituency while party honorary chairman James Tien Pei-chun will run in second place. The ranking gives Lee a better chance than Tien of securing a seat under the so-called party-list proportional representation electoral system.
