Kennedy Wong
BBS, JP
黃英豪
Member of the Legislative Council
Assumed office
1 January 2022
Preceded byWong Ting-kwong
ConstituencyImport and Export
Member of the Provisional Legislative Council
In office
21 December 1996 – 30 June 1998
Personal details
Born (1963-02-23) 23 February 1963
Hong Kong
Political partyDAB
Children4
Alma materUniversity of Kent
OccupationSolicitor

Kennedy Wong Ying-ho BBS, JP (born 23 February 1963 in Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong solicitor. He is a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong. He was also the member of the Provisional Legislative Council which existed from 1996 to 98 and councillor of the Hong Kong Baptist University. He was the part-time member of the government's Central Policy Unit from 2002 to 2004 and the member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference National Committee.[1]

In December 2021, it was reported that Wong had a "privileged" vote in the 2021 Hong Kong legislative election, where the vote would count approximately 7,215 times more than an ordinary citizen.[2]

According to Wong's January 2022 declaration of assets, he owns shares in about 40 separate companies.[3]

In July 2022, Wong was one of 18 DAB lawmakers who argued that businesspeople should have their own quarantine hotel rooms in Shenzhen, separate from the rest of the population going from Hong Kong to Shenzhen, who use a ballot system to allocate rooms.[4]

In August 2022, Wong announced that he would travel to Indonesia to clarify misconceptions about Hong Kong, and discuss "the true situation in Hong Kong, because unfortunately the international media has not properly reported the whole situation, in particular what really happened in 2019 and what the Hong Kong government as well as different sectors are [doing] to bring us to the next level."[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Positions of Wong, Kennedy Ying Ho". Web-site Hong Kong. Retrieved 30 April 2013.
  2. ↑ FactWire (15 December 2021). "Factwire: 41 privileged voters have 7,200 times greater power than a regular Hong Kong voter following election revamp". Hong Kong Free Press HKFP. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
  3. ↑ "How well can Hong Kong's affluent lawmakers represent ordinary residents?". South China Morning Post. 17 January 2022. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
  4. ↑ "Businesspeople call for own Shenzhen hotel quota – RTHK". news.rthk.hk. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  5. ↑ "DAB to visit ASEAN countries to promote Hong Kong - RTHK". news.rthk.hk. Retrieved 31 August 2022.

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