1. Starry Lee Wai-king, SBS, JP is a Hong Kong politician and former chairperson of the largest pro-establishment Beijing-loyalist party, the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong.
16 Facts About Starry Lee
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Starry Lee is a member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, Legislative Councillor for the Kowloon Central geographical constituency, and a former Kowloon City District Councillor.
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Starry Lee became a professional accountant, working for KPMG in Hong Kong and is currently the principal at CCIF CPA Ltd.
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Starry Lee first stood in the District Council elections in 1999 for the Kowloon City District Council, the neighbourhood where she lived.
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Starry Lee was elected aged 26, the youngest district councillor at that time.
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Starry Lee joined the pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong when she was approached by the former party chairman Tsang Yok-sing around 2004.
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Starry Lee was asked to become the part of Tsang's team in the following Legislative Council election in September 2004.
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Starry Lee was listed third on the candidate list and helped Tsang to win a seat in the Kowloon West.
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Starry Lee was elected to the Legislative Council with around 39,000 votes, nearly 19 percent of the vote share, when Tsang left the constituency for Hong Kong Island in the 2008 Legislative Council election.
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Starry Lee served on the Executive Council until her resignation in March 2016, when she said she wanted to focus on her work on the Legislative Council and the party.
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Starry Lee's position was taken by Ip Kwok-him, a veteran DAB legislator.
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On 18 May 2020, Starry Lee was re-elected as House Committee chairperson.
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In March 2021, Starry Lee supported changes that would reduce the power of Legislative Council members, claiming that opposition members had blocked legislation and caused a power vacuum.
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In January 2022, the mainland Chinese national emblem was permanently added to the Legislative Council chamber, after Andrew Leung, Starry Lee Wai-king and Ma Fung-kwok decided that it should be made permanent.
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In February 2022, Starry Lee told SCMP that she would not be attending the 2022 Two Sessions, as a Hong Kong delegate.
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On 11 March 2023, Starry Lee was elected to the National People's Congress and succeeded Tam Yiu-chung to become the Hong Kong representative in the NPCSC.