Dominic Lee

Dominic Lee Tsz-king (Chinese: 李梓敬; 22 January 1984) is a Liberal Party politician in Hong Kong. He is chairman of the Liberal Party Youth Committee and member of the Sham Shui Po District Council for Yau Yat Tsuen since 2016.

Biography

Lee was born in Hong Kong in 1984 to a upper-middle class family. He was educated at the Diocesan Boys' School and the Li Po Chun United World College of Hong Kong and graduated from the Rice University in the United States in 2006 with a degree in economics. He working as an assistant in his campus polling station for the Democratic Party presidential candidate John Kerry in 2004 and later worked as an intern for Democrat member of the U.S. House of Representatives Al Green.^[1]

He joined the pro-business conservative Liberal Party in 2009 after he returned to Hong Kong. Before that he had helped the party chairman James Tien running in New Territories East in 2004. He became the first chairman of the party's youth committee when it was established in 2011.

Lee is vocal for his "right-wing" stances on economy, immigration and social issues. He is known for his strong words in opposition to universal retirement protection and was once sworn by an old lady even over the topic during a Legislative Council public hearing, which immediately went viral on the Internet.

In 2015, he supported the government's plan to scrap visa-free facility for Indians, defending the move as a "sacrifice to protect our borders".^[2] In 2016, he led the Alliance Demanding Repatriation of Refugees against "fake" refugees from Southeast Asia rush into Hong Kong.^[3] Moreover, he demanded quitting the United Nations Convention against Torture to block “fake” refugees from coming to Hong Kong.^[4] In May, he led an anti-refugee protest which drew 100 to 200 people as well as counter-protest.^[5]

In April 2016, he led a protest in Lan Kwai Fong are hitting back against the Equal Opportunities Commission's ruling of "ladies' night" being discriminatory.^[6]

In the 2011 District Council elections, Lee ran in Shek Lei Extension but was defeated by Democratic Party incumbent Leung Kwok-wah. In the 2015 District Council elections, he run for a safer constituency Yau Yat Tsuen where he lives, and won against League of Social Democrats candidate Dickson Chau Ka-faat, succeeding council chairman Jimmy Kwok Chun-wah as member of the Sham Shui Po District Council.

In 2016, he was nominated by the Liberal Party to lead a ticket in the New Territories East in the Legislative Council election, in which incumbent legislator and party honorary chairman James Tien will stand with him in second place.

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