Civic Passion 熱血公民 | |
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Chairman | Cheng Chung-tai |
Founded | 29 February 2012 |
Dissolved | 3 September 2021 |
Headquarters | Yuen Long, Hong Kong |
Newspaper | Passion Times |
Ideology | |
Political position | Right-wing[2] |
Colours | Yellow |
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Traditional Chinese | 熱血公民 | ||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 热血公民 | ||||||||||||
Literal meaning | hot-blooded (passionate) citizens | ||||||||||||
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Civic Passion was a radical,[3] populist,[4] localist,[5] and nativist[3] political party in Hong Kong. Founded by Wong Yeung-tat as an activist group in 2012, it held strong localist views and opposed the involvement of the Chinese government in the governance of Hong Kong.[6] In the 2016 Legislative Council election, the Civic Passion formed an electoral alliance with Wong Yuk-man's Proletariat Political Institute and Chin Wan's Hong Kong Resurgence Order. Cheng Chung-tai became the only candidate of the alliance elected to the legislature and subsequently took over as the leader of the Civic Passion. After the election, Cheng reorganised the group into a political party and pulled out from the social activism. From December 2020 to August 2021, it was the only opposition party in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.
Activists from Civic Passion appear more concerned to locate their Hong Kong nationalism within the Chinese cultural tradition.