New Macau Association

New Macau Association
Chinese name新澳門學社
Portuguese nameAssociação de Macau Novo
ChairpersonScott Chiang Meng Hin
Vice PresidentSulu Sou Ka Hou
Jason Chao Teng Hei
Founded1992 (1992)
IdeologyLiberal democracy
Political positionCentre to centre-left[1]
National affiliationPro-democracy camp
Legislative Assembly
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Website
www.newmacau.org
New Macau Association
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese新澳門學社
Simplified Chinese新澳门学社
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinXīn Àomén Xué Shè
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpingsan1 ou3 mun4*2 hok6 se5
Portuguese name
PortugueseAssociação de Macau Novo

The New Macau Association (AMN) is a major pro-democratic political party in the Chinese Special Administrative Region of Macau. The party was established in 1992 and the founding chairman was António Ng Kuok Cheong, who departed from the then-mainstream livelihood faction and called for political reform in the colony.[2] The current chairman is Icy Kam Sut Leng. At the, 20 September 2009 election, the association split into two electoral lists – the New Democratic Macau Association and the Prosperous Democratic Macau Association. The two lists combined won 19.35% of popular vote and 3 seats in the legislature. At the election in 2005, the group won a plurality of 18.8% of the popular vote and 2 out of 12 popular elected seats. In the 2013 election the association is split into three electoral lists with the addition of New Macau Liberals.

In July 2014, AMN's newly elected vice president, Bill Chou Kwok Ping, was suspended without pay from his position as a political scientist at the University of Macau, after he advocated universal suffrage in a move seen by students, alumni and fellow academics as part of a slide towards unprecedented censorship in Macau's universities.[3]

In mid-October 2014, both AL deputies António Ng Kuok Cheong and Au Kam San intend to seek more independence away from AMN and further reduce the financial support to AMN and that includes 20% of their salary. Both Ng and Au would remain members of AMN but would operate within their own policies rather than AMN's board.[4]

  1. ^ Inc Ibp (July 6, 2013). Macao Country Study Guide Volume 4 Government and International Strategy. International Business Publications, USA. p. 72.
  2. ^ Yu, Elio Wing-yat; Chin, Natalie Ka-man (2012). "The Political Opposition and Democracy in Macao: Revolutionaries or Loyalists?". Government and Opposition. 47 (1): 101. doi:10.1111/j.1477-7053.2011.01356.x. ISSN 0017-257X. S2CID 145507276.
  3. ^ Macau scholars warn of rising censorship, loss of confidence in 'one country, two systems', SCMP, 22 July 2014
  4. ^ "Ativistas de Macau pedem reforma política junto à Assembleia Legislativa". noticias.sapo.tl. SAPO. Retrieved 17 October 2014.