Youngspiration 青年新政 | |
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| Founded | 21 January 2015 |
| Membership |  ~400[1] |
| Ideology | Hong Kong nationalism Liberalism (Hong Kong) Nativism[2] |
| Political position | Right-wing[3][4] |
| Colours | Orange |
| Legislative Council | 0 / 90
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| District Councils | 0 / 470
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| Website | |
| https://web.archive.org/web/20171108030323/http://youngspiration.hk/ | |
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| Chinese | 青年新政 | ||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Youth new policy | ||||||||||||
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Youngspiration is a localist political party in Hong Kong founded in 2015. It emerged after the 2014 Hong Kong protests (often dubbed as the "Umbrella Revolution") with an agenda of protection of Hong Kong people's interests and culture against the interference of the Chinese government and advocated the "Hong Kong nation's right to self-determination". The group wants a self-determination referendum in 2020 with the results effective in 2047, when China's "one country, two systems" promise ends.[5] As of 2016, the convenor of the group is Baggio Leung.
Youngspiration was part of the localist electoral alliance ALLinHK in the 2016 legislative election and won two seats in the direct elections. Baggio Leung and Yau Wai-ching, the two Youngspiration democratic elected legislators, triggered a controversy when they made pro-independence statements "Hong Kong is not China" during the oaths of office with insult words to China and were ejected from the Legislative Council by the court after the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) interpreted the Article 104 of the Basic Law of Hong Kong, which specifically targeted the duo's conduct by "clarifying" the provision of the legislators to swear allegiance to Hong Kong as part of China when they take office.
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