Fernando Cheung

Dr. Fernando Cheung
Member of the Legislative Council
In office 12 September 2004 – 7 September 2008
Succeeded by	Cheung Kwok-che
Constituency	Social Welfare
Internal Vice-Chairman of the Civic Party
In office 16 March 2006 – 6 December 2008
Leader	Audrey Eu
Succeeded by	Alan Leong
Personal details
Born	23 February 1957 (1957-02-23) (age 54) 20px Macau
Political party	Civic Party (2006-2010)
Alma mater	St. Paul's College Hong Kong Baptist University (B.SocSc in Social Work) California State University (Master in Social Work) University of California, Berkeley (Doctorate)
Occupation	Lecturer at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Applied Social Science)

Fernando Cheung Chiu-hung (simplified Chinese: 张超雄; traditional Chinese: 張超雄; born 23 February 1957, Macau) is a Hong Kong politician, the vice-chairman of the Civic Party, he is a former member of the Legislative Council.

Cheung worked in the United States from 1988, and became a naturalized United States citizen. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1990, and worked as a physician^{[citation needed]}. He also served as the head of an Asian rights organization (屋崙華人服務社) in San Francisco.

After he moved back to Hong Kong in 1996, he became a lecturer at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He became the vice-convener of Civil Human Rights Front in 2002. He had close relationship with the left wing pro-democrats. He joined the functional constituency of social welfare of the Legislative Council in June, 2004. He defeated Cheung Kwok-chu by a razor-thin 64 votes. After he won the election, he refused to visit Beijing on 30 September 2004 with nine other pro-democratic legislators; choosing to protest on that day for Hong Kong citizens instead.

Cheung introduced a motion for the referendum on universal suffrage for the 2007 chief executive elections in Hong Kong. The Chinese government had warned Hong Kong's pro-democracy legislators not to hold a referendum on universal suffrage for 2007/08. After three members of the democratic camp said they would not vote for his motion at the Legislative Council's constitutional affairs panel meeting, he said,

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Perhaps the three councillors feared that a referendum was legally binding in nature and hence their reluctance to support my motion. I believe every democrat lawmaker still accepts the 2007-08 target. Voting against my motion does not mean they have abandoned hope of universal suffrage.

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He has also said that if the motion cannot be passed, he would hold an unofficial referendum.^{[citation needed]}

His paternal grandmother is a native of Peru.^[1]

External links

• Fernando Cheung's Website in HKPU

References

1. ^ Emily Kwong, 讓女兒放輕鬆 叫父親太沉重, 13 December 2008, Hong Kong Economic Journal, Page 07

Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Preceded by Law Chi Kwong	Member of Legislative Council Representative for Social Welfare constituency 2004 – 2008	Succeeded by Cheung Kwok Che

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Name	Cheung, Fernando
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Date of birth	23 February 1957
Place of birth	Macau
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