2012 Legislative Council “Sports, Performing Arts, Culture and Publication” functional constituency election

2012 was the election year of the Legislative Council (LegCo) of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, through which interested individuals could run for membership of the LegCo. 35 of the 70 LegCo members were returned by functional constituencies (FC). Fok Tsun-ting Timothy had been the member of “Sports, Performing Arts, Culture and Publication” FC for the past 14 years. In the report released by the “Catholic Monitors on Legislative Councillors” in February, Fok had not initiated any motion or amendment for 10 years. There was no interrogation from him in 2010, and he was absent in 23 of the 52 meetings in 2011. A group of culture practitioners thus suggested that this FC needed a new member. The group also encouraged its fellow practitioners to register as voters. Three people run for the FC membership, namely ex-ADC president Ma Fung-kwok, visual artist Chow Chun-fai, and solicitor Siu Sze-kong. Ma won and would hold the membership for 4 years.