Fergus Leung
Fergus Leung Fong-wai is a Hong Kong politician currently serving as a member of the Central and Western District Council, representing Kwun Lung. Leung ran as an independent localist in the 2019 District Council elections and won his seat with 50.69% of the vote.Career
Leung developed an interest in politics at high school, and took part in Hong Kong's 2014 Umbrella Movement as a teenager. He studied biomedicine at the University of Hong Kong, where he served as the external affairs secretary of the student union.
In July 2019, Leung was spurred by the ongoing Hong Kong protests to run for a position on his local District Council. As a first-time candidate competing against the incumbent Yeung Hoi-wing, Leung won the seat in Kwun Lung, which had been considered a pro-establishment stronghold, represented by the same political party since 2007. His election win was amid record voter turnout throughout the city, which Leung described as "a milestone in Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement".
In June 2020, Leung announced his intention to run in the 2020 Hong Kong legislative election. He connected with fellow localist candidates Sam Cheung and Owen Chow, where they signed a joint statement agreeing to promote the protest movement's demands if elected. In the pro-democracy primaries for the Hong Kong Island constituency, Leung took third place with 14,743 votes, after Ted Hui and Tiffany Yuen, securing him a nomination spot in the general election.
On 30 July, weeks before the general election, the government stated that Leung was among a dozen pro-democracy candidates whose nominations were 'invalid'. His disqualification was determined by an opaque process where returning officers nominally assessed whether Leung had objected to the enactment of the national security law, and was sincere in statements made disavowing separatism.
