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The Alliance for True Democracy is a coalition of the pan-democrats to fight for universal suffrage in Hong Kong.
It was formed on 21 March 2013 by 12 pan-democratic groups on the basis of the Alliance for Universal Suffrage formed in 2010 and suspended in January 2013 due to the split over strategy on dealing the Beijing government.
The convenor Joseph Cheng Yu-shek, political scientist at the City University said the alliance priority would be to strive for public support in the political reform debate, and to form a consensus proposal by the end of the year.[1]
Membership
It is composed of 27 Legislative Council members from 12 pan-democratic groups including:
- Civic Party
- Democratic Party
- Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood
- Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union
- Hong Kong Social Workers General Union
- Labour Party
- League of Social Democrats
- Neighbourhood and Workers Service Centre
- Neo Democrats
- People Power
- Power for Democracy
- Professional Commons
References
- ^ But, Joshua (22 March 2013). "Pan-democrats unite for 'genuine' universal suffrage". SCMP. Hong Kong. Retrieved 24 March 2013.