Baggio Leung

Baggio Lueng
梁頌恆
Convenor of Youngspiration
Incumbent
Assumed office 21 January 2015
Personal details
Born	(1986-08-07) 7 August 1986 Hong Kong
Nationality	Hong Kong Chinese
Political party	Youngspiration
Residence	Hong Kong
Alma mater	City University of Hong Kong

Sixtus "Baggio" Leung Chung-hang (Chinese: 梁頌恆; born 7 August 1986) is a Hong Kong activist and politician. He is the convenor of the Youngspiration, a localist political group in Hong Kong with pro-Hong Kong independence tendency. He is running for the 2016 Hong Kong Legislative Council election in New Territories East.

Biography

Leung graduated from the City University of Hong Kong and was the president of the City University of Hong Kong Students' Union in 2007. It was reported that he supported the government's appointment of Way Kuo to be the president of the City University of Hong Kong and developed a close relationship with the Chinese Liaison Office in Hong Kong. Leung later admitted that they have met but he did not agree with their stance.

In January 2015, Leung established Youngspiration with a group of like-minded people who participated in the 2014 Occupy protests which is often dubbed as "Umbrella Revolution". It stands on a localist platform, against the influx of Chinese immigrants and tourists and organised a series of anti-parallel trading protests in early 2015. In the 2015 District Council election, Youngspiration fielded nine candidates, in which Leung himself stood in Kwun Lung against pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB) veteran Ip Kwok-him. Leung lost the election by a margin of about 900 votes. Only one of the nine Youngspiration candidates were elected.

In the 2016 Legislative Council election, Youngspiration formed an electoral alliance under the name of "ALLinHK" with other newly founded Umbrella groups. Leung planned to stand in Hong Kong Island but later stood in New Territories West. He withdrew his nomination in the last moment and led his own ticket in New Territories East as a backup plan right before Hong Kong Indigenous' Edward Leung was disqualified by the Electoral Affairs Commission (EAC) for his pro-independence stance.