For the past week, I have interviewed two young candidates from Civic Party: Adam Cheng and Ng Gene Bond. There are several similarities between them:

First, both of them are very young. Adam is only 21-year-old, who is still a third-year science student in HKU. Bond just graduated from HKU this summer and works as a secondery school teacher at age of 22.

Second, both of them are affiliated with Civic Party, which was established on March, 2006. Both candidates mentioned that Civic Party is very willing to accept young members and that’s one of the reasons they chose to join it.

Third, both of them are strong believers of democracy in HK and has had this idea since they were kids. They also strongly support universal suffrage for 2012, as their party fighting for it.

Due to the agreement of pro-democracy camp, young candidates like Adam and Bond have been allocated to New Territories. Their constituencies are considerably small and most residents are grassroots. Since they are new to their constituencies, they require assistance from other party members and they need to spend a lot of time there to promote themselves.

My problem is that I haven’t heard back from any candidates from the DAB, in order to make a balancing reporting. Also, campaign strategies for DC candidates are very simple and sole, since they are constrained by election regulations. So I have to put more effort on making the reporting more interesting.