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Starry Lee Wai-king, JP (, born 13 March 1974 in Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong politician. Currently holding the positions of Executive Councillor, Legislative Councillor, and Kowloon City District Councillor, she is also the chairwoman of the largest Beijing-loyalist party, the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB). ==Biography== Born in 1974 in Hong Kong into a working-class family and brought up on a public housing estate, Lee obtained her Bachelor of Business Administration from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Master of Business Administration from the University of Manchester. She became a professional accountant, working for the KPMG in Hong Kong and is currently the principal at the CCIF CPA Ltd. Lee first stood for the District Council elections in 1999 for the Kowloon City District Council, the neighbourhood where she lived. She was elected when she was 26, the youngest district councillor at that time.〔(Jasper Tsang – Laws of attraction )〕 She joined the pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong when she was approached by the former party chairman Tsang Yok-sing around 2004. She was asked to become the part of Tsang's team in the following Legislative Council election in September 2004. She was listed third on the candidate list and helped Tsang to win a seat in the Kowloon West. With her professional background, Lee became a new star in the party and also the pro-Beijing camp. She was elected to the Legislative Council when Tsang left the constituency for Hong Kong Island in the 2008 Legislative Council election. In 2011, she was elected as the vice-chairwoman of the party. In 2012, she was appointed to the Executive Council by Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying. In the 2012 Legislative Council election, Lee contested in the newly created territory-wide District Council (Second) constituency. Her list received over 270,000 votes in total. On 17 April 2015, she was elected as the first woman to chair the DAB, succeeding Tam Yiu-chung. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Starry Lee」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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