淺水灣沙灘競跑和黨內選舉 Beach Run and Election of Party Leadership

昨天雖是星期日，但我也忙碌了一天。早上九點就去了淺水灣沙灘競跑任鳴笛儀式嘉賓，然後再趕往民主黨的周年大會，直到晚上六點才開完。正如跑步有輸贏一樣，周年大會的黨內競選也是。早前我剛當選了民主黨港島支部的常委，昨天則輸了民主黨的中委。

輸贏自有原因，和區議會選舉有點相以，黨內選舉也差不多是在“熟人”之間的選舉，必須長期在區內/黨內工作，廣被認識和認同，才有望成功，這或可解釋為何在港島支部我能勝出，而在中委落敗以及大部分當選者都是舊人的現象。

PS: 沙灘跑起步點就在淺水灣海景大樓外，這次是名符其實的公眾自由參與。如果將來連沙灘也被私有化，像這類的民間活動就無法在海景大樓舉辦了。(參考：http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/our_wch/article?mid=4505&prev=4421&next=4270)

I was busy even on Sunday. I went to the Repulse Bay to be a guest to declare the start of the Beach Run on 930am, then I backed to Central to attend my party's AGM and it had been held until 6pm. A new leadership was elected but I failed to win the support to be elected as a central committee member. However, I was elected as a member of the standing committee of HK Island Branch of my party a few weeks ago. It proved that for a young man like me, there are still a lot of work to do to convince people who don't know me well to take up a position with greater responsibility.

PS: The Beach Run was held exactly at the Seaview Building of Repulse Bay that we'd been fighting to preserve and stop the privatization.(Ref.: http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/our_wch/article?mid=4505&prev=4421&next=4270)

上圖是我和黃靈新議員在開步跑前的留影。

Mr Vincent Wong, district councillor for Aberdeen, and I were the guests of the Beach Run.