TVSELANGOR - SIBU 27 APR: Ketua DAP Sarawak, Wong Ho Leng secara rasmi diumum sebagai calon Pakatan Rakyat pada pilihan raya kecil Parlimen Sibu pada satu majlis makan malam. Beliau sebelum ini pernah bertanding dua kali menentang calon Barisan Nasional (BN), Robert Lau Hoi Chew yang menyandang kerusi itu selama lima penggal tetapi tewas.
Wong adalah adalah antara enam pemimpin DAP yang berjaya memenangi kerusi Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) pada pilihan raya negeri Sarawak 2006.Beliau bakal bertembung Robert Lau Hui Yew, 45, calon BN yang juga Bendahari cawangan Parti Rakyat Bersatu Sarawak (SUPP).
Hui Yew dan Hoi Chew adalah saudara dua pupu.Pengumuman Hui Yew sebagai calon BN dibuat Ketua Menteri Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud.Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya (SPR) menetapkan 8 Mei sebagai hari penamaan calon dan 16 Mei ialah hari mengundi.
Pilihan raya kecil kerusi Parlimen Sibu diadakan berikutan kematian penyandangnya Robert Lau, yang juga Timbalan Menteri Pengangkutan pada 9 April lalu.
Pejabat Ketua Angkatan Muda Keadilan Malaysia
Born on 21 December 1959 in a poor farm ouse in Bukit Igu, Sibu (near Sungai Bidut). He is the fifth child of 14 siblings. Both parents are 78. They are Christians.
Wong Ho Leng was married in 1990 to Irene Chang. Has 5 children (4 girls and 1 boy).
Education
• 1971: completed primary education at Ting Sing Primary School
• 1977: completed Form 5 at Tung Hua Secondary School
• 1978: completed Lower Form Six at Methodist Secondary School
• 1979: completed Year 12 at Ashfield Boys’ High School, Sydney, Australia
• 1980-1984: completed commerce/economic and law degrees from University of New South Wales and Sydney University
Employment
• 1985: declined a good employment offer in Sydney, Australia, and decided to return home to serve the country
• 1985: legal partner in Siong & Wong Advocates, Sibu
Political career
• 1986: joined DAP as a life member on 19th April, 1986
• 1986: contested in Parliamentary election in Miri against Peter Chin Fah Kui
• 1987: contested in State election against Dr. George Chan
• 1988: moved back from Miri to Sibu to practice law
• 1995: contested against Robert Lau Hoi Chew in Parliamentary election in Sibu
• 1996: contested against Deputy Chief Minister Dr Wong Soon Kai and won the state seat of
Bukit Assek
• 1999: contested against Tiong Thai King in Parliamentary election
• 2001: lost in the contest for Bukit Assek in the state election
• 2004: contested, the 2nd time, against Robert Lau Hoi Chew in Parliamentary election
• 2006: contested in Bukit Assek against Daniel Ngieng in state election, wresting back the seat with a thumping majority of 4751 votes
• 2008: Contested the 3rd time against Robert Lau
• Office held:
• 2001 till now – Chairman of DAP Sarawak State Committee
• Vice Chairman of Central Executive Committee, DAP, till 2008
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