Political parties are usually defined as a body of people united for promoting interests on some particular principle by their joint endeavours and seeking to elect governmental office-holders under a given label which aim in prevailing over the others so as to get into or stay in power. With the increased government interventions in the socioeconomic spheres in 1970s, pressure groups were formed to articulate interests of different sectors in Hong Kong. These groups strove …showed first 75 words of 1938 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1938 total…Chinese intervention in Hong Kong politics, political parties face such an irreparable challenge that they have ever had before. The Basic Law and the newly-established systems have deliberately limited the influence of political parties in Hong Kong polity. They can find no room for further development. The most they can do is to monitor the government without dominating the representative institutions. The SAR will continue to be executive-led which is immune from any outside impinge.