The New Macau Association (AMN) is a major pro-democratic political party in the Chinese Special Administrative Region of Macau. The party was established in 1992 and the founding chairman was António Ng Kuok Cheong, who departed from the then-mainstream livelihood faction and called for political reform in the colony. The current chairman is Icy Kam Sut Leng. At the election in 2005, the group won a plurality of 18.8% of the popular vote and 2 out of 12 popular elected seats. At the 2009 election, the association split into two electoral lists – the New Democratic Macau Association and the Prosperous Democratic Macau Association. The two lists combined won 19.35% of popular vote and 3 seats in the legislature. In the 2013 election the association was split into three electoral lists with the addition of New Macau Liberals.
In July 2014, AMN's newly elected vice president, Bill Chou Kwok Ping, was suspended without pay from his position as a political scientist at the University of Macau, after he advocated universal suffrage in a move seen by students, alumni and fellow academics as part of a slide towards unprecedented censorship in Macau's universities.Macau scholars warn of rising censorship, loss of confidence in 'one country, two systems', SCMP, 22 July 2014
In mid-October 2014, both AL deputies António Ng Kuok Cheong and Au Kam San intend to seek more independence away from AMN and further reduce the financial support to AMN and that includes 20% of their salary. Both Ng and Au would remain members of AMN but would operate within their own policies rather than AMN's board.
Directly elected legislative assembly deputies António Ng Kuok Cheong, 1992–present (Quit the association in 2017) Au Kam San, 2001–present (Quit the association in 2016) Paul Chan Wai Chi, 2009–2013 Sulu Sou Ka Hou, 2017–present
Chairs António Ng Kuok Cheong, 10 July 1992 – 10 July 1994 Lok Wai Chong (陸偉聰), 10 July 1994 – 10 July 1996 Tong Ka Io (湯家耀), 10 July 1996 – 10 July 1998 Au Kam Ming (區錦明), 10 July 1998 – 10 July 2000 Tong Ka Io (湯家耀), 10 July 2000 – 10 July 2002 Au Kam Ming (區錦明), 10 July 2002 – 10 July 2004 Carlos Sin Doe Ling (冼道寧), 10 July 2004 – 10 July 2006 Paul Chan Wai Chi, 10 July 2006 – 10 July 2010 Jason Chao Teng Hei, 10 July 2010 – 10 July 2014 Sulu Sou Ka Hou (蘇嘉豪), 10 July 2014 – August 2015 Scott Chiang Meng Hin (鄭明軒), August 2015 – 2017 Kam Sut leng (甘雪玲), August 2017 – present
Legislative Assembly elections Election Number ofpopular votes % ofpopular votes Directseats FCseats Appointedseats Total seats +/− Position 1992 3,412 12.39 1 0 0 1 3rd 1996 7,439 8.73 1 0 0 0 6th 2001 16,961 20.95 1 0 0 0 1st 2005 23,472 18.80 2 0 0 1 1st 2009 27,448 19.35 3 0 0 1 1st 2013 23,039 15.73 2 0 0 1 2nd 2017 19,291 11.18 2 0 0 0 2nd
See also Politics of Macau Legislative Assembly of Macau
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