Pro-democrat scholar Benny Tai's " smart voters " plan also ask his participants to vote for Kwong.
Benny Tai's tactical voting plan ThunderGo was also blamed for causing the losses of the veteran pan-democrats, including Kowloon East respectively.
Benny Tai said the root of the matter was the fragmenting of the opposition camp, leading to many candidate lists which led to the need for tactical voting.
Benny Tai and former chief secretary Anson Chan both said the case poses a genuine threat to the " one country, two systems " principle, which China ought to uphold.
At 1 : 30 am, 28 September, Benny Tai, co-initiator of the Occupy Central with Love and Peace movement, declared the official launch of the " Occupy Central " campaign.
As the occupation turned one month old, Chan Kin-man and Benny Tai resumed their teaching duties at universities and OCLP handed over the command of its medic, marshal and supplies teams to the student groups.
Benny Tai and Chan Kin-man left due to exhaustion from attempting to exert a moderating influence on the more radical members of HKFS, and on hardline groups; third parties who have acted as mediators have long been sidelined.
After a failed attempt to block off access to government headquarters overnight on 30 November 2014, OCLP leader Benny Tai urged a full withdrawal to avoid any further physical harm by " out of control " police commanded by " a government that is beyond reason ".