Demosistō 香港眾志 | |
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Chairmen | Nathan Law Ivan Lam |
Founder | Nathan Law Joshua Wong Agnes Chow |
Founded | 10 April 2016 |
Dissolved | 30 June 2020 |
Preceded by | Scholarism |
Membership (2017) | 25 |
Ideology | Liberalism (HK)[1] Progressivism[2] Left-wing localism[3] |
Political position | Centre-left[4] |
Regional affiliation | Pro-democracy camp |
Colours | Turquoise |
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Traditional Chinese | 香港眾志 | ||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 香港众志 | ||||||||||||
Literal meaning | Hong Kong's popular will | ||||||||||||
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Demosisto (stylised Demosistō) (/ˌdɛməˈsɪstoʊ/)[5] was a pro-democracy political organisation established on 10 April 2016 as a political party. It was led by Joshua Wong and Agnes Chow – former leaders of Scholarism, along with Nathan Law, former secretary-general of the Hong Kong Federation of Students (HKFS). Scholarism and the HKFS were the two student activist groups which played an instrumental role in the 79-day occupy protests known as the Umbrella Revolution in 2014.[6]
Demosistō advocated a referendum to determine Hong Kong's sovereignty with the goal of obtaining autonomy[1] after 2047, when the one country, two systems principle as promised in the Sino-British Joint Declaration and the Hong Kong Basic Law is supposed to expire. It won a seat in the 2016 Legislative Council election with its 23-year-old chairman Nathan Law becoming the youngest candidate ever to be elected.[6] In 2017, Law was disqualified from the Legislative Council over the oath-taking controversy and was imprisoned with Joshua Wong for the storming into the Civic Square during the Umbrella Revolution. After a series of disqualification of the Demosistō candidates, the party passed a resolution in January 2020 to abandon its advocacy for "democratic self-determination".[7] After the passing of the Hong Kong national security law, the party's leadership resigned from their offices and the party disbanded on 30 June 2020.[8]
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