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[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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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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- ^ 眾志組織宗旨「民主自決」字眼改為「民主與進步價值」. RTHK. 11 January 2020. Archived from the original on 12 January 2020. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
- ^ Ho, Kelly; Grundy, Tom (30 June 2020). "Joshua Wong's pro-democracy group Demosisto disbands hours after Hong Kong security law passed". Hong Kong Free Press. Archived from the original on 3 July 2020. Retrieved 30 June 2020.