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Demosisto

Demosistō
香港眾志
ChairmenNathan Law
Ivan Lam
FounderNathan Law
Joshua Wong
Agnes Chow
Founded10 April 2016
Dissolved30 June 2020
Preceded byScholarism
Membership (2017)25
IdeologyLiberalism (HK)[1]
Progressivism[2]
Left-wing localism[3]
Political positionCentre-left[4]
Regional affiliationPro-democracy camp
Colours  Turquoise
Demosisto
Traditional Chinese香港眾志
Simplified Chinese香港众志
Literal meaningHong Kong's popular will

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]

  1. ^ a b "About Us". Archived from the original on 14 May 2018. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
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  3. ^ 袁彌昌 (10 September 2016). 筆陣：香港新左翼的崛起 ／文：袁彌昌. Ming Pao (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 15 August 2018. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
  4. ^ "Interview: Joshua Wong (黃之鋒)". New Bloom Magazine. 29 April 2016. Archived from the original on 1 July 2020. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
  5. ^ 黃之鋒周庭新政黨Demosistō 中文名曝光. Apple Daily. 6 April 2016. Archived from the original on 9 April 2016. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
  6. ^ a b "Joshua Wong's party named 'Demosisto'". RTHK. 6 April 2016. Archived from the original on 19 April 2016. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ 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.

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