Overview
- Members voted 117 of 121 in favor of liquidation, with four blank ballots, party chair Lo Kin-hei said.
- The party will enter formal liquidation after months of preparations covering legal and accounting matters and plans to sell its Kowloon headquarters.
- Senior figures reported being warned by Chinese officials or intermediaries to shut down or risk severe consequences, including possible arrests.
- Founded in 1994, the party built its identity on pushing for universal suffrage before being sidelined by the 2020 national security law and a 2021 electoral overhaul.
- The shutdown extends a wider retrenchment of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement as groups such as the Civic Party and the League of Social Democrats have already closed and many activists are jailed or overseas.