Demosisto
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Demosistō
香港眾志 |
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| Chairman | Nathan Law |
| Vice-Chairman | Oscar Lai |
| Secretary-General | Joshua Wong |
| Founded | 10 April 2016 |
| Preceded by | Scholarism |
| Ideology |
Direct democracy Liberalism (Hong Kong) Localism Social progressivism |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| Regional affiliation | Pro-democracy camp |
| Colours | Turquoise |
| Legislative Council |
1 / 70
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| District Councils |
0 / 458
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| Website | |
| www |
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| Traditional Chinese | 香港眾志 | ||||||||
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| Literal meaning | Hong Kong's popular will | ||||||||
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| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Hēung góng jung ji |
| Jyutping | Hoeng1gong2 zung3zi3 |
Demosistō (/ˌdɛməˈsɪstoʊ/; Chinese: 香港眾志) is a centre-leftpro-democracy political party in Hong Kong established on 10 April 2016. Led by the former leaders of Scholarism, Joshua Wong, Agnes Chow and Oscar Lai and former secretary-general of the Hong Kong Federation of Students (HKFS) Nathan Law, the two student activist groups which played an instrumental role in the 79-day occupy protests known as the Umbrella Revolution in 2014.
The party advocates a referendum to determine Hong Kong's sovereignty 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.
The party proposes four major missions: self-initiation, self-standing, autonomy and self-determination.
The name is derived from the Greek "demos" ("δημο", meaning "people", from which the English word "democracy" is derived) and Latin "sisto" (meaning "to stand", from which English words such as "insist", "persist" and "resist" are derived). Literally translated as "people to stand" in English, it means "stand for democracy", or "stand for the people". The Chinese name means "the will of the people".
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