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League plans recovery after damaging split

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The League of Social Democrats leadership has laid out plans it hopes will help it recover from a damaging split that has seen party founder Raymond Wong Yuk-man and legislator Albert Chan Wai-yip quit, taking more than 200 members with them.

Chairman Andrew To Kwan-hang said the 1,000-strong league had received 24 withdrawal notifications from members by Wednesday, since Wong and Chan's announcement on Sunday.

The number of seats the party holds on the Legislative Council decreased from three to one, with remaining lawmaker 'Long Hair' Leung Kwok-hung yet to decide whether he will stay or leave.

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'It is time to move on again,' To said of the party's plans for the future.

The most urgent task was to retain the league's talisman lawmaker, Leung, he said.

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Emerging from a spate of internal conflicts that ended in the parting of ways, To said the group should now focus on community work.

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