Liberal Party honourary chairman James Tien Pei-chun says party members will lobby defeated Legislative Council candidate Miriam Lau Kin-yee to stay on as party chairwoman.
Lau said she had decided to resign after failing to win on Hong Kong Island in her first attempt to gain a directly elected seat.
But Tien said on Tuesday that her defeat was a loss not only to the Liberal Party, but also to the Legislative Council and Hong Kong.
“She is a very good legislator,” he said.
Tien said the party would convene an executive committee meeting and a members’ plenary meeting to discuss whether to accept Lau’s resignation.
“Our case is opposite to Albert Ho Chun-yan’s,” Tien said, in reference to the Democratic Party chairman who quit over his party’s poor showing at the polls.