Hong Kong political party finds its name Demosisto has been registered ... as a game
The new political party that arose from Scholarism is still trying to register under the Companies Ordinance; meanwhile it is facing further bank account woes
Step aside Demosisto, the newly formed political party, and make way for Demosisto the game.
It’s been a month since student leader Joshua Wong and friends applied for Demosisto to be registered as a company, but someone has already beaten them to it by registering a game with the same name under the Business Registration Ordinance.
Demosisto the game was registered by an unnamed party with effect from April 8 for a year.
It’s not clear whether the registration of the game, which happens to be about Hong Kong politics, has anything to do with the political group’s application to the Companies Registry, which is still pending approval.
Meanwhile Demosisto the party is struggling to open a bank account to handle its donations as it faces one rejection after another.
The party’s co-founder and deputy secretary general, Agnes Chow Ting, said on her Facebook page that she had received a verbal notice from a Hang Seng Bank regional head that all the functions of her personal account except fund withdrawals had been cancelled from Monday, meaning the party would no longer be able to use it to collect donations.
