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Nathan Law quits as chairman of Demosisto, the Hong Kong localist party he founded with Joshua Wong, after ‘political storms’

Young pro-democracy activist and former lawmaker announces he is stepping aside to ‘think about the road ahead’

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Nathan Law announced he had stepped down on Wednesday. Photo: K.Y. Cheng
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A former opposition lawmaker announced on Wednesday that he had quit his post as chairman of Demosisto, the political party he founded two years ago with his ally Joshua Wong Chi-fung to advocate Hong Kong self-determination.

Pro-democracy activist Nathan Law Kwun-chung, 24, said he had stepped down as he wanted a “respite” from years in the “vortex of political storms” as well as “time to rally [his] forces and think about the road ahead”.

At the same time, Demosisto vice-chairwoman Tiffany Yuen Ka-wai said she had quit the party, citing differences with its new direction.

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Wong, the poster boy of the Occupy movement, remains the party’s secretary general. 

I need time to rally my forces and think about the road ahead
Nathan Law
Demosisto was formed in 2016, evolving from the student group Scholarism, of which Wong and Law were core leaders. They and fellow student leader Alex Chow Yong-kang had actively taken part in the 2014 Occupy protests for greater democracy, also known as the umbrella movement.
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