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Hong Kongs Democratic Party Votes to Disband After Decades in Opposition

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Lo Kin-hei (C), chairman of Hong Kong’s Democratic Party (DP), attends a press conference at the party’s headquarters in Hong Kong on Dec. 14, 2025. Leung Man Hei/AFP via Getty ImagesHong Kong’s Democratic Party, the city’s longest-standing pro-democracy political party, voted on Sunday to dissolve, marking the latest retreat of the political opposition under Beijing’s sweeping suppression campaign and signaling the effective end of nearly three decades of moderate democratic participation in the city’s politics.The decision was approved at a special members’ meeting on Sunday, where 117 of 121 ballots cast supported disbanding the party, with four abstentions, said party chairman Lo Kin-hei at a press conference.

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