Hong Kong: With the main opposition Civic Party ceasing operations, Hong Kong’s democracy is on the “verge of collapse.” According to The Singapore Post, the current circumstances have made the pro-democracy party in Hong Kong less relevant.
Reportedly, after China implemented the national security law in Hong Kong in June 2020, things have started to change for all the democratic institutions. According to a story in The Singapore Post, the Civic Party has joined the list of institutions in Hong Kong that are no longer relevant.
Alan Leong, the chairman of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy Civic Party, said that after 16 years of operation in the city, the party will be disbanding. After receiving no nominations for posts on the executive committee, he made the announcement.
According to the news report, Leong stated that the Civic Party had not received any nominations for the position of the next executive committee and emphasised that they had no choice but to take action to dissolve the party pending a final vote at an emergency general meeting that was planned to be held at the earliest in February.
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Civic Party one of the main anti-government organisations in Hong Kong
According to the news source, Civic Party, which presently has more than 300 members, was one of the main anti-government organisations in Hong Kong. Two years after the National Security Law went into effect, the party had lost many of its leaders. On December 17, the Civic Party will conduct its annual general meeting. To adopt a resolution to dissolve the Civil Party Limited and select a liquidator, the party summoned an emergency meeting.
In an open letter published in April, four former Civic Party lawmakers who have been accused of violating the national security statute demanded that the party dissolve. According to a story in The Singapore Post, the letter was authored by former party leaders Alvin Yeung, Jeremy Tam, Kwok Ka-ki, and Lee Yue-shun.
These leaders are among the 47 prominent politicians who have been accused of conspiring to subvert the will of the people in the unofficial legislative primary elections that took place in July 2020.
The Civic Party was established in 2006 and has held seats in the Legislative Council since 2008. Alvin Yeung, Dennis Kwok, Kwok Ka-ki, and Kenneth Leung, four of its members, were expelled from the legislature in November 2020 for being “unpatriotic.”
As a result of their disqualification, opposition legislators resigned in large numbers. Observers emphasised that the Civic Party’s demise was “inevitable” following a string of its anti-Hong Kong actions. Its demise demonstrated that Hong Kong residents were no longer amenable to disruptive forces.
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US and the West have “monopolised the narrative of democracy”
According to the report, the US and the West have “monopolised the narrative of democracy,” which has caused China to be perceived as “authoritarian” and “undemocratic.”
According to a report in The Singapore Post, China has developed its own definition of democracy, with President Xi Jinping stating that the “whole-process people’s democracy” is a fusion of electoral democracy and consultative democracy during a visit to the civic centre in Shanghai.
Xi Jinping referred to “whole-process people’s democracy” as a distinguishing trait of socialist democracy during the opening session of the 20th CPC National Congress. The national security law that China adopted in June 2020 has left opposition parties in ruins.
The six Democratic Party legislators resigned five months after the national security law went into effect, joining other opposition members in their protest of the top legislative body of China’s decision to disqualify four of their comrades.
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