Civic Party chairman and founder Alan Leong Kah-kit said on Saturday that a new executive committee cannot be formed for the pro-democracy party, leaving it no choice but to dissolve. Leong founded the Civic Party in 2006 with senior counsels Audrey Eu Yuet-mee and Ronny Tong Ka-wah, along with barristers Tanya Chan Suk-chong and Margaret Ng Ngoi-yee. Party members did not participate in the "patriots-only" legislature that took office in January after China's National People's Congress authorized an overhaul of the SAR's electoral system. Tong, who quit the Civic Party in 2015, said it was "unfortunate" and "lamentable" the party may have to disband. Party co-founder Tanya Chan moved to Taiwan last year after she quit the party in 2020.
