People Power sees another high-profile exit: chairman Christopher Lau
Lau’s resignation comes less than a month after maverick lawmaker Wong Yuk-man announced his high-profile resignation from the party, which he co-founded in 2011.
Christopher Lau Gar-hung has resigned as People Power's chairman after two years in the post, dealing yet another blow to the radical pan-democratic party.
Lau’s decision, announced on Thursday morning, comes less than a month after maverick lawmaker Wong Yuk-man announced his high-profile resignation from the party, which Wong co-founded in 2011.
Wong’s May resignation was allegedly linked to internal disputes among members of the party, including Lau and the party's financial backer Stephen Shiu Yeuk-yuen.
Wong said he couldn’t support setting up a nominating committee for universal suffrage in the 2017 chief executive elections, despite it being written in the Basic Law.
Lau, a retirement benefits consultant by trade, was more open to the idea, but insisted the proposal should also allow anyone who received 50,000 endorsements from 3.2 million voters citywide to become a candidate.
Wong openly expressed dissatisfaction with Lau’s view, calling it “only a compromise” and suggested the scrapping of the chairman’s post.
