Decline
With the abolition of the election committee LegCo seats in 2004 election, the HKPA had an internal dispute on whether the party should send members for geographical direct elections. David Chu Yu-lin intended to run for a seat in New Territories East, and did start working on it, but he suddenly decided to quit in late July. Tang Siu-tong also declined to run for re-election.
After that the party decided to let Dr. Cho Wang Wai to run for the election in New Territories East only (though there's rumour that an independent candidate in New Territories West, Chow Ping-Tim, was actually a member of HKPA). However, some outsiders think that HKPA was insincere in participating in direct elections and the dispute shows the party came to a decline.
HKPA has merged with Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB) since 16 February 2005.
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