Mr Benjamin Pwee has left the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to "join a bigger, more effective one" - and hopes other opposition members will do the same.
Mr Pwee, 51, who was secretary-general of the DPP, declined to name the other party, saying he would leave it to that party's leaders to announce his membership.
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