Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong are probably 20 percent satisfied.

Hong Kong's legislature on Wednesday, Oct. 23 formally withdrew planned legislation that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China, meeting one of the five demands of protesters.

However, months of often-violent unrest is unlikely to end.

Protesters, who have trashed public buildings and thrown petrol bombs at police, have been calling for "five demands, not one less" to be met, which includes universal suffrage -- a non-negotiable with Beijing.

Reuters reported that the move was announced by Security Secretary John Lee.

Pro-democracy legislators immediately shouted slogans demanding his resignation, RTHK reported.

Previously, Hong Kong’s leader Carrie Lam reluctantly agreed to withdraw the extradition Bill two-and-a-half months after anti-government protests escalated in June.

Killing the Bill is definitive, while a withdrawal signalled it could be re-introduced at a later date.

The latest talk is that Lam will be replaced in 2020.

Background

Protesters are angry about what they see as Beijing encroaching on Hong Kong’s "one country, two systems" formula enshrined during the handover from British to Chinese rule in 1997.

That formula allows the city wide-ranging freedoms not available on the mainland, such as an independent judiciary.

The Bill was seen as the latest move by Beijing to erode those freedoms.

China has denied such claims and accuses foreign countries of fomenting trouble.