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Macao's Chief Executive Election Law endorsed
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-04-06 11:23
The Chief Executive Election Law of the Macao Special Administrative Region
came into effect on Tuesday after the bill passed by the Macao Legislative
Council was endorsed by the incumbent chief executive Edmund Ho Hau Wah.
The Legislative Council made an article-by-article vote to pass the
162-article Election Bill at its plenum on April 1, which will regulate the
election of the second chief executive of the Macao SAR government.
Under the law, the election of a 300-member election committee, which
comprises of representatives from all works of life, will begin 15 days later
and finalize around June 27. The number of electors is 100 more than that of the
previous election session, which was held five years ago to elect the first
chief executive of the Macao SAR government upon Macao's return to the
motherland in 1999.
Based on the timing, the election of Macao's next chief executive will be
officially launched in late August.
Cheong Weng Chon, director of the Legal Affairs Bureau said that his bureau
will hold a series of explanatory lectures to help citizens and societies in
participating in the election.
Publicity of the new election law will be a priority work of the bureau this
year, said Cheong adding that the bureau will soon publish the texts of the
Election Law in Chinese, Portuguese and English as well as some publicity
manuals. The versions and related documents and materials on legal knowledge of
the law will also be available on the bureau's website.
The incumbent Chief Executive Edmund Ho Hau Wah will finish his five-year
term on Dec. 19. The election of Macao's next Chief Executive shall be held no
later than 60 days before the current office-holder's term expires, according to
the law.
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