Macao's Chief Executive Election Law comes into effect

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Macao's Chief Executive Election Law comes into effect

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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 helpcitizens 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 soonpublish 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 willalso be available on the bureau's website.

The incumbent Chief Executive Edmund Ho Hau Wah will finish hisfive-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.

Source: Xinhua

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