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1976 Macanese Legislative Election
1976 Macanese legislative election was held in Portuguese Macau on 11 July 1976, returning 17 members of the Legislative Assembly of Macau, with 6 directly elected by electorates, 6 indirectly elected by special interest groups and 5 appointed by the Governor. Carnation Revolution in 1974 by the left-leaning military officers overthrew the Portuguese Government. The new government started the transition to democracy and decolonization in various colonies, including Macau which the sovereignty could be handed back to China. Democratic reforms were implemented in the city, such as the introduction of democratic elected seats in the Legislative Assembly through the newly enacted Organic Statute of Macau. This was the first election after the legislature was revamped. Only those with Portuguese nationality or the descendants of Portuguese people were eligible to vote, and hence the Chinese cannot elect the members. Five out of six directly elected seats were won by Macau-born Port ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legislative Assembly Of Macau
The Legislative Assembly of the Macau Special Administrative Region (; ) is the organ of the legislative branch of Macau. It is a 33-member body comprising 14 directly elected members, 12 indirectly elected members representing functional constituencies and 7 members appointed by the chief executive. It is located at Sé. Charter The assembly has the following charter: # To enact, amend, suspend or repeal laws; # To examine and approve budgets; and examine the report on audit; # To decide on taxation and approve debts to be undertaken by the government # To debate the policy addresses by the Chief Executive; # To debate any issue concerning public interests; # To receive and handle complaints from Macau residents Election results Legislative assembly buildings The assembly sits at a special Legislative Assembly building, a modern three-storey structure located in the Nam Van area. From 1784 to 1999, the Assembly met at the Leal Senado Building. Selection methods A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carnation Revolution
The Carnation Revolution ( pt, Revolução dos Cravos), also known as the 25 April ( pt, 25 de Abril, links=no), was a military coup by left-leaning military officers that overthrew the authoritarian Estado Novo regime on 25 April 1974 in Lisbon, producing major social, economic, territorial, demographic, and political changes in Portugal and its overseas colonies through the Processo Revolucionário Em Curso. It resulted in the Portuguese transition to democracy and the end of the Portuguese Colonial War. The revolution began as a coup organised by the Armed Forces Movement ( pt, Movimento das Forças Armadas, links=no, MFA), composed of military officers who opposed the regime, but it was soon coupled with an unanticipated, popular civil resistance campaign. Negotiations with African independence movements began, and by the end of 1974, Portuguese troops were withdrawn from Portuguese Guinea, which became a UN member state. This was followed in 1975 by the independence of C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1976 In Macau
Events from the year 1976 in Portuguese Macau. Incumbents * Governor - José Eduardo Martinho Garcia Leandro Events February * 17 February - The approval of Organic Statute of Macau. References {{Asia topic, 1976 in Years of the 20th century in Macau Macau Macau Macau or Macao (; ; ; ), officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (MSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China in the western Pearl River Delta by the South China Sea. With a pop ... 1970s in Macau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1976 Elections
The following elections occurred in the year 1976. Africa * 1976–1977 Guinea-Bissau legislative election * 1976 Malawian general election * 1976 Mauritanian presidential election * 1976 Tiris El Gharbiya parliamentary by-election (Mauritania) * 1976 Mauritian general election Asia * 1976 Cambodian parliamentary election * 1976 Japanese general election * 1976 Singaporean general election Australia * 1976 New South Wales state election * 1976 Tasmanian state election Europe * 1976 Gibraltar general election * 1976 Irish presidential election * 1976 Italian general election * 1976 Maltese general election * 1976 Polish legislative election * 1976 Portuguese presidential election * 1976 Portuguese legislative election * 1976 Portuguese local election * 1976 Stockholm municipal election * 1976 Swedish general election France * 1976 French cantonal elections Germany * 1976 West German federal election The Americas Canada * 1976 Brantford municipal election * 1976 Ont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Centre Of Macau
Democratic Centre of Macau (; ; CDM) is a centre-left progressive Portuguese political association based in Macau, then a Portuguese colony. Founded on 30 April 1974, five days after the Carnation Revolution, it remains the only registered political association in Macau, different from the better-known civic associations. Objectives Aiming to contribute to the exercise of civil and political rights and the political participation in Macau, the CDM pushes for the democratic progress in Macau, and advocates free, active, enlightened, and conscious participation of citizens in public with democratic experience. The CDM also urges to defend the principles set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and to sign International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. History On 30 April 1974, leftists and Armed Forces Movement met in Fat Siu Lau restaurant in Macau for the first time, including lawyer Joaqui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anabela Fátima Xavier Sales Ritchie
Anabela Fátima Xavier Sales Ritchie ( zh, 林綺濤; born May 25, 1949) is a politician from Macau. She served as president of the Legislative Assembly of Macau, the first woman to hold the position. Ritchie was born in Macau to a family with both Chinese and Portuguese ancestry; both of her grandmothers were full-blooded Chinese. Her parents, both Macanese, were civil servants. She gained a master's degree in Germanic philology from the University of Lisbon in 1971, following it with a diploma in pedagogic sciences from the same institution. She taught in Lisbon from 1971 until 1974 before returning to Macau, where she continued teaching from 1975 until 1986. In that year she was appointed to a seat on the Legislative Assembly, of which she served as vice-president. In 1992 Carlos Augusto Corrêa Paes D'Assumpção, then serving as president of the Assembly, died suddenly, and Ritchie was elected to succeed him. She served in the post until the handover of Macau to China in 1999, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kwong Bing Yun
Kuang () is a Chinese surname originated from central China. Although Kuang is not amongst the 100 most common Chinese surnames, it is common amongst the Chinese diaspora in Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Philippines, United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Fiji, Thailand, Peru, Cuba, Burma, Indonesia and Reunion Island. Origin Since the Han Dynasty, the Kuang family had a prominent role in the Han aristocracy. Several high generals and commissioners were from the Kuang clan, the last recorded Kuang aristocracy was of the Ming Dynasty. Since the collapse of the Han Dynasty and the start of an era of political unrest, during the Three Kingdoms period in 220 CE, several members of the Kuang clan migrated south in pursuit of a brighter future for their descendants in more fertile and peaceful lands. Variations Variations of the surname Kwong are also common. These include different spellings of the English term, and versions from other countries and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susana Chou
Susana Chou Vaz da Luz (born 2 December 1941), also known as Chou Kei-jan and Cao Qizhen, is a Macau politician who served as the President of the Legislative Assembly of Macau from 1999 to 2009. Biography Chou's ancestral hometown is the current Yinzhou District of the city of Ningbo in China's Zhejiang Province. Chou was born in Shanghai on 2 December 1941, and is the oldest daughter of Chao Kuang Piu, who was an industrial tycoon in Shanghai. While her father moved in Hong Kong after 1949, Chou remained in China until 1968 when she moved to Macau. Chou studied physics and majored in radio technology at the Anhui University. Chou also studied French language and literature in Paris. Politics In 1976, Chou participated in Portuguese Macau's first direct election of the Legislative Assembly, and was successful in the election. From 1984 to 1999, she served in the third, fourth, fifth and sixth sessions of Portuguese Macau's Legislative Assembly. After the transfer of sove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ho Yin
Ho Yin (; 1 December 1908 – 6 December 1983) was a businessman, politician and senior leader of the Chinese community in Macau. Biography Ho Yin was born in Panyu, in the Pearl River Delta region, north of Macau on 1 December 1908, when China was still ruled by the imperial family of the Qing Dynasty.In the name of the father '' South China Morning Post'', 16 May 1999 He was an important diplomatic intermediary between the and the anti-Communist '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Eduardo Martinho Garcia Leandro
José Eduardo Martinho Garcia Leandro (born 1939) is a Portuguese lieutenant-general and former colonial administrator. he is currently a member of the General Council of Universidade Aberta, professor at the Institute of Political Studies at the Catholic University of Portugal, curator and administrator of the Jorge Álvares Foundation and corresponding academic at the International Academy of Portuguese Culture. Biography Leandro began his military career at the Colégio Militar in 1950. He joined the Military Academy in 1957, where he completed the Artillery course in 1960. Later, he had mobilized for various service commissions in Angola, Guinea, Timor and Macau. He served as chief of staff of Governor of Timor from 1968 to 1970. On 19 November 1974, he was appointed the Governor of Macau, replacing José Manuel de Sousa e Faro Nobre de Carvalho. During his tenure, he drew up the ''Estatuto Orgânico de Macau'', an organic law which was later approved by Portuguese legislat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Handover Of Macau
The transfer of sovereignty of Macau (; pt, Transferência da soberania de Macau) from Portugal to the People's Republic of China (PRC) occurred on 20 December 1999. Macau was settled by Portuguese merchants in 1557, during the Ming dynasty and was subsequently under various degrees of Portuguese rule until 1999. Portugal's involvement in the region was formally recognised by the Qing dynasty in 1749. The Portuguese governor João Maria Ferreira do Amaral, emboldened by the First Opium War and the Treaty of Nanking, attempted to annex the territory, expelling Qing authorities in 1846, but was assassinated. Mayers, William Frederick (1902). Treaties Between the Empire of China and Foreign Powers' (4th ed.). Shanghai: North-China Herald. pp. 156–157. After the Second Opium War, the Portuguese government, along with a British representative, signed the 1887 Sino-Portuguese Treaty of Peking that gave Portugal perpetual colonial rights to Macau on the condition that Portugal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Organic Statute Of Macau
The Organic Statute of Macau ( pt, Estatuto Orgânico de Macau, EOM; ) was a Portuguese organic law (Law No. 1/76) that provided for government in Portuguese Macau. Approved on 17 February 1976, the Portuguese legislation also reclassified Macau as a "Chinese territory under Portuguese administration" (''território chinês sob administração portuguesa''). The organic statute was successively amended by Law No. 53/79 of 14 September 1979, Law No. 13/90 of 10 May 1990, and Law No. 23-A/96 of 29 July 1996. On December 20, 1999, the organic statute ceased to have effect following the implementation of the Macau Basic Law, as the territory became a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China. See also * Portuguese Macau * Hong Kong Royal Instructions (esp. the ones from 1917) and Hong Kong Letters Patent The expression Hong Kong Letters Patent is most commonly used to refer to the Hong Kong Letters Patent 1917, one of the principal constitutional docume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
