The 2014 Macanese Chief Executive election was held on 31 August 2014 for the 4th term of the

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(CE), the highest office of the

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. Incumbent Chief Executive

Fernando Chui Fernando Chui Sai-on (; born 13 January 1957) is a Macau politician who served as the 2nd Chief Executive of Macau from 2009 to 2019. He served as Secretary for Social and Cultural Affairs from 1999 to 2009. Chui was born in 1957 to local c ...

was re-elected without contest.

Background

On the 16 July 2014 current Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai-on announced his bid for reelection for CE office and promised "a relatively radical change" within his government. No other candidates has announced any intention to run for the CE office. On the 21 July, CE Fernando Chui Sai On was able to secure more than 66 electoral colleges, which the threshold raised from 50 in the last election following the expansion of Election Committee.

Candidates

* Fernando Chui Sai-on: Incumbent

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Civil vote

During the election

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held rallies against the small circle undemocratic CE election.

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, Macau Youth Dynamics and Open Macau Society organised 2014 Macanese Chief Executive referendum at which 7,762 (89%) voted having no confidence in the sole candidate Fernando Chui and 8,259 (95%) voted in favour of universal suffrage for the 2019 election. The referendum was deemed illegal and breached of privacy by the Government of Macau.

Results

On 31 August 2014, Fernando Chui Sai-on was re-elected unopposed with total of 380 electoral college with 95.96% of total votes. 3 members of the Election Committee were absent and 1 was late. Chui promised to take opinions from more public and civil group, and will fulfill all he promises during his campaign. However he stayed muted about the new secretaries. , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" ! colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" , Candidates ! style="text-align:left;" , Parties ! width="75" , Votes ! width="30" , % , - , style="background-color:" , , style="text-align:left;" , Fernando Chui Sai-on , style="text-align:left;" ,

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Official results by the General Audit Committee

References

{{Macanese elections 2014 elections in Asia 2014 in Macau August 2014 events Single-candidate elections Indirect elections