The Second term of Tung Chee-hwa as Chief Executive of Hong Kong, or Tung administration, officially considered part of "

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", relates to the period of governance of Hong Kong since the

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, between 1 July 2002 and 12 March 2005 until

Tung Chee-hwa Tung Chee-hwa (; born 7 July 1937) is a Hong Kong businessman and politician who served as the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong between 1997 and 2005, upon the transfer of sovereignty on 1 July. He is currently a vice-chairman of the Chin ...

resigned from the office and the rest of the term was taken up by former

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Election

Incumbent Tung Chee-hwa was nominated by the 800-member

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(EC) without contest despite his declining popularity. The pro-democracy camp argued that the electoral process was deliberately designed to obstruct any challenge to Tung.

Cabinet

Under the

Principal Officials Accountability System Principal Officials Accountability System, commonly referred to as the Ministerial system (), sometimes the Accountability System, was introduced in Hong Kong by chief executive Tung Chee Hwa in July 2002. It is a system whereby all principal ...

introduced by Tung Chee-hwa in July 2002, there were 3 Secretaries of Department and 11 Directors of Bureau. Under the new system, all heads of bureaux became members of the Executive Council, and came directly under the Chief Executive instead of the Chief Secretary or the Financial Secretary.

Ministry

Two major officials under serve criticisms resigned during the political crisis in July 2003: Financial Secretary

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resigned in July after the "Lexusgate" scandal and Secretary for Security

Regina Ip Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee (; ' Lau; born 24 August 1950) is a Chinese politician. She is currently the Convenor of the Executive Council (ExCo) and a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (LegCo), as well as the founder and current chair ...

after the controversial

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legislation.

Executive Council non-official members

The Executive Council was headed by Chief Executive and with total of 19 members: 3 secretaries and 11 directors of the bureaux as official members and 5 non-official members. All non-official members except for Convenor

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was newly appointed by Tung Chee-hwa. Tung allied himself with the

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(DAB) and the

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, by appointing chairmen of the Liberal Party and DAB, James Tien and

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to the Executive Council to form a "ruling alliance." On 5 July 2003, James Tien resigned from the ExCo to show objection to the legislation of

, after more than 500,000 people marched on 1 July. Tung later on appointed

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, also from the Liberal Party to replace Tien. In October 2004, Tung appointed two additional non-official members to the Executive Council.

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