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2025 Macanese Legislative Election
Legislative elections are expected to be held in Macau on 14 September 2025. The elections will return 33 members of the Legislative Assembly of Macau, with 14 directly elected by all electorates, 12 indirectly elected by special interest groups and seven appointed by the Chief Executive 15 days after the announcement of the election results. As a result of the mass disqualification in the last election, more than a dozen of pro-democracy members, including former legislators, are barred from running in this election under the five-year ban. Nomination The authorities confirmed a total of eight candidate lists for the direct election of 14 seats, marking the lowest since the handover. Among the eight "nomination panels", five were from the pro-Beijing camp and only one from pro-democracy camp, after majority of them were disqualified in 2021. The team led by Wong Wai-man, the workman popularly known as "Caption Macau" for his eyebrow-raising stance on politics, was disqualif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 Macanese Legislative Election
Legislative elections were held in Macau on 12 September 2021. This legislative election will return 33 members of the Legislative Assembly of Macau, with 14 directly elected by all electorates, 12 indirectly elected by special interest groups and 7 appointed by the Chief Executive 15 days after the announcement of the election results. The voter turnout rate for the 2021 Legislative Assembly direct election stood at 42 per cent after polls closed, the lowest rate reported since the establishment of the Macau Special Administrative Region in 1999. Mass disqualification The Electoral Affairs Commission for this legislative election unprecedentedly disqualified some 21 candidates who intended to contest in the direct elections. As a result of those 21 hopefuls having been barred from running, five candidate lists consequently became unqualified due to the electoral requirement of a minimum of 4 contenders in each list. All pro-democracy candidates, except José Pereira Cout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patriots Administering Hong Kong
"Patriots administering Hong Kong" () is the principle proposed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that allows only those deemed to be "patriots" to the party and to the Government of China, Chinese government may rule Hong Kong. Heavily emphasised after 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests, massive protests in 2019 and the introduction of the 2020 Hong Kong national security law, national security law next year, this principle effectively bars dissidents, including the Pro-democracy camp (Hong Kong), pro-democracy members, to run for public offices. Origin The principle was first proposed by Deng Xiaoping, then Chairman of the CCP Central Advisory Commission, in 1984. He said the promise of Hong Kong people administering Hong Kong () has its scope, that patriots should form the mainstay. Deng also defined a patriot as to respect one's own nation, to "sincerely support" China to resume exercising sovereignty over Hong Kong, and not to harm the city's prosperity and stability. Evolut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 Elections In China
5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. Humans, and many other animals, have 5 digits on their limbs. Mathematics 5 is a Fermat prime, a Mersenne prime exponent, as well as a Fibonacci number. 5 is the first congruent number, as well as the length of the hypotenuse of the smallest integer-sided right triangle, making part of the smallest Pythagorean triple ( 3, 4, 5). 5 is the first safe prime and the first good prime. 11 forms the first pair of sexy primes with 5. 5 is the second Fermat prime, of a total of five known Fermat primes. 5 is also the first of three known Wilson primes (5, 13, 563). Geometry A shape with five sides is called a pentagon. The pentagon is the first regular polygon that does not tile the plane with copies of itself. It is the largest face any of the five regular three-dimensional regular Platonic solid can have. A conic is determined ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 Hong Kong Legislative Election
The 2025 Hong Kong Legislative Council election is a general election that will be held on 7 December 2025 for the 8th Legislative Council of Hong Kong. Under the new electoral system introduced in 2021, 90 seats to the Legislative Council include 40 seats elected by the 1,500-member Election Committee, 30 seats of trade-based indirectly elected functional constituencies (FCs), and 20 seats of directly elected geographical constituencies (GCs). The current election laws are considered by numerous international governments and NGOs to be neither free nor fair. Only pro-Beijing "patriots" are allowed to run, the majority of opposition pan-democratic members were banned, jailed, or forced into exile. Virtually all opposition parties were intimidated into dissolving by the government and the police. 77.8% of the council is elected by a select few groups of professionals and corporate representatives, while only 22.2% of the whole council are directly elected, resulting in a disp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Synergy Of Macao
The Association of Synergy of Macao ( zh, t=傳新澳門協會; ), often shortened to Synergy of Macao (; ), is a centrist political party in Macau. It is represented in the Legislative Assembly. History The formation of Synergy of Macao was announced on 5 February 2017 by Ron Lam U-tou, a former member of Macao Federation of Trade Unions, along with retired senior civil servant Vitor da Rocha Vai, former editor of ''Macao Daily News'' Ian Heng-ut, and then-vice-convener of Northern District Community Service Consultative Committee Ho Chong-chun. Lam raised concern over discussion of current issues in the society, which he described as rather subjective and lack of analysis. Building a new platform, Synergy of Macao aimed to monitor the government while solving social illnesses through new pathways, hence achieving a fair, free, and just community. The Association was formally registered on 16 March 2017. Although claiming no plan nor intention to join the upcoming Legislative ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pro-democracy Camp (Macau)
The pro-democracy camp ( zh, t=民主派; ) or pan-democracy camp (; ) is a political alignment of politicians and social activists in Macau who support increased democracy and may work together in areas of common interest or by not fielding candidates against one another in elections. Democratic activists are usually critical of the post-1999 Macanese government and the People's Republic of China's authoritarian government, which they say does not properly represent the will of the people. Its supporters also advocate a faster pace of democratization and implementation of universal and equal suffrage. Members of the camp represent a very broad social and political demographic, from the working class to the middle class and professionals. Opposite to the pan-democracy camp is the pro-establishment camp, whose members are perceived to be supportive of the central government of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Hope (Macau)
New Hope (NE, , zh, t=新希望, j=san1 hei1mong6) is a political party in Macau. Its leader, José Pereira Coutinho, has served in the Legislative Assembly of Macao, Legislative Assembly since 2005. In the most recent election on 12 September 2021, the party won 13.81% of the popular vote and 2 out of 14 directly elected seats. The party is the sole representative of the Pro-democracy camp (Macau), pro-democracy camp in the Macau Assembly. Elected AL members * José Pereira Coutinho, 2005–present * Leong Veng Chai, 2013–2017 * Che Sai Wang, 2021–present Legislative Assembly elections References 2005 establishments in Macau Liberal parties in China Political parties established in 2005 Political parties in Macau {{Macau-party-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pro-Beijing Camp (Macau)
The pro-Beijing camp, pro-establishment camp or pro-China camp ( or ; , or ) is a political alignment in Macau which supports the policies and views of the Chinese government and the Chinese Communist Party before and after the handover of Macau on 20 December 1999. The term can be used to identify politicians, political parties and individuals. Their rivals are the pro-democracy camp. History Prior to handover Some of the political groups within the pro-establishment camp, such as the Union for Development and Progress Promotion Union have had a long history of following the directions of the People's Republic of China and of loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party since the colonial period. Policies Pro-establishment members are united by the political ideology or economic policies of being closer to Beijing, as much out of pragmatism as of conviction, but vary on other issues within the context of Macau. Members of the camp Civil organisations, individual social activi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's General Association Of Macau
A woman is an adult female human. Before adulthood, a female child or adolescent is referred to as a girl. Typically, women are of the female sex and inherit a pair of X chromosomes, one from each parent, and women with functional uteruses are capable of pregnancy and giving birth from puberty until menopause. More generally, sex differentiation of the female fetus is governed by the lack of a present, or functioning, ''SRY'' gene on either one of the respective sex chromosomes. Female anatomy is distinguished from male anatomy by the female reproductive system, which includes the ovaries, fallopian tubes, uterus, vagina, and vulva. An adult woman generally has a wider pelvis, broader hips, and larger breasts than an adult man. These characteristics facilitate childbirth and breastfeeding. Women typically have less facial and other body hair, have a higher body fat composition, and are on average shorter and less muscular than men. Throughout human history, traditional gen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union For Promoting Progress
The General Union of Neighbourhood Associations of Macau ( zh, t=澳門街坊會聯合總會; ), sometimes shortened to the GUNA or the Neighbourhood Union ( zh, t=街坊總會, links=no or zh, t=街總, labels=no), is a pro-Beijing political party in Macau Macau or Macao is a special administrative regions of China, special administrative region of the People's Republic of China (PRC). With a population of about people and a land area of , it is the most List of countries and dependencies by p ... that is represented in the Legislative Assembly. History The General Union of Neighbourhood Associations of Macau (GUNA) was formed on 30 December 1983 with a call for unity among Macanese following social changes brought by the Chinese Government's reform policies. The GUNA provided services ranging from child to elderly care as well as education and basic community services. It was regarded as part of the traditional faction within the pro-Beijing camp. The GUNA was offi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
