Politics of Macau is a framework of a politically constrained multi-party presidential system,dominated by the People's Republic of China. It includes the legislature,the judiciary,the government,and a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government,led by the Chief Executive.
Leung Kwok-hung,also known by his nickname "Long Hair" (長毛),is a Hong Kong politician and social activist. He was a member of the Legislative Council,representing the New Territories East. A Trotskyist in his youth,he was a founding member of the Revolutionary Marxist League. He became a political icon with his long hair and Che Guevara T-shirt in the protests before he was elected to the Legislative Council in 2004. In 2006,he co-founded a social democratic party,the League of Social Democrats (LSD) of which he was the chairman from 2012 to 2016.
The New Macau Association (AMN) is a major pro-democratic political party in the Chinese Special Administrative Region of Macau. The party was established in 1992 and the founding chairman was António Ng Kuok Cheong,who departed from the then-mainstream livelihood faction and called for political reform in the colony. The current chairman is Icy Kam Sut Leng. At the,20 September 2009 election,the association split into two electoral lists –the New Democratic Macau Association and the Prosperous Democratic Macau Association. The two lists combined won 19.35% of popular vote and 3 seats in the legislature. At the election in 2005,the group won a plurality of 18.8% of the popular vote and 2 out of 12 popular elected seats. In the 2013 election the association is split into three electoral lists with the addition of New Macau Liberals.
Kwok Ka-ki is a democratic Hong Kong former politician. He is a private urology doctor,having graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong. Kwok is a member of the Civic Party,having joined on 19 July 2010. On 11 November 2020,he was disqualified from the Legislative Council,along with three other lawmakers of the pan-democratic camp,by the central government in Beijing on request of the Hong Kong government. A mass resignation of pan-democrats the same day left the Legislative Council without a substantial opposition.
Fernando Chui Sai On 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.
Legislative elections were held in Macau on 15 September 2013 according to the provisions of the Basic Law of Macau. This election was the first of its kind succeeding the reform of the Legislative Assembly that created four new seats;two new geographical constituency seats and two new functional constituency seats. Out of a total of 33 seats,14 were elected by universal suffrage under the highest averages method,while 12 were voted on from the Functional constituency,and 7 from nomination by the Chief Executive.
Lester Shum Ngo-fai is a Hong Kong social activist and politician. He was a leader of the 2014 pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong and served as deputy secretary-general of the Hong Kong Federation of Students (HKFS) from April 2014 to March 2015. He was a member of the Tsuen Wan District Council for Hoi Bun from 2020 to 2021.
Bobby Kaufmann is the Iowa State Representative from the 82nd District. A Republican,he has served in the Iowa House of Representatives since 2013.
Au Nok-hin is a pro-democracy politician in Hong Kong. He is the former member of the Legislative Council for Hong Kong Island from 2018 to 2019 and member of the Southern District Council for Lei Tung I from 2012 to 2019.
The impeachment of Park Geun-hye,President of South Korea,was the culmination of a political scandal involving interventions to the presidency from her aide,Choi Soon-sil. The impeachment vote took place on 9 December 2016,with 234 members of the 300-member National Assembly voting in favour of the impeachment and temporary suspension of Park Geun-hye's presidential powers and duties. This exceeded the required two-thirds threshold in the National Assembly and,although the vote was by secret ballot,the results indicated that more than half of the 128 lawmakers in Park's party Saenuri had supported her impeachment. Thus,Hwang Kyo-ahn,then Prime Minister of South Korea,became Acting President while the Constitutional Court of Korea was due to determine whether to accept the impeachment. The court upheld the impeachment in a unanimous 8–0 decision on 10 March 2017,removing Park from office. The regularly scheduled presidential election was advanced to 9 May 2017,and Moon Jae-in,former leader of the Democratic Party,was elected as Park's permanent successor.
Events in the year 2018 in Hong Kong.
Kuldeep Singh Sengar is an Indian politician and former member of Legislative Assembly belonging to the Bhartiya Janta Party from Unnao district,Uttar Pradesh who has been convicted of rape,murder,attempt to murder,criminal conspiracy and criminal intimidation. He is the main defendant in the Unnao rape case and was booked under the POCSO Act. He is also accused of killing three people,including the victim's father in police custody and later her aunts by a conspired truck accident. A Delhi District and Sessions Court upheld an investigation conducted by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) that had ruled out any foul play in the Unnao rape survivor's accident in 2019.
An unofficial two-part referendum on the Chief Executive of Macau was held in August 2014. Organised by Macau Conscience,Macao Youth Dynamics and Open Macau Society,it asked whether voters supported reforming how the Chief Executive was elected and whether they had confidence in Fernando_Chui,the sole candidate in the 2014 election. Following the organisers' announcement of the proposed referendum,the Macau Government and the Macau Liaison Office issued statements condemning the referendum as "illegal and unconstitutional". Members of the organising committee and volunteers of the referendum were arrested by the police. Despite the forced closure of physical polling stations,the referendum went ahead online between 24 August 2014 and 31 August 2014. The organisers announced that 8,688 (96%) voted in favour of universal suffrage for the 2019 election and 7,762 (89%) voted having no confidence in Fernando Chui.
Alex Tianming Lee is an American politician who has served as a member of the California State Assembly since 2020,having represented the 24th district since 2022 and the 25th district from 2020 to 2022. A member of the Democratic Party,Lee's district includes Fremont,Newark,Sunol,Milpitas,and parts of western San Jose.
Chief Executive elections were held in Macau on 26 July 2009 for the third term of the Chief Executive of Macau (CE),the highest office of the Macau Special Administrative Region. Fernando Chui was elected without contest after incumbent Chief Executive Edmund Ho was ineligible for re-election due to having served two terms.
Chief Executive elections were held in Macau on 31 August 2014 for the fourth term of the Chief Executive of Macau (CE),the highest office of the Macau Special Administrative Region. Incumbent Chief Executive Fernando Chui was re-elected unopposed.
The city held its first National Security Education Day after the national security law had come into force. Chief Executive Carrie Lam emphasized that the law had helped Hong Kong to emerge from the "dark violence" of the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests. National Security Committee Adviser Luo Huining also gave a speech. Even very young children were photographed handling toy weapons,which drew criticism.
The Association of Synergy of Macao,often shortened to Synergy of Macao,is a centrist political party in Macau. It is represented in the Legislative Assembly.
Koo Sze-yiu,also known by his nickname "Long Beard" (長鬚),is a Hong Kong activist,known for being jailed for 12 times over his protests. A former Maoist,Koo became anti-communist after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.
