Politics and government of Macau

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Executive Chief Executive: Ho Iat Seng Executive Council Secretariats Administration & Justice Economy & Finance Security Social Affairs & Culture Transport & Public Works Principal offices Commission Against Corruption Commission of Audit Procurator General Commissioner General of the Police Services Director General of the Customs Government Laboratory Health Bureau Post and Telecommunications

Legislature Legislative Assembly President: Kou Hoi In Members Directly elected members Indirectly elected members Appointed members Political camps: Pro-Beijing camp Pro-democracy camp

Judiciary Court of Final Appeal President: Sam Hou Fai Tribunal de Segunda Instância Tribunal Judicial de Base Tribunal Administrativo

Districts Parishes Nossa Senhora de Fátima Santo António São Lázaro São Lourenço Sé Nossa Senhora do Carmo São Francisco Xavier Areas Zona do Aterro de Cotai Ilha de Montanha (Hengqin) Novos Aterros Urbanos de Macau Zone A Zona de Administração de Macau na Ilha Fronteiriça Artificial da Ponte Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau

Elections Political parties Legislative elections 2021

Foreign relations Documents Macau Resident Identity Card Macau SAR Passport Portuguese Passport Consular missions in Macau Hong Kong–Macau relations Macau–United States relations Macau–Peru relations Macau–China relations Macau Liaison Office Office of the Government of the Macau SAR in Beijing Mainland and Macau Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement

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Macau elects at the regional level its head of government and legislature. The Legislative Assembly is made up of 33 members, of whom 14 are elected by popular vote under proportional representation, 12 elected from functional constituencies and 7 appointed by the Chief Executive. The Chief Executive of Macau is returned by a 400-member Election Committee on five-year intervals.

Voter registration and candidacy

Natural persons can register as an elector of direct suffrage to the Legislative Assembly if they:

• have reached 18 years of age;
• are permanent resident of Macau; and
• are not declared by Courts as incompetent persons, deprived of political rights or manifestly insane.

Legal persons can nominate at most 22 electors with natural person suffrage to exercise the collective's voting rights for indirect suffrage to the Legislative Assembly and the Election Committee if they:

• are confirmed to be operating within the specified sector for at least 4 years;
• have obtained legal personality for at least 7 years; and
• for the Election Committee elections, are not in office as the Chief Executive, Principal Officials, Judicial Magistrates, Public Ministers and Members of the Election Management Committee.

Natural persons registered as electors can run for elections of direct suffrage and indirect suffrage in the sector they belong to. Electors can also run for the Election Committee if they are not in office as the Chief Executive, Principal Officials, Judicial Magistrates, Public Ministers and Members of the Election Management Committee.

Legislative Assembly elections

Elections were held to return members of the Legislative Assembly since 1976. Members returned from direct suffrage and indirect suffrage have been elected under proportional representation with seats apportioned under the highest averages method using the D'Hondt method. Suffrage was opened to Macau Residents without Portuguese citizenship in 1984.

Compositions of elected seats in the Legislative Assembly are as follows:

Chief Executive elections

Candidates of the Chief Executive are required to be nominated by at least 50 members of the Election Committee, before he is returned by the Election Committee with an absolute majority. The compositions of electoral colleges returning the Chief Executive are as follows: