The Chief Executive Electoral Affairs Commission (CAECE) announced yesterday that the Chief Executive Election Committee members, 344 of whom will be chosen by an election on August 11, will be required to submit their respective oath-taking declaration forms to the commission between August 19 and 24.
The commission made the announcement on the chief executive election’s website (https://www.ece.gov.mo) yesterday, when the Macau Government Information Bureau (GCS) also issued a statement on the matter.
A total of 344 out of the Chief Executive Election Committee’s 400 members are elected by registered association representatives, while the other 56 members are chosen by a variety of other methods.
This year’s election of the Chief Executive Election Committee members will be held on August 11.
Yesterday’s GCS statement noted that according to the newly amended oath-taking law, which took effect in late May, the Chief Executive Election Committee members are also required to take an oath when taking office. However, the amended law only requires the committee’s members to take their oaths by signing a declaration, unlike all the others such as the chief executive, principal officials, legislators, judges, and prosecutors, who are required to take their oaths of office in person at special ceremonies.
The commission announced yesterday that members of the Chief Executive Election Committee can collect their oath-taking declaration forms at the electoral service counters in the Public Administration Building on Rua do Campo from August 12, i.e., the day after the Chief Executive Election Committee election.
The GCS statement noted that the members must sign their oath-taking declaration forms in compliance with their signatures on their ID cards, after which they will be required to submit the forms to the electoral service counters between August 19 and 24.
The GCS statement said that while members of the Chief Executive Election Committee can choose to collect their oath-taking declaration forms in person or ask a representative to collect the forms for them, they will be required to submit the signed forms in person.
The GCS statement noted that according to the oath-taking law’s amended version, those who intentionally sign a declaration in which the terms of oath have been tampered with are regarded as refusing to take the oath.
According to the amended law, those who are disqualified from taking office after refusing to take an oath of office, or being regarded as refusing to take their oath, will not be allowed to take an oath again, the statement noted.
Before its new amendments took effect on May 28 this year, Macau’s oath-taking law covered the chief executive, principal officials, the president of the Legislative Assembly (AL), the president of the Court of Final Appeal (TUI), the public prosecutor-general, members of the government’s top advisory Executive Council, legislators, judges, and prosecutors. The newly amended law has added members of the Chief Executive Election Committee to its oath-taking requirements.
A woman takes photos of the list of accepted candidates for next month’s Chief Executive Election Committee election on Friday last week after the list was posted on the ground floor of the Public Administration Building on Rua do Campo earlier that day. The final list of accepted candidates was posted there on Sunday. The two lists are identical. – Photo: Tony Wong
