Ho Ion Sang, a vice-president of the Macau General Union of Neighbourhood Associations (Kai Fong), heads the UPP.
While Ching’s group failed to win a seat, Ho’s group’s won one seat.
Speaking to The Macau Post Daily yesterday in a phone interview, Ching said he submitted about 600 candidacy nomination signatures to the Legislative Assembly Electoral Affairs Committee (CAEAL) a few months ago. He said he suspected that some of his supporters might have voted by mistake for the Progress Promotion Union (UPP) as both groups’ logos looked “similar”.
This screenshot from the Legislative Assembly Electoral Affairs Committee’s (CAEAL) website shows the logos of New Ideals of Macau (left), No.1 on Sunday’s ballot, and Progress Promotion Union (UPP), No.2 on the ballot.
