The presidium of the electoral conference for local deputies to the 13th National People’s Congress (NPC) yesterday endorsed 15 local residents as candidates for the election of 12 local NPC deputies that will take place on Sunday.
Of the 15 local residents, eight are sitting deputies in the 12th NPC, which will end in March. Each NPC term is five years.
Legislative Assembly (AL) President Ho Iat Seng, Macau’s only member of the NPC Standing Committee, is among the eight sitting local NPC deputies who are seeking re-election. Ho, a prominent businessman, is the son of late local manufacturing tycoon Ho Tin.
Leong Heng Teng, spokesman of the presidium of the Conference for Electing Deputies of the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) to the 13th National People’s Congress (NPC), shows the media a list of the 15 candidates for the election of 12 local NPC deputies, during a press conference about yesterday’s meeting of the 11-member presidium, at the Macau East Asian Games Dome in Cotai. Photo: Iong Tat Choi
Wang Chen (center, front), vice chairman and secretary-general of the National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, attends the second presidium meeting of the Conference for Electing Deputies of the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) to the 13th NPC, at the Macau Asian Games Domes in Cotai, flanked by Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On (right, front) and Chui’s predecessor, Edmund Ho Hau Wah, vice-chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) in Beijing. Photo: Xinhua
