Ho appoints 8 new ExCo members, keeps 3
The Office of the 5th Chief Executive yesterday announced the list of the 11 members of the Executive Council (ExCo) – the chief executive’s top advisory body – comprising eight new and three reappointed councillors, all of them male.According to Article 50 (8) of the Macau Basic Law, it is the chief executive who appoints or removes the ExCo members. Article 56 states that the council “shall be an organ for assisting the chief executive in policy making”, while Article 57 states that