The 1999 Macanese Chief Executive election was held on 15 May 1999 for the first

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(CE), the highest office of the

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, before

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was due to be handed back to China by

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Edmund Ho Edmund Ho Hau-wah, GOIH, GML, GCM (born 13 March 1955) is a Macau politician who served as the first Chief Executive of the Macau Special Administrative Region from 1999 to 2009. He currently serves as a Vice-Chairman of the Chinese Peop ...

was elected as the first leader of the Macau SAR. This will be the only contested Chief Executive election.

Candidates

* Edmund Ho Hau-wah, former member of the Selection Committee of Macau Special Administrative Region Government * Stanley Au Chong-kit, former member of the Selection Committee of Macau Special Administrative Region Government

Results

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Reactions

Edmund Ho thanked the Selection Committee and Macanese residents for their support after elected as Chief Executive and vowed to uphold " One Country Two Systems" framework. Governor of Macau

Vasco Joaquim Rocha Vieira Vasco Joaquim Rocha Vieira, GCTE GCC GCIH ComA (; b. Lagoa, 16 August 1939), is a retired Portuguese Army officer who was last Governor of Macau. Background He is the son of João da Silva Vieira (b. Lagoa or Faro on 9 November 1913) ...

, the then-leader of the city, congratulated Ho's win and promised a smooth handover of sovereignty. Despite some regarded Au as a democrat challenging the one-man election, Stanley Au was later appointed to the Legislative Assembly by Ho after SAR established, and joined Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in 2005. In 2019, Au described his bid, which made the only contested Chief Executive election in Macau as of now, as naïve.

References

{{Macanese elections 1999 elections in Asia 1999 in Macau May 1999 events in Asia Indirect elections