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ARCHIVE: Macao, China – 28 September 2024
1. Macao’s sole Chief Executive candidate, former top judge Sam Hou Fai, walks into press conference and sits down
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2. Various of ruins of St.Pauls Church, a Macao landmark, with tourists milling around
3. Wide of old bridge connecting Macao with Taipa, with new casino buildings in background
4. New Lisboa Casino
5. Various of casino building exteriors ++NIGHT SHOTS++
6. Set up shots of Ieong Meng U, Assistant Professor at Department of Government and Public Administration, University of Macao
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ieong Meng U, Assistant Professor at Department of Government and Public Administration, University of Macao:
"I don’t think he will have a very significant change on the current industrial structures of Macao. So Macao will be at least, in the next five or ten years, it will still highly relying on gambling industry, gambling industry is just too important for Macao."
8. Various set up shots of former Macao legislator Au Kam-sun
9. SOUNDBITE (Cantonese) Au Kam-sun, former Macao legislator:
"The slow legal development, the connections between government and business, the legal system is not comprehensively developed, these are all long-standing problems in society. So now, if we’ve going to have a judge, before it wasn’t a judge, now if it’s going to be a judge, perhaps it’ll get better, Macao people think like this, so this change, from top judge to chief executive, people in Macao are not so much against this, and think, ‘OK, why not see how it goes’."
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ARCHIVE: Macao, China – 28 September 2024
10. Sam leaving press conference and waving
STORYLINE:
About 400 Beijing loyalists will begin voting on Sunday to endorse Macao’s sole candidate for the Chinese casino hub’s top job, set to make him the first city leader born from mainland China in a largely ceremonial election.
Former top judge Sam Hou Fai’s expected victory within hours marks a departure from the long-standing custom of having chief executives who were born in the former Portuguese colony, typically from influential business families.
With the city’s leadership shifting to a man from the legal profession, analysts say it will create expectations of potentially decreased influence from business circles, which critics have often accused of colluding with the officials. They anticipate Beijing’s policy agenda for the city will take priority.
During the nomination period, Sam, 62, is widely seen to have had Beijing’s blessing.
He already secured endorsements from 386 of the 400 election committee members who will vote on Sunday.
Although Sam’s victory is guaranteed, the real challenges await in the governance hurdles that lie ahead.
Macao is the only place in China where casino gambling is legal, yet Beijing has called for the city to diversify its gaming-reliant economy.
Sam has promised to accelerate the current government’s plan to boost the tourism and leisure industry and other sectors such as traditional Chinese medicine, finance, and exhibition and commerce.
However, the city still needs to bank on the gambling industry for government revenues to support the city’s welfare and accomplish other goals laid out by Beijing, according to analysts.
"I don’t think he will have a very significant change on the current industrial structures of Macao," said Ieong Meng U, Assistant Professor at the University of Macao’s Department of Government and Public Administration.
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