New Macau Association

The New Macau Association (AMN) is a major pro-democratic political party in the Chinese Special Administrative Region of Macau. Macau is a territory in which political parties do not play a role, though some civic groups put forward lists at the elections and might be considered parties. The party was established in 1992 and the founding chairman was António Ng Kuok Cheong, who departed from the then-mainstream livelihood faction and called for political reform in the colony.[1] The current chairman is Icy Kam Sut Leng. At the, 20 September 2009 election, the association split into two electoral lists – the New Democratic Macau Association and the Prosperous Democratic Macau Association. The two lists combined won 19.35% of popular vote and 3 seats in the legislature. At the election in 2005, the group won a plurality of 18.8% of the popular vote and 2 out of 12 popular elected seats. In the 2013 election the association is split into three electoral lists with the addition of New Macau Liberals.

New Macau Association

Associação de Macau Novo
新澳門學社
ChairpersonScott Chiang Meng Hin
Vice PresidentSulu Sou Ka Hou
Jason Chao Teng Hei
Founded1992
IdeologyLiberal democracy
Political positionCentre to centre-left
National affiliationPro-democracy camp
ColoursGreen
Legislative Assembly
2 / 33
Website
www.newmacau.org

In July 2014, AMN's newly elected Vice President, Bill Chou Kwok Ping, was suspended without pay from his position as a political scientist at the University of Macau, after he advocated universal suffrage in a move seen by students, alumni and fellow academics as part of a slide towards unprecedented censorship in Macau's universities.[2]

In mid-October 2014, both AL deputies António Ng Kuok Cheong and Au Kam San intend to seek more independence away from AMN and further reduce the financial support to AMN and that includes 20% of their salary. Both Ng and Au would remind members of AMN but would operate within their own policies rather than AMN's board.[3]

Directly elected legislative assembly deputies

Chairs
  1. António Ng Kuok Cheong, 10 July 1992 – 10 July 1994
  2. Lok Wai Chong (陸偉聰), 10 July 1994 – 10 July 1996
  3. Tong Ka Io (湯家耀), 10 July 1996 – 10 July 1998
  4. Au Kam Ming (區錦明), 10 July 1998 – 10 July 2000
  5. Tong Ka Io (湯家耀), 10 July 2000 – 10 July 2002
  6. Au Kam Ming (區錦明), 10 July 2002 – 10 July 2004
  7. Carlos Sin Doe Ling (冼道寧), 10 July 2004 – 10 July 2006
  8. Paul Chan Wai Chi, 10 July 2006 – 10 July 2010
  9. Jason Chao Teng Hei, 10 July 2010 – 10 July 2014
  10. Sulu Sou Ka Hou (蘇嘉豪), 10 July 2014 – August 2015
  11. Scott Chiang Meng Hin (鄭明軒), August 2015 – 2017
  12. Kam Sut leng (甘雪玲), August 2017 – present

Legislative Assembly elections
Election Number of
popular votes		 % of
popular votes		 Direct
seats		 FC
seats		 Appointed
seats		 Total seats +/− Position
1992 3,412 12.39 1 0 0
1 / 23
 1 3rd
1996 7,439 8.73 1 0 0
1 / 23
 0 6th
2001 16,961 20.95 1 0 0
1 / 27
 0 1st
2005 23,472 18.80 2 0 0
2 / 29
 1 1st
2009 27,448 19.35 3 0 0
3 / 29
 1 1st
2013 23,039 15.73 2 0 0
2 / 33
 1 2nd
2017 19,291 11.18 2 0 0
2 / 33
 0 2nd

See also

References
  1. Yu, Elio Wing-yat; Chin, Natalie Ka-man (2012). "The Political Opposition and Democracy in Macao: Revolutionaries or Loyalists?". Government and Opposition. 47 (1): 101. doi:10.1111/j.1477-7053.2011.01356.x. ISSN 0017-257X.
  2. Macau scholars warn of rising censorship, loss of confidence in 'one country, two systems', SCMP, 22 July 2014
  3. "Ativistas de Macau pedem reforma política junto à Assembleia Legislativa". noticias.sapo.tl. SAPO. Retrieved 17 October 2014.


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