2002 Hong Kong Chief Executive election

none 2002 Hong Kong Chief Executive election Hong Kong presidential no 1996 Hong Kong Chief Executive election 1996 2005 Hong Kong Chief Executive election 2005 28 February 2002 All 800 votes of the Election Committee 401 200x200px Tung Chee-hwa Nonpartisan politician Pro-Beijing Uncontested Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa Nonpartisan politician Tung Chee-hwa Nonpartisan politician The 2002 Hong Kong Chief Executive election was to select the second term of the Chief Executive (CE) of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR). Incumbent Tung Chee-hwa was nominated by the 800-member Election Committee (EC) without competition.Bush, Richard C. [2005] (2005). Untying the Knot: Making Peace in the Taiwan Strait. Brookings Institution Press. 0-8157-1288-X. pg 94. Background 2002 Hong Kong Election Committee Subsector by-election The Election Committee (EC) was responsible for electing the Chief Executive (CE). Before the Chief Executive election, a by-election was held on 6 January 2002 to fill the four vacancies in the Election Committee. Incumbent Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa was supported by Chinese leaders for his re-election as early as 2001. Speaking in Myanmar in December 2001, Chinese paramount leader Jiang Zemin stated, "I wish that Mr. Tung will get elected. I am convinced he will get elected." Given the support and certainty of Tung's re-election, many observers argued that not only would it have been futile to oppose Tung or to support another candidate potentially harmful to their business interests in Hong Kong and mainland China. Jiang was previously asked by Sharon Cheung, a Hong Kong journalist, in October 2001 whether Beijing has appointed Tung as the next Chief Executive, which Jiang replied by condemning Cheung "too simple, sometimes naïve". Tung started his campaign in 2001 by setting up an office in the Central District and constructing a website to release news of his campaign. His campaign manager like Leung Chun-ying, the Convenor of the Unofficial Members of the Executive Council tried to project a more communicative and high-tech image of Tung.59 Patron-Client Politics and Elections in Hong Kong Bruce Kam-kwan Kwong Routledge 2009 Nomination The nomination period lasted for two weeks from 15 to 28 February 2002. On 19 February, only four days after the nomination period opened the Asian Wall Street Journal first reported Tung's de facto victory, as more than 695 Election Committee members had nominated him for a second term, which made it mathematically impossible for anyone else to nominated as the threshold of required for nomination was 100 members.The Promise of Democratization in Hong Kong: The 2002 Chief Executive Election and the Transition Five Years after Reversion National Democratic Institute 2002 https://www.ndi.org/files/1366_hk_rpt_031102_0.pdf At the end of the nomination period, Tung garnered 712 nominations from the Election Committee and thus was the only validly nominated candidate with the boycott of the pro-democracy camp. The pro-democracy camp argued that the electoral process was deliberately designed to obstruct any challenge to Tung. Although there were voices that pro-democrats might have made it possible to nominate an alternative candidate, legislator and The Frontier chairperson Emily Lau was against supporting an alternative candidate: "As it is not a fair, open and democratic election, we should not participate in it and give it any legitimacy." Lau formed the Coalition Against Second Term (CAST) to draw attention to the flawed process of choosing the Chief Executive, the lack of competition and the need for real democracy. Candidate Born Party Most recent position Campaign Nominationsreceived 150x150px Tung Chee-hwa董建華 1937 7 7 dmy(age 1937 7 7 2002 2 28) Nonpartisan(Pro-Beijing) Chief Executive of Hong Kong(1997–) Announced: 13 December 2001Nominated: 19 February 2002 714 800 1 Nonpartisan politician Result While the election date was originally set on 24 March 2002, Tung was declared re-elected on 28 February 2002,Returning Officer declares Tung Chee Hwa elected in Chief Executive election https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/200202/28/0228203.htm 2022-04-13 www.info.gov.hk and thus the election was concluded.2002 Chief Executive election concludes smoothly https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/200202/28/0228208.htm 2022-04-13 www.info.gov.hk Tung was also considered as the only Chief Executive hand-picked in high-profile by the Chinese Government,龍吟虎嘯：三位特首只一人獲欽點 - 東方日報 https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20170211/00184_002.html 2022-04-13 orientaldaily.on.cc until the 2022 election. 2002 Hong Kong Chief Executive election Tung Chee-hwa Nonpartisan politician Uncontested 800 Aftermath Second term of Tung Chee-hwa as Chief Executive of Hong Kong In his second term, Tung Chee-hwa increasingly faced difficult challenge of governing without a democratic mandate. With the SARS epidemics and the controversies over the Hong Kong Basic Law Article 23 in 2003 drew a massive anti-government protest on 1 July 2003. As Jiang Zemin retired from as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (de facto leader), Tung gradually lost his main patron in Beijing and eventually stepped down in 2005.Politics in China: An Introduction, Second Edition William A. Joseph Oxford University Press 2014 References 2002 Category:2002 elections in China Category:2002 in Hong Kong Category:Uncontested elections in Hong Kong Category:March 2002 in China