CHINA HONG KONG ELECTIONS

2021 Election Committee Subsector Ordinary Elections

epa09476409 Officials open a ballot box as vote counting starts at the Convention Centre, during the 2021 Election Committee Subsector Ordinary Elections in Hong Kong, China, 19 Sept. 2021. The Election Committee is an electoral college with the function of selecting the Chief Executive and to elect 40 members of the 90 members of the Legislative Council. In 2021 China?s National People's Congress passed a law that changed the electoral system in the former British colony, augmenting the size of the Election Committee to 1,500 members to include 'patriotic groups' and members of the Chinese People?s Political Consultative Conference among others. Only 364 places on the 1,500-member Election Committee are up for grabs with most seats predetermined as uncontested or appointed and only 4,889 voters representing different professions and trades casting their ballots. EPA/JEROME FAVRE

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