Macao’s former top judge Sam Hou-fai was confirmed by the city’s election authority on Friday as the only candidate for Chief Executive Election scheduled for Oct 13.

Following an eligibility review of Sam’s application for the CE race, the SAR’s Electoral Affairs Commission on Wednesday announced its decision to accept him as the candidate. It did not receive any objections against the decision.

The review was concluded after the Committee for Safeguarding National Security of the Macao Special Administrative Region assessed and affirmed Sam’s sincere support for the Macao SAR Basic Law and his loyalty to the People’s Republic of China and its Macao SAR.

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The Electoral Affairs Commission published a notice featuring Sam as the only accepted candidate for the Chief Executive election on Wednesday, as well as the names of 386 members of the Chief Executive Election Committee who nominated him.

In accordance with the Macao SAR’s Chief Executive Election Law, as no objections were received by the Commission within one day of the notice, it published the finalized list on Friday.

Born in Guangdong province in 1962, Sam moved to Macao in the 1980s and joined the city’s first group of judicial auditors in 1995. He was appointed president of Macao’s Court of Final Appeal on Dec 20, 1999, and held the post for nearly 25 years until Aug 28 this year.

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Sam is expected to introduce his election platform to 400 members of the Election Committee and take their questions when the campaign period starts on Sept28.