TNAG-2290-FCO40-3296-Relations-between-Hong-Kong-and-Macau-1991 — Page 254

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elected by the elected. It has

(1) A top legal body, with 2/3 of the judges parliament, and the other third choosen by those the responsability of enforce laws, ordinances, administrative decisions, judicial decisions, and so on, in order to guarantee they respect the Portuguese Constitution.

that

"Under-:

post

(2) Macau's, government has a Governor, appointed by the portuguese president. The governor, actualy,can have up to seven Secretaries",in whom he delegates specific powers. This corresponds to the post of "Secretary", in Hong Kong government.One diference is that there is no post corresponding to "Chief-Secretary", in the local government structure. When Governor leaves the territory, for example, he previously appoints one of the "Under-Secretaries" as acting Governor.

the

the

Macau's Governor is accountable only to the President.This is the only executive responsability of

the portuguese President.Other presidential powers are more or less honnoryfic powers. The

portuguese political system is usualy classified as more parliamentary than presidential, because all of executive powers relay on the government, wich depends from the majority force in the Parliament.This situation has been critisied, due to, for example, all matters concerning Foreign Affairs are government responsability which means that is the: portuguese Government (of Lisbon) who appoints and directs

ts the works of the Joint Liaison Group.

current

(3) The amount of money included in this plan is only investment on specific projects and dos not include expenses.The global amount of "Public Expenses" refers to both "Investment Plan" and "Current Expenses"

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