Chinese casino hub Macao's elite choose new leader | Inquirer News

Chinese casino hub Macao’s elite choose new leader

/ 02:08 PM August 25, 2019

A visitor (L) watches a card dealer demonstrating a game at the Global Gaming Expo in Macau on May 21, 2019. (Photo by Isaac LAWRENCE / AFP)

A visitor (L) watches a card dealer demonstrating a game at the Global Gaming Expo in Macau on May 21, 2019. (Photo by Isaac LAWRENCE / AFP)

MACAO — An elite pro-Beijing panel has chosen a new leader for the Chinese casino gambling hub Macao.

Ho Iat-seng was picked Sunday to be the next chief executive of the former Portuguese colony in a selection process with no other candidates.

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Ho, a pro-establishment businessman and politician, will become the city’s fifth leader since China took control of Macau in 1999 after more than four centuries of Portuguese rule.

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He will replace the city’s current leader, Chui Sai-on, whose term expires in December.

Macao, an hour by high-speed ferry from Hong Kong, is the world’s biggest casino gambling market, raking in revenues dwarfing the Las Vegas Strip and fueled by high rolling mainland Chinese gamblers.

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Officials say the 62-year-old Ho garnered 392 votes from Macau’s 400-member “election committee.”

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