Sam Hou-fai, former president of Macao's Court of Final Appeal, said on Wednesday that he will run for the sixth-term chief executive of China's Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR).
Sam made the statement at a press conference and delivered his election declaration.
According to information on the Macao SAR government's website, born in Zhongshan of south China's Guangdong Province in May 1962, Sam joined Macao's first group of judicial auditors in 1995. On Dec. 20, 1999, he was appointed president of Macao's Court of Final Appeal.
Executive Order No. 44/2024, published on Monday in the official gazette of the SAR, wrote that at the request of Sam, he was relieved of his duties as president and judge of the Court of Final Appeal and member of the independent commission for recommending judges of the SAR.
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