非政权性市政机构的设立与展望

Abstract:The establishment of municipal organs without political power has become a focus within both the academic sector and the community in 2015. This article argues that the political power of former municipal organs originated from the conferral of municipalities as public corporations and the consequent devolution of public and political powers to municipalities. Although a political power is formed through political processes such as elections or nomination，differences in power conferral means that this is not the only consequence of political processes. How municipal organs are formed，regardless of methods，is therefore unrelated to the properties of “political power”. The future municipal organs of the Macao Special Administrative Region can be directly transited from the existing Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau，established as a separate public institution，or as a public association. While quorum should be introduced into the Chief Executive Election Law for representatives of municipal organs to the Chief Executive Electoral College after the municipal organs are established，attention should also be paid to problems such as delegation of power by the Government to municipal organs，the role of the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau，local ordinances （posturas），and rationalising the disorderly situation in territorial divisions within the Administration at present.

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