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Hong Kong is a city and a special administrative region in China.
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- These parties have aligned themselves into three ideological groups: the pro-Beijing camp (the current government), the pro-democracy camp, and localist groups.
- Twenty-two political parties had representatives elected to the Legislative Council in the 2016 election.
- The 30 limited electorate functional constituencies fill their seats using first-past-the-post or instant-runoff voting.
- All popularly elected members are chosen by proportional representation.
- Thirty FC councillors are selected from limited electorates representing sectors of the economy or special interest groups,and the remaining five members are nominated from sitting district council members and selected in region-wide double direct elections.
- Twenty are directly elected from geographical constituencies, thirty-five represent functional constituencies (FC), and forty are chosen by an election committee consisting of representatives appointed by the Chinese central government.
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- The Legislative Council has 90 members, each serving a four-year term.
- The chief executive is the head of government and serves for a maximum of two five-year terms. The State Council (led by the Premier of China) appoints the chief executive after nomination by the Election Committee, which is composed of 1500 business, community, and government leaders.
- Under these terms and the "one country, two systems" principle, the Basic Law of Hong Kong is the regional constitution.
- The Sino-British Joint Declaration provided for economic and administrative continuity through the transfer of sovereignty, resulting in an executive-led governing system largely inherited from the territory's history as a British colony.
- Hong Kong is a special administrative region of China, with executive, legislative, and judicial powers devolved from the national government.
- Main articles: Government of Hong Kong, Politics of Hong Kong, Elections in Hong Kong, and Separation of powers in Hong Kong
- and a District Council Eligibility Review Committee was similarly established to vet candidates.
- In May 2023, the Legislative Council introduced legislation to reduce the number of directly elected seats in the district councils as well,
- which included the reduction of directly elected seats in the Legislative Council and the requirement that all candidates be vetted and approved by a Beijing-appointed Candidate Eligibility Review Committee.
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- Nine months later, in March 2021, the Chinese central government introduced amendments to Hong Kong's electoral system,
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- The Chinese central government meanwhile enacted the Hong Kong national security law to help quell protests in the region.
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- The Hong Kong regional government and Chinese central government responded to the protests with a number of administrative measures to quell dissent.
- The protests are the largest in Hong Kong's history, with organisers claiming to have attracted more than three million Hong Kong residents.
- In June 2019, mass protests erupted in response to a proposed extradition amendment bill permitting the extradition of fugitives to mainland China.
- and enforcement of national law in the West Kowloon high-speed railway station raised further concerns about the region's autonomy.
- Discrepancies in the electoral registry and disqualification of elected legislators after the 2016 Legislative Council elections,
- The central government decision to implement nominee pre-screening before allowing chief executive elections triggered a series of protests in 2014 which became known as the Umbrella Revolution.
- the regional government unsuccessfully attempted to enact national security legislation pursuant to Article 23 of the Basic Law.
- After reversal of the last colonial era Legislative Council democratic reforms following the handover,
- Political debates after the transfer of sovereignty have centred around the region's democratic development and the Chinese central government's adherence to the "one country, two systems" principle.
- This was followed by the 2003 SARS epidemic, during which the territory experienced its most serious economic downturn.
- and the recovery from this was muted by an H5N1 avian-flu outbreak and a housing surplus.
- The Hong Kong government was forced to use substantial foreign exchange reserves to maintain the Hong Kong dollar's currency peg during the 1997 Asian financial crisis,
- Immediately after the transfer, Hong Kong was severely affected by several crises.
- Hong Kong was transferred to China on 1 July 1997, after 156 years of British rule.
- The Legislative Council became a fully elected legislature for the first time in 1995 and extensively expanded its functions and organisations throughout the last years of the colonial rule.
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- Over half a million people left the territory during the peak migration period, from 1987 to 1996.
- The impending transfer triggered a wave of mass emigration as residents feared an erosion of civil rights, the rule of law, and quality of life.
- in which the United Kingdom agreed to transfer the colony in 1997 and China would guarantee Hong Kong's economic and political systems for 50 years after the transfer.
- Diplomatic negotiations with China resulted in the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration,
- and Governor Murray MacLehose raised the question of Hong Kong's status with Deng Xiaoping in 1979.