Pro-Beijing camp (Macau)

Pro-Beijing camp
Chinese name親北京陣營
Portuguese nameCampo Pró-Pequim
FoundedEarly 1990s
IdeologyConservatism
Chinese nationalism
Factions:
Socialism
Economic liberalism
ColoursRed and green
(customary)
Legislative Assembly of Macau
30 / 33
Election Committee
390 / 400
NPC (Macau deputies)
12 / 12
Pro-Beijing camp
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese親北京陣營
Simplified Chinese亲北京阵营
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinQīn Běijīng Zhènyíng
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationChān bāk gīng jahn yìhng
JyutpingCan1 bak1 ging1 zan6 jing4
Portuguese name
PortugueseCampo Pró-Pequim

The pro-Beijing camp, pro-establishment camp or pro-China camp (Chinese: 建制派 or 親中派; Portuguese: campo pró-Pequim, campo pró-estabelecimento or campo pró-China) is a political alignment in Macau which supports the policies and views of the Chinese government and the Chinese Communist Party before and after the handover of Macau on 20 December 1999. The term can be used to identify politicians, political parties and individuals. Their rivals are the pro-democracy camp.

History

Prior to handover

Some of the political groups within the pro-establishment camp, such as the Union for Development and Progress Promotion Union have had a long history of following the directions of the People's Republic of China and of loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party since the colonial period.[citation needed]

Policies

Pro-establishment members are united by the political ideology or economic policies of being closer to Beijing, as much out of pragmatism as of conviction, but vary on other issues within the context of Macau.[citation needed]

Members of the camp

Civil organisations, individual social activists, political parties, political groups and lawmakers who share a similar belief in democracy are all considered members of this camp. (number of Legislative Deputies shown in brackets)

The following entities are routinely referred to as members of the Pro-establishment camp:

Electoral performance

Legislative Council elections

Election Number of
popular votes
% of
popular votes
Total seats +/− Status
2001 52,617Steady 62.99Steady
9 / 12
Majority
2005 88,949Increase 71.26Increase
9 / 12
Steady Majority
2009 93,810Increase 66.16Decrease
8 / 12
Decrease1 Majority
2013 92,251Decrease 62.99Decrease
10 / 14
Increase2 Majority
2017 99,366Increase 57.56Decrease
9 / 13
Decrease1 Majority
2021 105,256Increase 79.71Increase
11 / 13
Increase2 Majority

See also

References

  1. ^ 楊鳴宇; 林仲軒; 吳明軒; 廖志輝; 李展鵬; 呂開顏; 王紅宇; 馬天龍 (16 March 2022). 澳門政經二十年. 五南圖書出版股份有限公司. ISBN 978-626-317-669-0. 在所有傳統社團中,五個有影響力的親共左派社團尤為重要。他們是澳門中華總商會、澳門工會聯合總會(工聯)、澳門中華教育會、澳門街坊總會和澳門婦女聯合總會。從勞工、教育到社區,這些社團可說是涵蓋了澳門最重要的社會部門(Chou,2015)。