**The single candidate in a controlled committee vote for Macau’s new chief executive has won the job.**Former Social and Cultural Affairs Secretary Fernando Chui had earlier secured support from 286 of the 300-member nomination committee.
Coverage of his win focused on why only 282 people actually cast their vote for him, as small protests were held criticising the lack of democracy.
A few of those allowed to vote refused to do so for the same reason.
Mr Chui will succeed Edmund Ho in December as the second chief executive since Macau’s return to Chinese rule.
Macau, a former Portuguese colony, was made a special administrative region of under Chinese rule in 1999, as neighbour and former British colony Hong Kong was in 1997.
But Hong Kong secured stronger guarantees of autonomy and has a stronger democratic movement.
Mr Chui is a scion of one of Macau’s elite families, as his predecessor was, in a territory known for its tight links between government and business.