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The First Hong Kong Chief Executive Election was held on 11 December 1996 to select the first Chief Executive for the post-colonial Hong Kong, a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. Since Hong Kong was then a British Dependent Territory, the election was held by the Chinese authorities in Hong Kong. ==History== By January 1996 most observers expected Tung Chee-hwa to be the front-runner of the election with a great deal of support from influential business tycoon Henry Fok.〔Horlemann, Ralf. () (2002). Hong Kong's Transition to Chinese Rule. Routledge publishing. ISBN 0-415-29681-1.〕 On December 11, 1996 a 400-member Selection Committee (推選委員會) was voting for a Chief Executive to rule Hong Kong after the 1997 handover.〔Chan, Ming K. () (1997). The Challenge of Hong Kong's Reintegration With China. Hong Kong University Press. Hong Kong (China). ISBN 962-209-441-4.〕 Pro-democracy activists including Emily Lau, Andrew Cheng, Lee Cheuk-yan scuffled with riot police outside the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. A "Tomb of democracy" was established outside the building shouting "oppose the phony election". The activists were detained and dragged away by the police for four hours.〔 The election was conducted by the electoral college of a massive 400-member committee with all the positions rubber-stamped by the Chinese Government. However, Hong Kong has never had a leader elected by universal suffrage before. All of Tung's British predecessors were all appointed by the British Crown, without recourse to any false pretense of democracy as in the present system. To contradict, leading Chinese politicians always claimed that the Chief Executive would not be chosen by Beijing and that he or she must be acceptable to the people of Hong Kong.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hong Kong Chief Executive election, 1996」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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