Sentence examples for executive election from inspiring English sources

He says the nominating committee for the 2017 chief executive election should be popularly elected.

Early this year, he commissioned a series of polls to gauge his chances of success in a county executive election.

The Beijing authorities have said that they "may" allow every adult to vote in the next chief executive election, in 2017.

The Beijing authorities have said that they "may" allow universal suffrage — one person, one vote — in the 2017 chief executive election.

People are really soft and submissive and they don't even give them a choice of two candidates in the chief executive election.

For months, they had been pushing to change the proposed electoral system that would allow Beijing to vet candidates for the 2017 Chief Executive election.

Mrs. Chan championed a liberal model for reform that would allow an open field for chief executive elections and a fully elected legislature by 2012.

China announced in April last year that universal suffrage would not be allowed for the next chief executive elections (due in 2007) and the next Legislative Council polls in 2008.

But they cling to a micro margin, 10 seats to 9. Both sides are already jockeying for advantage in next year's legislative and county executive elections.

The protesters demand a genuine choice among candidates for the city's 2017 chief executive elections, while Chinese authorities have mandated an electoral framework in which all candidates are screened by a committee of pro-Beijing elites.

Democrats and pro-Beijing conservatives are deeply divided over several issues, including how soon democratic reforms should be introduced and the rules for screening candidates for chief executive elections, which is a stipulation of the Basic Law.