An elite pro-Beijing panel on Sunday chose a new leader for the Chinese casino gambling hub Macao.
Ho Iat-seng was picked to be the next chief executive of the former Portuguese colony in a selection process with no other candidates.
Ho, a pro-establishment businessman and politician, will become the city's third leader since China took control of Macao in 1999 after more than four centuries of Portuguese rule.
Ho will replace the city's current leader, Chui Sai-on, whose term expires in December.
Macao and nearby Hong Kong are former European colonies that were handed back to Beijing, becoming Chinese special administrative regions that retain considerable control over their own affairs under a formula known as "one country, two systems."
Officials said the 62-year-old Ho garnered 392 votes from Macao's 400-member "election committee."
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