Congress nominations ‘smooth and orderly’
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THE nomination of candidates who will be considered to stand in the election of delegates to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is proceeding in a “smooth and orderly way,” the organization department of the Party’s Central Committee said yesterday.
At the congress, to be held in Beijing in the second half of the year, 2,300 delegates will be elected by 40 electoral units from across the country.
Candidates must exhibit the beliefs, political integrity and moral qualities expected of upstanding Party members, the department said.
The election, which will be completed by June, has five stages — nomination of candidates by Party members; nominee review; public notification of the candidates for feedback; candidate short list; and the final vote.
Liang Shaohua, a migrant worker from Xinyi in south China’s Guangdong Province, returned to his hometown to be involved in the local nomination process. “As a Party member, I need to be present for important occasions, like this, no matter how far away or busy I am,” Liang said. “I came to cast my vote and recommend the most suitable Party members from our organization.”
The 2,300 elected delegates will represent more than 88 million Party members and 4.4 million Party organizations.
This year, more workers, farmers and professionals will be nominated.
These “front-line workers” should account for no less than a third of the delegates representing provincial level regions, the central financial sector and Beijing-based centrally-administered enterprises, up 1.33, 13.3 and 1.33 percentage points respectively, compared to the previous congress.
Local election units have rolled out measures to increase the number of front-line delegates, taking into consideration different industries and regions.
Southwest China’s Yunnan Province has 25 ethnic minority groups that have a population of more than 6,000.
Li Jiansong, an official with Yunnan’s Party committee, said: “Half of the province’s 54 candidates identify as ethnic minorities, almost one from each of our 25 ethnic minority groups.”
Party committees at various levels have held meetings to recommend candidates and the initial nominee lists have been reviewed to solicit opinions.
“The election of nominees has been strict and prudent,” said Fang Jianhua, a Party member in a village in east China’s Jiangxi Province.
“The process starts from the lowest level and takes full consideration of the situation at the coal face. I believe the elected delegates will be worthy of our trust.”
The election features a strong emphasis on discipline and rules, with all electoral units pledging zero tolerance to fraud.
During the recommendation and nomination of delegates, Party organizations in northeast China’s Liaoning Province held 44,000 courses on election laws and the Party’s code of conduct, which were available to its nearly 1.2 million Party members.
Officials in the province had to learn a hard lesson from a huge election fraud case exposed last year, which saw 45 National People’s Congress deputies, the country’s top legislature, disqualified because of bribing voters in 2013. The province elected 40 new national lawmakers early this year.
Discipline and organizational departments in central China’s Hunan Province have also enhanced supervision to prevent fraud, after 56 provincial legislators in the city of Hengyang were found guilty of offering bribes to municipal lawmakers in 2013.
Tong Mingqian, a former senior official of the province, was sentenced to five years in prison for dereliction of duty.
The Party has vowed to punish any violations of laws and regulations including vote-buying and bribery.
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