Election text messages cost city mayor his job
By Claire Wang |
April 12, 2011, Tuesday
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THE former mayor of Taiyuan City, capital of north China's Shanxi Province, has been removed from his post and given a "serious" Party warning for election violations, according to the Xinhua news agency.
Zhang Bingsheng, 56, who also lost his position as vice secretary of Taiyuan's Municipal Party Committee, was said to have sent text messages to deputies at the fifth session of 11th People's Congress of Shanxi Province in January.
Zhang was said to have felt dissatisfied about not being listed as a candidate for vice governor and asked the then-deputy secretary general of the Taiyuan municipal government, surnamed Cui, to send anonymous text messages to dozens of congress deputies in a bid to disrupt the election.
Cui has also been punished for his part in the affair.
The text message said competition for the vice governor of Shanxi Province was fierce and asked the deputies to cast their votes after careful and serious consideration, an anonymous official earlier told Oriental Outlook Magazine magazine.
The Commission for Discipline Inspection and the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee issued a joint notice on elections at the end of last year which included a ban on text messages.
In a separate case, an official surnamed Yan in Youyang township in Xupu County of central China's Hunan Province, was expelled from the Party and election results nullified.
Though Yan was not initially listed as a candidate, he was elected as a vice township head on last year after offering a total of 1,000 yuan (US$153) to five township legislature deputies.
Zhang Bingsheng, 56, who also lost his position as vice secretary of Taiyuan's Municipal Party Committee, was said to have sent text messages to deputies at the fifth session of 11th People's Congress of Shanxi Province in January.
Zhang was said to have felt dissatisfied about not being listed as a candidate for vice governor and asked the then-deputy secretary general of the Taiyuan municipal government, surnamed Cui, to send anonymous text messages to dozens of congress deputies in a bid to disrupt the election.
Cui has also been punished for his part in the affair.
The text message said competition for the vice governor of Shanxi Province was fierce and asked the deputies to cast their votes after careful and serious consideration, an anonymous official earlier told Oriental Outlook Magazine magazine.
The Commission for Discipline Inspection and the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee issued a joint notice on elections at the end of last year which included a ban on text messages.
In a separate case, an official surnamed Yan in Youyang township in Xupu County of central China's Hunan Province, was expelled from the Party and election results nullified.
Though Yan was not initially listed as a candidate, he was elected as a vice township head on last year after offering a total of 1,000 yuan (US$153) to five township legislature deputies.
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