BEIJING - Villagers in China whose rebellion against local officials last year grabbed the headlines kicked off a key process on Wednesday that will see them hold their first-ever open, democratic elections.TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。0 L! u3 T3 Z! o" b6 \$ S
! t4 |# Q; W3 D+ x; V/ `5.39.217.76Residents in Wukan in the wealthy southern province of Guangdong won rare concessions after they faced off with authorities for more than a week in December in a row over land and graft, including pledges to hold free village polls.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb* t, `- [+ ]3 m7 u6 H! B
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China - a one-party state where top leaders are not elected by the people - nevertheless allows villagers across the country to vote for a committee to represent them.
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But Wukan residents said their leaders had never before allowed these polls to go ahead in an open fashion, and instead selected members of the village committee behind closed doors.% D) m% M3 _7 c' J ?8 T& p, ]
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But on Wednesday they were due to openly select an independent election committee that would supervise their first democratic village poll due next month.
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"The election committee is being elected to supervise next month's village election," a villager surnamed Chen told AFP by phone.
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0 {& j! ?# E" O! o9 a3 X"Wukan has never held village elections, this will be the first ever democratic election in Wukan."( t- q% E0 D6 _5 `3 h# c0 N
" L, S6 W2 a. W7 ^Zhang Jianxing, a villager close to the local government, added Wednesday's vote was "part of the process to hold open, transparent and fair elections."
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2 C" l- ?, |: F( _5.39.217.76The election committee will be made up of 11 villagers who will not be allowed to run for next month's election, according to the official Xinhua news agency.
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i0 g( _; `$ \1 U) G( A+ [" N8 u4 n公仔箱論壇The concessions won by Wukan residents are seen as a rare victory for protesters in authoritarian China.
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5 n: q( Y' s% r$ i* O* w1 cThey had protested for months in autumn last year against their allegedly corrupt leaders, whom they accused of abusing their power to profit from land in the village. @$ n$ j) T2 D) |
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But it was not until detained community leader Xue Jinbo died in police custody in December after allegedly being beaten that their anger boiled over, prompting a tense, drawn-out stand-off with police and officials." H( J, H9 e7 m, s# m, r
i# G, H, e* s# \" a5 T, ] A* stvb now,tvbnow,bttvbThe Guangdong provincial government eventually capitulated as their case made headlines, and decided to intervene on behalf of the villagers.6 ~" E r0 A2 g/ W5 e- j
% I7 ^; c$ q0 a- k/ g公仔箱論壇Following investigations into corruption, the government conceded that villagers' grievances were reasonable and that closed elections for village leaders last year were invalid. |
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