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.
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: y7 G* f' {8 ^' p* L# X. o6 o- hTVBNOW 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。Residents 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,bttvb0 b5 E* ^9 J( T' ?
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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.( ]2 \5 l9 z4 M1 r. g
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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.
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' j; J% { i) ~5 k; lBut 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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1 h, T. S( ~* R& b& Y a3 V"The election committee is being elected to supervise next month's village election," a villager surnamed Chen told AFP by phone.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。* s, M/ x* Q1 d& ~
( v& H* v0 }; V' y; O; f# QTVBNOW 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。"Wukan has never held village elections, this will be the first ever democratic election in Wukan."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。. _# S7 k0 d' U
3 b( ~( _) Y/ L8 s( Stvb now,tvbnow,bttvbZhang 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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& z2 S F$ D: o: k Ctvb now,tvbnow,bttvbThe 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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The concessions won by Wukan residents are seen as a rare victory for protesters in authoritarian China.公仔箱論壇1 J4 b3 q1 Z8 ^# b6 C5 ?
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They 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.' X' j; z, t$ Q O7 U, ~# u
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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.公仔箱論壇, Z" U5 s( x3 H! y6 f
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The Guangdong provincial government eventually capitulated as their case made headlines, and decided to intervene on behalf of the villagers.
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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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