Chapter XVII This chapter is untitled
On August 28, Gu Mu and his party embarked on a journey to Africa.
After two transfers, when they arrived in country A, Santos had already welcomed them at the airport with his team, followed by media reporters, and filmed them together.
Now that the election has reached the white-hot stage, the chairman of Jinshan Investment Company has personally come over to give Santos, the presidential candidate, a platform, of course, it is necessary to let the people of this country know as soon as possible.
Before he walked out of the airport, Gu Mu felt a very strong atmosphere of election, and the propaganda slogans of the electors of the major forces could be seen everywhere.
Large-scale portraits of Santos can also be seen everywhere, with a long presence.
This is a very rare landscape for him, and he has a strong interest.
"It's all burning money," Santos said to Gu Mu while sitting in the car, "Although we are a very poor country, we still have to burn a lot of money in elections, and the money burned can train at least 10,000 talents to receive higher education, but it is really a waste to burn it in vain." ”
He felt sorry for such a situation, but he couldn't avoid it himself.
He also wants to be involved in burning money.
In fact, among all the candidates, he burned money relatively quickly, not the first place, but at least in the top three.
The first place, of course, is the current president, who has enough resources to advertise his re-election.
It's just that the incumbent president's achievements in this term are really poor, and none of the promises made during the original election campaign have been fulfilled.
In such a situation, even if you have the best publicity and promotion channels, it is difficult to get the continued support of the people.
Now that he is outside the top three in the polls, he is basically out.
Of course, Santos personally does not have that much money to spend on the election, and their team has received a lot of donations for the election, and the biggest source is the several companies that Wang Yongyuan has invested in here.
Of course, donating not in the name of a company is a very bad act that would be true.
The donations were made by the employees of those companies, all of which were voluntary.
At least when interviewed by the media, these employees made voluntary donations.
Country A is relatively poor, and there are not many rich people, so it is relatively easy for a consortium like Wang Yongyuan to support a politician.
This is not a big country, nor is it a regionally important country, just a very inconspicuous small country, a poor country, and there will not be so many big international forces and big conglomerates who fancy this place, which also makes Wang Yongyuan not encounter too strong competitors.
If it is a country where the place is very important, even if it is a small country, Wang Yongyuan does not have the capital to participate in such a game.
It will be easily shot to death by the other party in a few clicks.
Santos and Gu Mu were in a car, and Zhao Jiajia was also sitting next to Gu Mu.
When he was in the car, Santos introduced the election to Gu Mu.
Voting will begin on September 8, and Santos is now in the lead in polls by major institutions.
The counting of votes will begin on the same day, and the results will be announced immediately.
The entire voting campaign will be monitored by a number of international bodies to ensure the fairness of the election.
However, it will not be until the 11th that the legitimacy of this election will be confirmed by law, and the final vote count will be announced through official channels.
Generally speaking, the winner can be confirmed on the day of the vote.
A total of eight people participated in this presidential race.
According to the system of country A, a candidate must obtain the support of a majority of votes in order to be elected president.
If the first ballot does not result in a majority of votes, a second round of voting will be held, and the second round will be held among the top three with the highest number of votes.
If there is no candidate with a majority vote in the second round of voting, a third round of voting will be held between the top two.
Now Santos' poll has reached 41%, far ahead of the rest of the contestants, but not half yet.
This also makes his confidence not so sufficient.
Because the other candidates have similar campaign slogans, although each of them does not have the same poll support as his, the overlap rate between them is high, and if the second or even third round of voting is held, those scattered votes may gather together and form a counter-attack on him.
"I seem to be making enemies of all the candidates," Santos said with a wry smile, "Now my competitors are all targeting me, and what they do every day is to take a magnifying glass to find the shortcomings of me and my team, and then attack, when there are shortcomings, they look for shortcomings, and when there are no shortcomings, they will create shortcomings." ”
"There's no way," Gu Mu said with a smile, "If you want to blame, you can only be blamed for being too good, the wood is beautiful in the forest, and the wind will destroy it, this is our old saying in China." However, as long as you can get through this hurdle, it's a smooth road. ”
"It's hard," Santos sighed, "and as the day of the vote draws closer, I get more and more scared, wondering what my competitors are going to do with it." Now that I'm their public enemy, the first thing I do when I wake up is watch the news. Watch the news on TV, watch the news in the newspapers, watch the news on social media, and see if they will blame me. ”
"Don't be afraid, we'll all have your back. Gu Mu said.
"Thank you very much for your support," Santos said seriously, "without your support, I wouldn't have any advantage against so many competitors." ”
What he said was true.
His campaign slogan, in the eyes of a normal Chinese person, is indeed the most pragmatic, to develop the economy at all costs.
If we can really govern according to such a policy, of course, we can improve the country's economic strength and slowly solve the problem of food and clothing for the common people.
However, pragmatic slogans often mean unappealing.
His rivals shouted louder slogans than one another, as if they could turn the country into a developed country in one term if they were elected.
Compared to Santos's slogan, it seems much taller.
Even if many people know that there is no way to fulfill their campaign promises.
However, even if it is a dream, choose a dream that looks better.
Why not vote for someone with louder slogans?
And it was precisely because of the $5 billion investment pledge from Goldsoft that Santos made those people realize that this man's slogan might really be realized, which made his polls go higher.
From this point of view, Santos should indeed be grateful to Kingsoft Investment Company.