More than 50 delegates from the Jingnan area were arranged in the lower left corner of the hall, and Shu Jingkun and Wei Jiaqiang were seated next to each other, a little far away from the rostrum, and they couldn't see the faces of the presidium members clearly, only Geng Yimin, Zhang Quan, Xiang Yishan and others were all wearing navy blue suits. Shu Jingkun carefully debated the sitting posture of everyone on the rostrum, but it was very subtle, Geng Yimin and Zhang Quan were next to each other, but the bodies of the two were slightly sideways, there was nothing to do with Yishan today, he leaned on the back of the chair easily, and stretched out his legs in black shiny leather shoes, almost pushing out the curtain in front of the rostrum.

After the previous agenda is over, the next mayoral election should be exciting, but looking left and right, there are many people who can't help but raise their hands to cover their mouths and yawn, even Shu Jingkun can't help but yawn, but the representatives who belong to Zhang Quan's family can't relax, and their eyes sweep over the people on the left and right, intentionally or unintentionally.

Shu Jingkun can almost imagine the next procedure, since he became the principal of the city's No. 1 Middle School, he has been a representative for four consecutive terms, when the staff divided the ballots, Wei Jiaqiang raised the ballots in his hand, and said with a soft smile: "It's better to draw circles." ”

"The Jinghai City Electoral Congress... The Election Commission... The ballot ......" Shu Jingkun turned over and lightly read the "instructions for filling in the ballot" on the back: "There is one candidate for mayor of Jinghai City, one should be elected, and if the candidate votes in favor, draw a '○' in the space above the candidate's name, and if another person is elected, fill in the name of the other candidate in the 'name of the other candidate' column, and draw '○' in the space above his name." ”

Opening the ballot, Zhang Quan appeared in the candidate column without surprise.

Shu Jingkun does not believe that Wei Jiaqiang did not notice the difference in this election.

In the past, staff were assigned to each row of seats on both sides of the ballot papers, and the better thing was to provide services at any time, and at the same time, it was to monitor every process of filling out the ballot papers by the delegates. The election did not take that form, and it is not known whether it was negligence or some other reason. The most important point is that although the content of the ballot paper has not changed, the form has changed slightly, and the content is filled in the folded layer. This way, delegates don't have to worry about the staff standing next to the ballot box seeing what the ballot is filled out when they vote.

Shu Jingkun looked up at the rostrum, the dozen or so faces on it were very blurred, and he couldn't guess what mystery was hidden here, so he glanced sideways at Wei Jiaqiang, this guy took a pen and circled the ballot, and quickly closed it, and he couldn't guess whether he had drawn it or not. Thinking of this, Shu Jingkun noticed another detail, the representatives who usually get close to Zhang Quan are all gathered in one place in different regions, which undoubtedly narrows the scope of Zhang Quan's ear and eye surveillance, Shu Jingkun thought to himself: Is this an intentional arrangement? Others deliberately avoided suspicion, and most of them looked at the back of the person in front of them, not squinting, so as not to interfere with others filling out the ballot.

Shu Jingkun smelled a different smell, I believe many people smelled it, no matter what, Shu Jingkun pretended to draw a circle on the ballot for the first time according to his own wishes, and quickly closed the ballot and waited for the situation to change.

As a member of the presidium and the only candidate, when Zhang Quan followed Geng Yimin into the hall of the hall, Geng Yimin turned around and said to him: "The issue of the city commercial bank should not be delayed any longer, Mayor Zhang?" Zhang Quan was still waiting to explain, but he didn't expect Geng Yimin to turn his head and never look at him again.

Zhang Quan carefully pondered the meaning of Geng Yimin's words, and the more he pondered it, the deeper the taste, and the meaning of Geng Yimin's words undoubtedly accepted the overall situation of today's election, but he would continue to exert pressure on the city commercial bank. City Commercial Bank is currently deeply involved with Mr. Jinghai Jian, and Mr. Jinghai is almost his Zhang's ...... Zhang Quan pondered what excuse to find to delay the veto of the restructuring of the city commercial bank, and while he was distracted, he did not pay attention to the details of the election venue at first.

Chen Mingxing, as one of the representatives elected by the industrial and commercial circles, also sat on the seat a little far from the rostrum, with Gu Xiaoling and Qin Ming on the left, and Liu Huadong and Kong Limin on the right.

Kong Limin squinted at Chen Minghang, only feeling that he couldn't see through him, it stands to reason that he should be in a state of confusion when he sees such a situation, but he can't see the panic in his eyes.

More than 500 deputies threw the ballot papers they filled out into eight boxes under the rostrum, and Chen Mingxing no longer expected Zhang Quan to get more than half of the votes, although he had always said that the election should be changed to electronic voting, and the counting of more than 500 ballots went fairly smoothly; since the founding of the People's Republic of Jinghai City, the first mayoral candidate received less than half of the votes, with a total of 516 votes, of which Zhang Quan received only 167 votes, abstained from voting as high as 212 votes, and elected another person with a total of 137 votes.

During the whole process of counting the votes, Zhang Quan sat on the rostrum weakly, he did not expect the situation in front of him at all, and he did not expect Geng Yimin to give up the opportunity of the municipal party committee election and suddenly make a sudden attack in the political axe general election. The entire election process was firmly controlled by Geng Yimin.

Geng Yimin did not have the will to control the entire election process, and Geng Yimin believed that although Zhang Quan's descendants were numerous, they could not represent the entire Jinghai City. All he needs to do is to get rid of the unreasonable factors in the original election process (such as monitoring the election process of deputies) and give the deputies a chance to be elected in earnest, so that the whole election process will become more open. There is almost no need for additional arrangements, only a temporary decision is required before the election begins, and there is no need to secretly connect or do other actions.

When the Presidium announced the results of the ballot count, the auditorium was noisy and full of discussions. Wei Jiaqiang remembered what happened to Lin Quan in the morning, although he couldn't guess the details, one thing was certain, Zhang Quan was caught off guard. After discussion, the Bureau decided that a second election would be held in the afternoon, and in accordance with the provisions of the Election Law, candidates who were jointly sponsored by 10 deputies were eligible to participate in the afternoon election, and the delegates attending the meeting were required not to leave the electoral hall during their lunch time and rest time.

At noon, Jiang Zhiming accompanied Liu Yetian to the Jingnan District delegation to greet him, and Wei Jiaqiang and Shu Jingkun knew that Liu Yetian was the candidate who was pushed out to compete with Zhang Quan for the mayor's position. Seeing Jiang Zhiming accompany Liu Yetian to the area of the Tongnan City delegation, Wei Jiaqiang thought to himself: Zhang Quan's general trend has gone, and the second session election will be held in the afternoon, and the time left for him is too short, and he has no time to reverse the disadvantage.

Zhang Quan did not sit still, it is too late to draw votes in tandem at present, 212 abstentions, indicating that he has lost the hearts of the people in Jinghai, but he is not completely without a chance to fight back, Zhang Quan insisted: "The election law clearly stipulates that abstaining from voting is to give up the right to vote, and it is also to give up the right to participate in the election for the second time, and the representatives of the second election of the participants in the afternoon will exclude this part." ”

Whether or not voters or deputies who abstain from voting can continue to participate in the second election is a matter of ambiguity in domestic judicial practice, with some localities canceling the right of these deputies to vote for the second time, and some places retaining the right of these deputies to vote for the second time.

Excluding the deputies who abstained from voting, there were only 137 deputies who elected "another candidate", and there was no guarantee that all of these deputies would vote for Liu Yetian, and even if the deputies who voted in favor of Liu Yetian in an election would reconsider making a decision in favor of Liu Yetian, there would be no guarantee of victory.

Geng Yimin didn't speak, his eyes were fixed on Xiang Yishan, and he asked, "What did Deputy Secretary Xiang say?" ”

Xiang Yishan narrowed his eyes, he and Zhang Quan were inseparable from other arrangements, judging only by the situation in front of him, Geng Yimin dared to do this, he must have the support of the province. Since the province is determined to let Zhang Quan come down, Xiang Yishan can only keep Zhang Quan for a while, and Zhang Quan will always come down. But if the province really supports Geng Yimin, why didn't he show his clear intentions in the municipal party committee election?

Xiang Yishan couldn't figure it out, out of instinct, he didn't dare to offend the more powerful Geng Yimin, and said: "The truth in the country is like this, few people will vote against it with a clear banner, after all, it is an internal contradiction among the people." I think that those who abstain from voting are equivalent to voting against, and in the practice of drivers in many places, they do not think that abstaining from voting means giving up the right to vote, not to mention that when we formulated the agenda for this election, we did not include this clause...... "The current situation is so obvious, if you support Geng Yimin, Zhang Quan will lose, and if you support Zhang Quan, you may not be able to win Geng Yimin." What's more, what about winning Geng Yimin in this election, Geng Yimin always represents Jinghai City, as long as Geng Yimin is in office for one day, he will always be the day of Jinghai.

Xiang Yishan was no longer able to judge the changes in the situation, and did not dare to unite Zhang Quan and Geng Yimin to resist hard, but he was a little unwilling, and said: "This kind of situation is also the first time that Jinghai has happened since the founding of the People's Republic of China, do you want to ask the province for instructions?" ”

Geng Yimin smiled slightly, turned his head sideways and looked at Zhang Quan: "What does Mayor Zhang think?" ”

It is naturally good that the province can come forward to stop this farce, but in the face of the straw that Geng Yiming boiled and handed over, Zhang Quan hesitated again: Has the province already formed a resolution? Could it be that Deputy Director Wan was also kept in the dark. Indeed, in Zhang Quan's impression, he never thought that Geng Yimin would cut first and then play, and he didn't expect that Geng Yimin had not yet received a clear statement from Gu Xianxian at this time.

Seeing Zhang Quan's gray face, Geng Yimin hesitated, turned his head and said to Gao Song, Secretary General of the Presidium: "Secretary General Gao, you will report the situation in Jinghai to the province." ”

(To be continued)