Chapter 379: I'm Easy, I'm Easy
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On January 21, not long after Westerners had celebrated Christmas and New Year, Election Day arrived in the Greater Naples area.
In fact, the residents of Naples have long been familiar with this election day, but this year's election is a little different from previous years.
In the previous elections, most of them were actually a formality, although there were also a few candidates, but the final winner was the big-bellied, bald-headed, and traditional mustache Alfonso who everyone is very familiar with.
For the old mayor, the residents of the Greater Napoli area are already quite familiar, and even some are tired of him.
This guy is quite good at talking, he will advertise himself on TV and various news media before the start of every election, and every time he makes a campaign speech, this guy will always talk about the sky.
He can say anything to protect the interests of the public, and as long as he can help him win public support, he dares to promise anything.
But once elected, this guy will change his face, and he will always find all kinds of excuses to shirk and mess up with all kinds of promises before.
So many residents of the Naples area have long since stopped buying those clichés of this guy.
But what if you don't like him? Several other candidates are even worse than him, so at every election, some people laugh that this is not an election to elect outstanding leaders. It's about picking out a passable election in a pile of rotten tomatoes.
But this year's election is different from previous years. Because this time suddenly a strong contender got involved. And this person is the younger generation of the Contra family, compared to the middle-aged, pot-bellied Alfonso.
This little Contra is at least much more ingenious in terms of image, although he is also in his thirties, but he is dignified and graceful, at least his body has not yet been blessed.
This left many female voters, before the election even began. He was already on his side.
And as a candidate, he has qualities that several other candidates do not have, that is, youth, and an enterprising attitude.
This can be heard from several of his important campaign speeches, so this time many people are holding the mentality of watching the excitement to see if this election will produce a replacement of the old and the new.
However, who will win does not affect Pesaro's mood, which has been heavy since he arrived at the polling station this morning.
The words of those two young men yesterday. He couldn't close his eyes all night, and his heart fought almost all night. Whether or not to do what they said was a struggle for him.
As a government worker, Pesaro can be said to be a man of great integrity, which is the main reason why he is elected as a voter count supervisor in every general election.
According to common sense, it was impossible for him to agree to the conditions of those guys, but if he didn't, he still felt a faint pain in his stomach when he remembered the punch they had given when they left yesterday.
Think about his wife, his daughter and granddaughter in Milan, and the five thousand euros that they stuffed into their pockets yesterday when they left......
Pesaro gritted his teeth, took advantage of the fact that others were not paying attention, quietly pulled out a blank ballot from the pile of ballots that had not yet been distributed, and then went straight to the bathroom on the second floor, after checking that there was no one in the bathroom, he opened the window of the bathroom and threw out the blank ballot, and downstairs, it was the two guys who visited his house yesterday.
They picked up the blank ballot and looked at it, then smiled and waved at Pesaro, got on the motorcycle, twisted the accelerator, and disappeared......
Soon the two appeared at the gate of the polling station, and at this time, at the gate of the polling station, there was already a long queue, and it seemed that the people of the Naples region were very enthusiastic about participating in the election this year.
Citizens over the age of 18 can vote, and the rules of voting are that every voter who participates in the polls must bring their valid ID and come to the polling station to wait for the door to open, and then they can go in and vote.
Voting is carried out individually, that is, only one person is allowed to enter at a time, and only after the vote is completed, the next person can enter, and the voting method is taken by secret ballot.
The two men came to the front of the line, and they took out their ballot papers, and the little blue piece of paper had the names of several people on them, and behind the names was a small square, and if you wanted to vote for that person, you put a check mark on the square behind that person's name.
The two took out their carbon pens, put a mark behind Contra's name, and handed the ticket to the first person at the front of the line.
Soon it was nine o'clock, the polling station opened its doors, and the voter standing first walked into the polling station, first through the security check, and then to the front of the voting table, where someone checked his passport, and after checking the number, handed him a blue ballot paper and pointed to the voting compartment at the back.
The man came to the cubicle with the ballot paper, closed the curtain of the compartment, but did not pick up the carbon pen on the face, but took it out directly from his pocket, and the two people at the door gave him the ballot paper that had already been marked and marked, and then put the ballot paper from the staff into his pocket, and walked out of the cubicle.
Then he put the ballot paper in the ballot box, and when he came out of the polling station, he handed the blank ballot paper to the two guys who were waiting at the door, and then took fifty euros from the two guys......
And then the two guys did the same thing on the blank ballot, handing the ballot to the next 'salaried' voter, and so on and so forth, until all the people they had found had voted.
And this scene is repeated in front of almost every polling station in Naples......
In the entire Greater Napoli area, there are 30 administrative districts, with a total population of only about 1 million, and in this election, the city government has set up a total of 100 polling stations in these 30 districts.
In fact, it would be nice to have 400,000 people who could come to vote, so it was only a day's work for the voting to end.
Then the counting of votes, after the end of the evening voting, began quickly, and by ten o'clock in the evening, the results of the vote count had already come out.
When Alfonso thought that he must be sure of victory, but he saw on TV that in the end, the vote rate of Contra Jr. was as high as 73 percent, nearly 40 percent higher than himself, and he fell from the executive chair to the ground.
"How is this possible? Those bastards are cheating, they're cheating......"
All the staff outside the door of the mayor's office heard the roar coming from the mayor's office, as well as the sound of falling things.
But everyone's reaction, that is, shrugged their shoulders, who would care about this outdated mayor at this time? After all, starting tomorrow, that office will no longer belong to him.
At this time, Alfonso had calmed down, he sat in his chair, thought about it, and finally came to a conclusion that it must be the ghost of DiMaggio.
It seems that I still underestimated this former dog leg of the Savatano family!
These guys, they really can't be messed with......
He smiled wryly and took out a cigar from the table, then touched the heavy mahogany executive table, which would not be his own from tomorrow onwards......
At this time, in the night of the Gemora camp, the new mayor was toasting with Di Maggio and a Chinese distinguished guest.
"Congratulations, Mr. Mayor!"
"Haha, you're so polite, Mr. Jin, by the way, what you told me before, about the investment in China......"
"Don't worry, as long as you communicate well with the Roman side, the investors over there will be in place soon. If you come up with your intentions, they will come and negotiate with you in a few days. And we, as long as we are ready, sit on the ground and count the money. ”
"Well, that's good, that's good, uh...... But ......"
"But what? Mr. Mayor, do you have any problems? ”
"Mr. Jin, as you know, I have promised my supporters in the party that when the time comes, the construction of this port will definitely have their share. But if Naples wants to get a stake in this project, it is definitely not enough to rely on local land as a shareholder, and it has to increase investment, and the shares obtained by Rome's funds will only be given to those big conglomerates in the north. But if we want to invest in the local area...... It's a big problem, and you know that Napoli's deficit isn't a day or two......"
"Haha, you don't have to worry about this problem, I will help you introduce some friends at that time, they will be very willing to help the local government with this fund, but when the time comes, I am afraid that the government will have to give up some of the shares of the port......"
Jin Muchen said with a smile, he had expected these for a long time, and Contra nodded frequently, this young man is really good enough, making such a friend can really save him a lot of trouble.
In this spoils sharing meeting, almost everyone in the meeting was happy, and everyone got what they wanted.
And Jin Muchen breathed a sigh of relief, now the things in Lao Tzu's hands can finally be shot, am I so easy?
In fact, I just wanted to sell some antiques, but in the end, I went around in such a big circle, tried my best to settle the black and white lines of Naples, and finally promoted such a big international cooperation investment project, am I easy? (To be continued......)