Chapter 449 449 National Elections

The reconstruction of Iraq's southern SAR is progressing significantly faster than the Sunni and Kurdish areas in the north, thanks to the quick pace and efficiency of the Chinese. It is clear that at a time when the West is still struggling with what it should take from this cake, the Chinese have enthusiastically begun to carry out all kinds of useful experiments and construction in the southern special zone of Iraq.

Obviously, some infrastructure projects have a long construction period, slow results, and large investment, which are not suitable for good investment, and Chinese companies will also sign a cycle contract with the Southern Special Economic Zone, and at the end of a certain custody period, these infrastructures will be returned to the Southern Special Economic Zone government for management or privatization. However, this cycle basically ensures that Chinese companies have made a lot of profits here, and can retain a certain amount of equity and a voice.

Qi Yiming believes that the success of China's aid work is related to the resilience of the Chinese people to endure hardships and stand hard work, and more importantly, these difficult jobs are done by the Chinese, which will cultivate a good image of China in the eyes of local residents. Another Chinese merchant was known for his cunning, selling fakes, and dishonesty in some of the countries of the Third Century. However, because Qi Yiming has set up various laws and regulations in the economic field since the beginning of the economic take-off, there is nothing in the domestic cottage, after all, there is no restriction on the improvement of the cottage in the law, but the cost is not polite.

And those who go abroad to make a living will be more complicated in terms of censorship, and some who are found to have bad records and bad backgrounds should not go abroad to disgrace the Chinese.

In this way, although China participated in the military operation against Iraq, China also helped the Southern Special Zone to resist the biochemical crisis, and also provided great assistance to their post-disaster reconstruction, and the residents here also received a lot of humanitarian aid from China, so in the survey of local residents, the most hated country is the United States, and the most friendly country is China. This makes the Americans very helpless, obviously the Chinese are the little brother who follows them.

In addition to various economic and livelihood assistance, China has also provided some assistance to the Southern Special Economic Zone in terms of political system. Although the Chinese side will not blatantly transplant the CP system and red business in the southern special zone, it is inevitable that there will be a lot of red country atmosphere here.

The government is presided over by Iraqi Shiite ******, which, while very Islamic, is in fact quite secular and even communist. This party has regular congresses, emphasizes democratic centralism, and the party constitution is even a party constitution that deliberately comes up with the words "Marxist-Leninist" CP. At present, this ****** is basically a group of relatively obedient leading parties, and the centripetal force is not strong enough, but it will become a powerful local political force in time.

In order to avoid the birth of a dictatorial madman like Saddam, ****** also implemented a collective leadership system, and although there is a leader of its own party, the opinions of other standing committee members are also important. Of course, now they just need to listen to the greeting of the Emperor of China.

The United States has always used its own methods to criticize others, and even in the southern special regions controlled by China, the Americans have constantly called on China to let the locals hold a democratic election and truly elect a democratic government. In fact, the provisional government established in the United States did not hold any elections, which is really a joke of 50 steps.

Qi Yiming didn't have any worries, the Southern Special Economic Zone has a large amount of investment from various Chinese enterprises and a large number of Chinese troops, and no matter how the political parties here rotate, they will not dare to break ground on Tai Sui's head. Let's take a simple example, in another plane, Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama was unhappy with the United States after he came to power, but as soon as the United States was unhappy with him, Hatoyama immediately stepped down. In fact, such a model can also be applied to the heads of China and Iraq today.

The SAR government has promulgated a road map for democratization, which aims to formally start democratic elections in 1995 and establish a democratically elected regime. Those who are well-organized and have experience in governing will definitely have their own mass base and China's support by then****** so there should be no problem in ruling again.

The United States wants to take China's military, and China is not to be outdone. Although the current alliance between the two countries is talked about every day, due to the Soviet Union's cross-Taiwan, the United States looked around and found that the only one who was relatively big and could threaten itself was this guy who could be regarded as its ally. Although the two countries have not openly confronted each other, and China has comparatively abided by the various rules set by the United States, the two countries still have differences on some minor issues.

But the United States is now obsessed with the dominance of its own superpower after the collapse of the Soviet Union. This feeling of being able to command the whole world has allowed the Americans to dilute their unpleasantness on the Gulf battlefield and to be the rule-makers and arbiters of the world order.

The United States has asked for a popular election in the southern SAR, and China will return to a vote in Iraq. The Americans will not be happy again, because the population of the Chinese-controlled southern region is more than half of Iraq's total population, and unless the idea of using electricity to draw electoral districts is very likely, the party from the southern region will gain power. That Iraq would definitely be closer to China, while the United States would have lost thousands of people and hundreds of billions of dollars, which was almost a waste of money.

After listening to this proposal, the Americans could only say with a black face that they were very willing, but how to choose everyone to talk about is, to put it bluntly, to delay time.

In fact, at this time, it is not only Iraq that is facing the problem of popular elections, but also a relatively large-scale election is underway in China.

According to the newly revised CPC Party Program, the Party Constitution, and the Constitution of the People's Republic of China, and of course, Qi Yiming's self-confidence in the CPC's governance over the years and the wonderful use of the Spiritual Beacon Tower, the national people's congress election held at the end of 1991 was the first direct election of the highest authority in the country in the Celestial Empire.

The holding of universal suffrage in the National People's Congress does not mean, of course, that China has become constitutionalized. In fact, the Celestial Empire's system is still a red system that integrates parliament and action, and there is no multi-party system like the Soviet Union, and the direct election of the National People's Congress is just a means to realize the full effectiveness of the socialist representative system and fully enable the deputies to establish their own responsibilities and better serve the people.

Naturally, the kind of bastard deputies who do not take the masses seriously will not be able to survive under this new system, and the administrative organs will not be able to fully control the NPC, so it will naturally not be easy for some bullshit to happen. In the final analysis, the new system is not intended to question and shake the CPC's one-party dictatorship, but to better govern and achieve better supervision of power.

China's system has a strong ability to execute, relatively few constraints, suitable for doing big things, and can also maintain a relatively high speed of development, but there will certainly be slight deviations in the process, and once the power has no scruples, the consequences are also serious, strengthening the construction of the party's style of work and government style is of course a way, but supervision in place is a good means.

China's first "parliamentary universal suffrage" has also attracted wide attention from the world's circles, and some Western media have even come to China to conduct in-depth follow-up reports.

However, the vote, which was attended by 700 million voters, was also seen by many fair and impartial observers as a major step forward in the democratic process in the world. From big cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen to remote mountainous areas, large and simple polling stations have been set up, and voters have learned about the relevant background and situation of the candidates in their constituencies through television, radio, newspapers, and other media, as well as their political tendencies and remarks.

Of course, more than 90 percent of the candidates for the deputies are CPC, and although the democratic parties are also running, their strength is limited, and they know very well that they are in such a position as accompanying the prince to study, so it is impossible to set up candidates in every constituency in the country.

In fact, the election model is not universal suffrage for all seats, it is somewhat similar to the Hong Kong Legislative Council, where some functional constituencies are reserved for representatives of various industries, and even in order to avoid the embarrassing situation of only a few people elected by the democratic parties, there are some exclusive seats reserved for these democratic parties.

Many ordinary people are not enthusiastic about such things, and the right to vote is not as important as their firewood, rice, oil and salt, but this time there are special people who go door-to-door to ask "have you voted", and if you don't understand, they will also volunteer to explain the situation in the constituency for you, and many of this work is done by young volunteers recruited by the government.

I have to say that such a national election is very expensive, and many government officials feel that everything from propaganda to the establishment of polling stations costs a lot of money in the whole country. This is still an election in which ordinary candidates do not have campaign funds and personal publicity, and it may cost even more to conduct an election that requires all kinds of political contributions, as in the West. However, Qi Yiming thinks that some money really has to be spent, don't look at it as if it is a kind of work, but if it is done, it can block some people's mouths, and it also makes those who don't want to think about it naturally feel: China is no different from other countries, we are also very democratic, and Lao Tzu's votes have also elected deputies to the National People's Congress.

Further, after the election of the National People's Congress, the election of a new central government will be held, and the overwhelming majority of CPC delegates will naturally elect the candidates discussed and decided at the previous Party Congress. The No. 1 leader is already very old, because of the appearance of Qi Yiming, his political career did not come to an abrupt end, but until now, but it is time to come to an end. The new No. 1 chief and a new leadership team will formally take over the new government in 1992. The new team is naturally different from the other one, for example, No. 1 is not the one who was the mayor of Shencheng, but the one who performed well in the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.

History is actually different for a long time.