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Who voted against Xi?

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    Who voted against Xi?

    "Election" results for China's new president, Xi Jinping.

    2,952 in favour; one opposed and three abstentions.

    Who voted against? Who has a one way ticket to Xinjiang?

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    maybe bo xilai opposed


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    Accidental vote...out of 3000 votes, one idiot is bound to misread the ballot or mismark it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by closedcasket:
    Accidental vote...out of 3000 votes, one idiot is bound to misread the ballot or mismark it.
    Accidental or not, we'll probably not see him around by the next NPC meeting, whoever he is. No such thing as "secret votes" in the PRC. We probably won't know, but I can bet you the CCP will know, one way or another. (For us, it will be just be another faceless NPC member being replaced by another faceless NPC member. But do we ever know why?)

    Because unless he is someone with high enough status (i.e. member of the standing committee), he will have to "voluntarily" step down due to "ill health" or "want to spend more time with his/her family" (wink wink). Chinese leaders don't take these things lightly, rubber-stamp or not, it's about face. It's ok to cast opposition votes against a lower-level government candidate, but the president? Hehehe...let's just say that is not a career-enhancing move.
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    Quote Originally Posted by drumbrake:
    "Election" results for China's new president, Xi Jinping.

    2,952 in favour; one opposed and three abstentions.

    Who voted against? Who has a one way ticket to Xinjiang?
    Nonsense. This just proves that there is democracy in China.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lootoo:
    Nonsense. This just proves that there is democracy in China.
    Nonsense, the guys & girls were just hungover and thus ticked the wrong box
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    Quote Originally Posted by garycyk:
    HE IS IN JAIL
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    MrMin just found me this story which is what this thread reminded him of:

    At the conclusion of the conference, a tribute to Comrade Stalin was called for. Of course, everyone stood up (just as everyone had leaped to his feet during the conference at every mention of his name). ... For three minutes, four minutes, five minutes, the stormy applause, rising to an ovation, continued. But palms were getting sore and raised arms were already aching. And the older people were panting from exhaustion. It was becoming insufferably silly even to those who really adored Stalin.

    However, who would dare to be the first to stop? … After all, NKVD men were standing in the hall applauding and watching to see who would quit first! And in the obscure, small hall, unknown to the leader, the applause went on – six, seven, eight minutes! They were done for! Their goose was cooked! They couldn’t stop now till they collapsed with heart attacks! At the rear of the hall, which was crowded, they could of course cheat a bit, clap less frequently, less vigorously, not so eagerly – but up there with the presidium where everyone could see them?

    The director of the local paper factory, an independent and strong-minded man, stood with the presidium. Aware of all the falsity and all the impossibility of the situation, he still kept on applauding! Nine minutes! Ten! In anguish he watched the secretary of the District Party Committee, but the latter dared not stop. Insanity! To the last man! With make-believe enthusiasm on their faces, looking at each other with faint hope, the district leaders were just going to go on and on applauding till they fell where they stood, till they were carried out of the hall on stretchers! And even then those who were left would not falter…

    Then, after eleven minutes, the director of the paper factory assumed a businesslike expression and sat down in his seat. And, oh, a miracle took place! Where had the universal, uninhibited, indescribable enthusiasm gone? To a man, everyone else stopped dead and sat down. They had been saved!

    The squirrel had been smart enough to jump off his revolving wheel. That, however, was how they discovered who the independent people were. And that was how they went about eliminating them. That same night the factory director was arrested. They easily pasted ten years on him on the pretext of something quite different. But after he had signed Form 206, the final document of the interrogation, his interrogator reminded him:

    “Don’t ever be the first to stop applauding.”
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