Chapter Eighteen: A Thunderclap on a Windless Day
The new party congress is a major event in the county's political life, and the county attaches great importance to the work of recommending representatives. The county requires all departments and townships to carefully and meticulously do a good job in selecting representatives. At present, the whole county is actively carrying out the work of recommending representatives.
The work of selecting and electing party representatives in Shanhe Township is also proceeding in an orderly manner, with everything appearing calm and peaceful.
Shanhe Township has a total of 10 representative seats. According to the requirements of the Organization Department, 12 candidates were nominated.
Wang Liben also attaches great importance to the work of recommending representatives this time. He knows that many people in the countryside are dissatisfied with him, but he doesn't take it seriously. The two party members designated as spare candidates are not enough to pose a threat to others. He and Deputy Secretary Xiao Yongnian have specially communicated with the branch secretaries of each station and village in the countryside. Everyone patted their chest and said there was no problem. In fact, this is also true. The recommendation work went very smoothly. The twelve people who were recommended were completely determined according to Wang Liben's intention, and no one raised any objections.
Such a result made Wang Liben extremely satisfied, and also greatly reduced his vigilance. He is now the absolute authority in Shanhe Township, and no one dares to offend him.
The nominated candidates were reported to the county party committee organization department, and after the organization department reviewed and approved them, the election of representatives was held as scheduled according to the unified deployment of the county party committee.
In the town hall of Shanhe Township, all the people who came to elect representatives have taken their seats.
Township Party Committee members, presidium members of the conference and county Organization Department staff Luo Zhili who came to guide the election in Shanshan Township took their seats on the rostrum.
Lu Zhengdong is neither a member of the Party Committee nor a member of the Presidium, and he does not have the qualifications to sit on the rostrum. He sat below the stage, listening to the speeches while flipping through the election documents in his hand.
There are 12 candidates, of whom three are township party committee leaders and the rest are model figures, women and representatives from various fronts. The election is conducted by secret ballot with a difference in votes. More than 120 party member representatives from the whole township elect 10 representatives to attend the county party congress from the 12 candidate positions. According to regulations, the top 10 vote-getters will be elected, which also means that two of them are playing the role of accompanying the prince to read books.
Actually, Wang Liben was already arranged, Jiang Mingwan from Ludong Village and Du Xinmin from the Agricultural Station were such roles. The former was a newly retired soldier who had just transferred to civilian work, with a short party age, not many people in the countryside knew him. The latter was narrow-minded and had poor relationships with people in the countryside, with little prestige in the countryside, actually also arranged to be eliminated by difference votes.
After the meeting began, Wang Liben finished speaking, and Yang Liguang, a member of the presidium and executive chairman of the county party committee's organizational department, read out the election rules and introduced the candidates before the election officially started.
After casting his vote, the counting of votes took some time. Wang Liben sat idly with nothing to do and returned to his office, leisurely sipping tea while waiting for the election results...
When Deputy Secretary Xiao Yongnian appeared before him, panting and tense, Wang Liben didn't think much of it, looked at Xiao Yongnian with a slight frown and said:
"Lao Xiao, why are you always so flustered and panicked whenever something small happens?"
Xiao Yongnian didn't care about Wang Liben's face, wiping his sweat while speaking in a frightened and stuttering tone:
"Director Wang, something big has happened...... something big has happened...... Director Wang...... you're about to be voted out......"
For this election, Xiao Yongnian was also relatively optimistic, as it wasn't a personnel election and the chances of mistakes were small. When voting, he went to the toilet with ease, but when he returned to the meeting room, he was shocked to see that Wang Liben's vote count was far behind, tied closely with Shi Xiaoming and Jiang Mingwan.
Du Xinmin, who was last, fell far behind and would definitely be eliminated. One of these three people must also be eliminated.
Xiao Yongnian and Yang Liguo exchanged a glance, both of them furrowed their brows, the meaning conveyed in their eyes was the same: they were both afraid of being the bearer of bad news, neither of them wanted to go and report such bad news to Wang Liben, and both of them hoped that Wang Liben would be elected, so that the outcome wouldn't be too terrible.
The two people looked at the votes of the three with tension, and gradually Shi Xiaoming's votes were pulling away. Wang Liben and Jiang Mingwan's rankings alternated between tenth and eleventh place. When Jiang Mingwan got a vote, Xiao Yongnian's heart couldn't help but throb. When Wang Liben got a vote, he felt a wave of relief in his heart.
However, as time went on, Jiang Mingwan's votes also gradually pulled away from Wang Liben. Seeing that Wang Liben was very likely to be eliminated, Yang Liguo, the executive chairman of the conference, was in charge of today's election and had room for excuses. He had no choice but to rush over to report to Wang Liben with a hard scalp...
Wang Li Ben's expression immediately turned serious as soon as he heard it:
"Who will be eliminated next, Luo Lin or Shi Xiaoming?"
Xiao Yongnian saw Wang Liben and didn't hear what he said at all. He just repeated it again:
"None of those... it's Secretary Wang... you..."
Wang Liben was somewhat perplexed:
"What's wrong with me?"
Xiao Yongnian saw Wang Liben still with a dull expression, so he could only continue with a sad face:
"You're about to be eliminated..."
"What?! Say it again?!"
Wang Liben suddenly stood up, he was not prepared for any thought, this news was like a sudden explosion of thunder in his head.
This election is no problem at all in his view, and even if there are any problems, it's other individual candidates, Wang Liben has never thought that he himself would have a problem!
"What...what have you done? How did it end up like this?"
After a while, Wang Liben finally roared in exasperation.
Xiao Yongnian was originally a soft-spoken person, and he had always been somewhat intimidated by Wang Liben. Looking into Wang's eyes, which seemed to be blazing with anger, Xiao felt his heart racing with anxiety. As the deputy secretary in charge of this election, Xiao knew that Wang would definitely hold him responsible for what had happened. He stuttered hastily:
"Secretary Wang, this matter had no signs at all, previously electing representatives were all passed unanimously, everything was very normal, really there were no signs at all..."
"Normal? Does this kind of thing happen normally?"
Wang Liben finally came to his senses, the previous things were all decided by show of hands, in front of everyone, no one would dare offend him openly, they all patted their chests and made a loud noise, even if they had opinions about him, they put on a loyal and devoted appearance, but the formal election was different, it was an anonymous vote, no one would know who didn't vote for him, so those guys came up with this move.
Too careless!
Wang Liben slammed his fist on the office desk, causing the teacups to jump up and shatter into pieces with a loud crash!
