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To: Tom who wrote (2830)	4/29/1999 11:14:00 PM
From: Ron Bower	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2951

One small step- Friday April 30 1999 'Historic township vote' in Shenzhen DANIEL KWAN Shenzhen yesterday held what it claimed was the mainland's first "democratic election" of a township boss. Li Weiwen was elected by Dapeng People's Congress as head of the township government with "double ballots". The "double ballots" refers to two ballots - one by individual voters in Dapeng township and the election yesterday by the local people's congress. Official media claimed Mr Li had not already been chosen by the local Communist Party leadership. The 48-year-old incumbent won more than 65 per cent of the votes in January when more than 5,000 Dapeng residents held a preliminary election to select their preferred candidates. Media in Guangdong stressed yesterday's election marked an important step in the province's democratic process, even though it came three months after Buyun, in Sichuan province, held the mainland's first democratic election of a township leadership. Compared with the Buyun experiment, the election in Dapeng yesterday was obviously held under the party's strict control. Highlighting this was Guangdong's official Yangcheng Evening News which published an "important" apology for a report on Wednesday which said the Dapeng election marked the first time the Communist Party was no longer responsible for the nomination of candidates. It then explained at length that any candidates chosen by voters would need to win the endorsement and approval of the Communist Party before they could be considered eligible.