Chen Zhiwei, deputy county chief of Zhangpu County, Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, fell into the sea and disappeared. China Human Rights Democracy Information Center revealed that the incident may be related to the village committee election fraud.
According to “Chutian Metropolis Daily”, Zhangpu County Public Security Bureau on January 11 informed that at 11:44 on January 9 received a report that someone fell into the water at the General Ao wharf in Zhangpu County’s Chihu Town Tingli Village, to the scene so far did not find the person who fell into the water; criminal investigation technicians investigated and confirmed that the county’s deputy county chief Chen fell into the water and lost, initially ruling out criminal cases, to January 12, news that the missing person is the deputy county chief Chen Zhiwei.
The “Chutian Metropolis Newspaper” reported that it was found that several local people had reported Chen Zhiwei in 2016 and 2017. However, when the newspaper’s reporters called the villagers’ phone numbers in the above-mentioned reporting information, one was an empty number and another number was unanswered.
But the Hong Kong-based China Human Rights and Democracy Information Center reported on the 12th heavy news that before Chen Zhiwei was promoted to deputy county chief in July 2016, some people complained to the province and city in May 2016 that “Chen Zhiwei used his power to protect corrupt people and was suspected of taking huge bribes”; in 2017, thousands of villagers in Zhangpu County’s Shaxi Town’s Yutou Village signed a joint complaint against him for corruption.
The newspaper quoted complaints from villagers in Yutou Village, saying that on August 21, 2015, the Shaxi town government went to Yutou Village to supervise the general election, and there were 4248 voters in Yutou Village, but only 2034 actually participated in the election, which was invalid according to the election law.
The report said the incident exposed the seriousness of election fraud in China’s village committees, and cited the case of Wang Meibin, deputy mayor of Baotou, Inner Mongolia, who was being investigated when he jumped to his death, saying that Chen Zhiwei’s death may be related to the 109 corruption cases in which villagers in Yutou village have filed complaints with the Chinese Communist Party’s Commission for Discipline Inspection, the Supreme Prosecutor, and the State Bureau of Letters and Calls.
Election fraud at the grassroots level is commonplace in the CCP. The most famous of these is the village of Wukan in Guangdong. The village held a world-renowned democratic election for its village committee in 2011 to protest against election fraud and land rights, but the whole thing ended in 2016 with the suppression of land rights and the arrest of elected village committee chief Lin Zuoren.
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