CHINA-LEADERSHIP: ANTI-CORRUPTION CAMPAIGN IN LIAONING
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China's official news agency Xinhua reported on September 13, 2016, that forty-five of the 94 current National People's congress (NPC) delegates from Liaoning have been expelled from the congress and 523 of the 613 delegates to the Liaoning Provincial People’s Congress have been sacked, including 38 of the 62 members of the Congress’s Standing Committee and Vice Chair Zheng Yuzhou, have been expelled from that body. Xinhua described it as an “unprecedented” scandal involving vote buying and electoral fraud. On September 19, 2016, the Liaoning Daily reported that over 450 delegates have resigned in connection with the scandal.
(Comment: 35 of these Delegates have been identified as Chairmen or General Managers of Corporations. Included among them are Wang Wenliang, a Chinese billionaire and donor to the Clinton Foundation and Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, and the Party Secretary of Fudan University.)
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