The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the
Communist Party of China (CPC) on Monday announced that local
officials found guilty of buying votes in Party elections have been
severely punished.
This was announced by the commission at a joint press conference
on Monday.
The officials, including Lei Yingquan, former head of investment
division of the Finance Department under the Sichuan Provincial
People's Government, Shao Jianwei, former director of the Public
Security Bureau of the Linfen City, Shanxi Province, Wu Bao'an,
former secretary of the Yicheng County Committee of the CPC, Shanxi
Province, Yin Liming, deputy magistrate of the Lianghe County,
Yunnan Province, have been severely punished in line with national
and Party laws for buying or selling official posts.
"Corruption can shake and undermine the CPC's ruling foundation
and capacity," said Wu Jiang, president of the Chinese Academy of
Personnel Science in an interview with Xinhua.
Liu Xirong, deputy secretary of the commission, said that
officials who are found to have acquired official posts through
illegitimate means will be criticized and punished and will be
demoted and will lose further promotion prospects.
Officials in charge of supervising discipline who fail to report
any wrongdoing will also be punished.?
Liu also stressed that officials who are found selling or buying
official posts or who are involved with any other illicit
activities relating to promotions will be discharged from their
post and could face prosecution.
(Xinhua News Agency January 24, 2006)