December 23rd is the day that will decide the fate of the Republic of China in the next five years. On this day last year, the House of Representatives and the Senate will vote to determine the second president. Huaxia Square was packed with onlookers.
People, they all want to know the results of the voting as soon as possible.
Starting at 8 o'clock in the morning, members of Congress began to enter the venue. All members looked calm. The crowd asked who they would vote for, but they remained silent. On the square, some people held signs with slogans to show their opposition.
Support from all presidential candidates, with the most slogans supporting Wan Lei’s re-election.
However, every congressman has his own benchmark in mind. As for who to vote for, they will definitely not be affected by these slogans in the square. As a congressman, being cautious in words and deeds is also one of the basic requirements. Before the election results are announced,
Previously, they were not allowed to publicly announce who they would support to avoid affecting the outcome of the vote.
In addition to members of the House of Representatives and the Senate, there were also many special guests. These guests included envoys from various countries and international students from Nanming. They witnessed the change of the highest power in the Republic of China for the first time, and they felt novel and excited.
Deeply shocked.
Especially those overseas students from Nanming. After watching yesterday's campaign speeches and debates, they did not dare to make any comments after they returned, but they felt vaguely in their hearts: The president elected through the general election is indeed better in governing ability than the hereditary one.
The emperor was much stronger. I even felt that the Republic of China was much stronger than Nanming in terms of national structure.
Of course, I can only think about this kind of thing in my heart. Those overseas students dare not say it openly, otherwise they will definitely be punished when they go back. After all, Nanming is an imperial system, and the emperor keeps his word. Although he was driven out of the Central Plains, he was still in Nanzhou.
With three acres of land, the emperor surnamed Zhu still had supreme authority.
At nine o'clock in the morning, all the members arrived and queued up outside one hundred polling places. The staff at the venue distributed the numbered ballots to the members in turn. The names of the four candidates were on the ballots.
They choose to put a check mark on a candidate's name and put their vote into the ballot box.
Since the polling place is closed, only one person can enter at a time. During the voting process, all members are independent and free from any external interference, and no one can peek. Members can even choose to abstain from voting, that is, not vote.
If more than half of the abstention votes occur, the Senate will re-recommend the list of presidential candidates and restart the speech and debate process.
The voting process is very time-consuming. The votes have been collected before ten o'clock, and the next step is to count the votes. The congressmen elected two hundred people as notaries on the spot and dispersed them to one hundred polling stations to supervise the venue staff to count the votes. Each vote was counted.
After the valid votes are counted, they are stamped. This process is both cumbersome and very solemn, and the participating members of the meeting were talking in small groups while anxiously waiting for the results of the counting.
"Wan Lei, the 1800th vote." A loud voice rang out in the venue. The congressmen present were stunned for a moment, and then warm applause broke out, because Wan Lei had already won more than half of the votes, although the votes were still being counted.
It is not over yet, but according to the provisions of the constitution, he has received enough votes. If this election is not accused of being unconstitutional, he will become the second president of the Republic of China.
When members of the House of Representatives and presidential candidates congratulated Wan Lei one after another, the vote counting work was finally over. Wan Lei received 2,452 votes, with a vote rate of over 60%. Tie Xuan, Xu Huizu and others combined had only
Getting more than 30% of the votes is simply not enough to compete with Wan Lei.
However, Wan Lei's success in this election was expected by everyone. After all, a few months ago, Zhao Hongru, the leader of the business faction, turned against Wan Lei and tried his best to cheer for Wan Lei. All the members knew that Wan Lei
With enough chips in hand for re-election, the congressmen who were still wavering finally joined Wan Lei's side.
As soon as the news of Wan Lei's successful election came out, the supporters gathered in Huaxia Square began to revel. The Nanming envoys who were watching the ceremony had unhappy faces. They least wanted Wan Lei to continue to be in power, because Wan Lei was as smart as a ghost.
If Lei was in power for another five years, the possibility of Nanming's counterattack on the Central Plains would be almost gone.
There was a lot of joy outside, but the luncheon started in Xia Garden. Although they were secretly unhappy, the envoys from Nanming had to come forward to congratulate them like envoys from other countries. After all, they still had to deal with the Republic of China and offended their president.
Good fruit to eat.
During the luncheon, everyone toasted to Wan Lei. Wan Lei did not drink much. He just accepted the toasts from Tie Xuan, Xu Huizu and Xia Yuanji. In Wan Lei's view, although these three people were running on the same stage with him, they were not the same.
It is not a life-and-death relationship. Once the election results come out, everyone can still cooperate and be friends. So much so that at the banquet, Wan Lei personally toasted Tie Xuan, hoping to invite him to continue to serve as Prime Minister of the Executive Yuan.
Wan Lei's disregard of previous accusations immediately attracted the attention of the House of Representatives. More members saw that Wan Lei wanted to focus on stability and did not want to make too big personnel changes in the Executive Yuan and the provinces and governments. This was also
The officials who were serving in the Executive Yuan and various provinces and governments breathed a sigh of relief... their positions were saved.
After the dust of the election has settled, the House of Representatives can rest in the afternoon, while the Senate convenes a Senate meeting to begin reviewing the list of main leaders of central agencies such as the Executive Yuan, the Court, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate submitted by Wan Lei. After the Senate has reviewed and approved it, it will be submitted to the House of Representatives for deliberation.
, if more than half of the members agree, the list will be approved, and the new leadership team will be established.
In fact, the appointment of officials is based on the principle of promotion from outside and transfer from within, that is, officials in the capital must be promoted from outside, and only those officials who are transferred from outside can be transferred internally if they are excellent in the assessment. Han Feizi said: Prime ministers must start from prefectures and counties, and powerful generals must be sent to
After all, good officials must be trained at the grassroots level.
Therefore, almost all the principal and deputy positions of the original ministries were sent out to the local provinces to serve as frontier historians, while the local frontier historians were transferred internally to the central government to take up their posts. For a time, there would be a large-scale personnel transfer. But whether it was
Whether to transfer externally or internally, we must abide by the principle of appointing people based on their ability and placing the right people in the right positions. This is the best way to employ people.
While mobilizing senior officials, Wan Lei also specially promoted some middle-level officials who had achieved outstanding political achievements at the local level and asked them to return to the central government for internships. He even promoted some people from the most basic civil servants and took them into Huayuan as employees.
Secretary, assists in handling the government affairs of the Presidential Palace, and dispatches people who originally served in the Huayuan Secretariat to various places for job training.
A series of personnel adjustments have been made in the central ministries and local provinces. Although the changes are huge, the impact on ordinary people is very small, because both central and local officials have principles and disciplines. Who is in charge?