Chinese Go To Polls
(N.Z.P.A.'Reuter—Copyright) PEKING, April 4 More than two million Peking voters streamed to the polls yesterday in bright sunshine to elect deputies for eight local people’s congresses. From dawn onwards loudspeakers exhorted people to cast their votes for single lists of candidates numbering about 2400, while Communist youth groups paraded noisily with drums, trumpets and cymbals through streets decorated for the occasion with flags, streamers and scarlet lanterns. Today’s balloting in the capital and its inner suburbs forms part of nation-wide elections spread over several months at the local district level, and only one at which the Chinese people directly elect their own representatives.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31027, 5 April 1966, Page 17
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