More than 5,000 voters in Wukan went to the polls yesterday in the southern Chinese village’s first free election in decades.
Wukan vaulted into the international spotlight after thousands of villagers turned out in daily protests against the local authorities in December for more than a week. As part of a truce, the Guangdong provincial government promised the residents of Wukan an election in which they would be free to choose their own leaders.
Since the late 1980s, candidates in China’s village elections have usually been vetted by party officials with independent candidates having little chance of being elected.
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