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1961
Special> China's Tibet: Facts & Figures> Beijing Review Archives> 1961
UPDATED: May 9, 2008 NO. 33, 1961
Tibet to Hold Elections
 
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Democratic elections will be held in parts of Tibet this autumn. This was announced by the Standing Committee of the Preparatory Committee for the Tibet Autonomous Region which held its 40th enlarged session on August 2. These elections will be a "pilot project" to gain experience for the holding of general elections throughout the whole of the Tibet region at a later date.

The whole nation greeted the news with elation. Exercise of their right to elect the local organs of state power and their local governments marks a significant new step in the advance of the Tibetan people, most of whom lived under the shackles of serfdom only a few years back. The resolution adopted at the enlarged session of the Preparatory Committee for the Tibet Autonomous Region hails the coming establishment in Tibet of people's congresses and people's councils at various levels through democratic elections as "an important step in thoroughly completing the democratic reform and consolidating the people's democratic dictatorship -- a great event without any precedent in the history of Tibet."

The decision to hold elections in the current year in parts of Tibet where conditions are ripe was made at the 5th Plenary Session of the Preparatory Committee for the Tibet Autonomous Region early this year. Carrying forward that decision the present session of the Standing Committee of the Preparatory Committee resolved that these elections will be held in parts of the region in accordance with the Electoral Law of the People's Republic of China, the 1953 directive on the elections at primary levels and actual conditions in Tibet.

The meeting was presided over by Panchen Erdeni, who is the Acting Chairman of the Preparatory Committee for the Tibet Autonomous Region. Speaking at the meeting, Panchen Erdeni pointed out that the labouring people in Tibet enjoyed no democratic rights whatsoever when Tibet was under the dark rule of feudal serfdom. Now a great victory has been won in democratic reform and conditions exist for holding general elections in most parts of the region.

Panchen Erdeni said that "elections will be carried out step by step at the basic level to set up the people's congresses at the township level. Then, the people's congresses at the county level will be elected, so that conditions for the convening of the people's congress of the autonomous region will be created."

The meeting also passed a bill on the 1960 financial report and the 1961 budget for Tibet.

(This article appears on page 3, No. 33, 1961)



 
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