The Yunlin District Prosecutor's Office filed a lawsuit against 11 people, including 3 township mayors and 1 member-elect, to invalidate their election.

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[Reporter Zhan Shihong/Yunlin Report] "Electing with money does not mean being elected!" The Yunlin District Prosecutor's Office fulfilled its pre-election oath, and today made a big move against the mayor-elect, councilor-elect Xiao Huimin, and other places in Mailiao, Taixi, and Beigang townships A total of 11 people, including those elected in the public office election, filed a lawsuit to invalidate their election.

The Yunlin District Prosecutor’s Office stated that the Yunlin bribery investigation team had investigated many election bribery cases before the election, and became more active after the election. They successively filed public prosecutions for cases with sufficient evidence, and quickly filed lawsuits against elected candidates suspected of bribery. Criminal and civil investigation of bribery legal responsibility.

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The District Prosecutor’s Office pointed out that although Article 120, Paragraph 1, Subparagraph 3 of the Public Official Election and Recall Law stipulates that if the elected person has the same behavior as Article 99, Paragraph 1 of the law, the prosecutor can file a lawsuit against the elected person as the defendant to the competent court for the invalidation of the election. However, most courts believe that the "elect" here is not limited to those who act on their own initiative, such as joint participation, instigation or consent of election bribery by relatives, friends or members of the campaign team, etc., which do not violate their original intentions, etc. In any case, it is a joint election bribery act by the elected persons.

In addition to filing 11 invalidation lawsuits, the District Procuratorate will also review other cases as soon as possible to see if they meet the requirements of the election invalidation lawsuit, and file the election invalidation lawsuit to the court within the statutory time limit.

In addition, for the election of the chairman and deputy speaker of the parliament, and the chairman and vice chairman of the township (town, city) representative committee, the local prosecutor's office has formed a dedicated bribery investigation team to actively investigate bribery elections.

The three township mayors who have been sued for invalid election include Cai Changkun, the mayor-elect of Mailiao Township, involved in the cash bribery case; Li Wenlai, the mayor-elect of Taixi Township, involved in the cash bribery case; Election bribery case.

In addition, Xiao Huimin, the county councilor-elect, was involved in cash buying of votes; Xu Hanlang, the representative-elect of the 3rd constituency of Mailiao Township Representative, was involved in cash bribery; Gift bribery case; election bribery case of Wang Lihua, elected representative of Dapi township; Lin Jiahong, elected representative of Dongshi villager, involved in cash bribery case; Zhang Minxiong, elected representative of Baozhong village representative; election bribery case of elected chief of Wanxing Village, Shuilin Township Liu Ruiji is suspected of cash bribery.