After the election, the Penghu District Prosecutor's Office prosecuted four cases of invalid election.

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[Reporter Liu Yuqing/Penghu Report] This year's 5-in-1 election, the Penghu District Prosecutor's Office is in full swing to investigate bribery. Although the election has been successfully concluded, the pace of inspections and bribery in Penghu has not stopped, and the last mile of bribery has been taken. A total of 4 cases were elected The invalidity lawsuit covers elected members such as councilors, village chiefs, and representatives, sowing uncertainties for the future political arena in Penghu.

In order to implement the core goal of bribery investigation of "fair elections and eradicating illegal activities", the Penghu District Prosecutor's Office completely deprived candidates of their criminal achievements due to illegal election bribery. According to the provisions of Article 120, the county councilors, village representatives, and village chiefs who were involved in bribery in their jurisdictions were recently filed to invalidate their elections to defend the universal value of "those who bribed voters shall not enjoy the results of elections."

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This time, the local procuratorate filed a total of 4 lawsuits against the invalidation of the election. They are: Zhang surnamed county councilor elected director Zhuang surnamed office involved in cash buying tickets; Buying tickets; the village chief and his spouse in Neilong Village, Xiyu Township, involved cash and future contracts to buy tickets; the relatives and friends of the elected village chief Chen in Jingdongli, Magong City involved fraudulent transfer of household registration to obtain voting rights (that is, ghost population) and other crimes, which made the election Unfair results have been produced, so a lawsuit of invalid election is filed against the elected candidates in the above-mentioned elections according to law.

Huang Zhiyong, Chief Prosecutor of the Penghu District Prosecutor's Office, said that although the election of local public officials has ended peacefully this year, prosecutors, as representatives of the public interest, will still firmly implement future lawsuits for invalid elections and maintain the hard-won democratic system.

Looking forward to the coming year, the Penghu area will hold national elections for the president, vice president, and legislators. Prosecutors at the District Prosecutor’s Office will continue to sing songs and continue to work hard to investigate bribery. At the same time, we hope that the people will become ambassadors of justice and dare to report the crimes related to the election. Love affairs, to create the Qingming election style in Penghu area.