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Post by iainbhx on Jan 8, 2014 8:42:57 GMT
There will be elections to the Supreme People's Assembly on March 9th DPRK elections calledShould we have a turnout prediction contest, I'll start with 99.99%  |
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Post by erlend on Jan 8, 2014 11:40:23 GMT
Do you really think that several thousand will not vote. They would be betraying all the dear leaders and need retrospectively to be struck from the register.
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Post by iainbhx on Jan 8, 2014 12:13:39 GMT
Do you really think that several thousand will not vote. They would be betraying all the dear leaders and need retrospectively to be struck from the register. Turnout last time was reported to be 99.98% of voters, 100% of which voted for the parties of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland. There are even arrangements for the sick, housebound and those abroad to vote even if you are in an overseas prison. The discrepancies are usually down to people who have died or those who have recently become traitors to the Juche idea. There are serious penalties for not voting usually involving compulsory re-education. You can, of course, vote against the official candidate by asking for a red pen to cross out their name on the ballot. He is not the Dear Leader, btw, he is the Supreme Leader and Comrade. |
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Post by Dan on Jan 8, 2014 12:42:08 GMT
100% of which voted for the parties of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland. The current breakdown of the Supreme People's Assembly: Workers Party of Korea - 601 seats Korean Social Democratic Party - 51 seats Chondoist Chongu Party - 21 seats Independents - 13 seats |
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Post by johnloony on Jan 8, 2014 17:53:32 GMT
The results are usually given in the form of a list of constituencies with the name of the elected candidate, but without any individual voting figures, plus a general national figure for the percentage turnout and percentage vote for those voting in favour.
The reality is that the official figures are of course complete fiction. It is probably more a matter of inventing a total figure than using compulsion to persuade people to vote, although such persuasion is also used. Those who don't vote are just pretended not to have not voted.
One of my communist acquaintances once explained to me that the point of voting in a single-candidate election in what is (de-facto) a single-party state (albeit that the main party has two subservient parties) is that the general election itself is the end-point in the process; the rubber-stamping of the decisions already made. The real work (he explained) is the process of selection and nomination in which committees of workers and soldiers (etc) have lots of meetings to discuss who the candidate should be. It is this process of selection which makes people's democracy more meaningful than bourgeois democracy (where ordinary people are frozen out of the more meaningful process of selecting candidates before the election).
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Post by Pimpernal on Jan 23, 2014 11:41:00 GMT
There may actually be something in that...
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Post by Tony Otim on Jan 23, 2014 11:43:42 GMT
Although the cure may be considerably worse than the malady in this case...
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Jan 23, 2014 19:41:16 GMT
Ah, the original Patriotic Socialist Party!
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Post by Richard Cromwell on Jan 23, 2014 20:09:03 GMT
The DPRK can, in my opinion, be forgiven of most of its sins. Jong-Un is doing a lot of good for the country (moving away from the 'Military First' in favour of a new housing project and a focus on consumer goods). Having yet to fall to the West (unlike its neighbour to the north), North Korea is one of the last true socialist nations.
Juche is a legitimate development in Marxism-Leninism when it is contextualised; they are a severely isolated state whose existence is an affront to the one and only world superpower. Of course, I may be biased in that I can over look hyper-nationalism.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2014 21:44:09 GMT
The DPRK can, in my opinion, be forgiven of most of its sins. Jong-Un is doing a lot of good for the country (moving away from the 'Military First' in favour of a new housing project and a focus on consumer goods). Having yet to fall to the West (unlike its neighbour to the north), North Korea is one of the last true socialist nations. Juche is a legitimate development in Marxism-Leninism when it is contextualised; they are a severely isolated state whose existence is an affront to the one and only world superpower. Of course, I may be biased in that I can over look hyper-nationalism. Biased? You are totally and utterly insane. |
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Post by Richard Cromwell on Jan 23, 2014 22:19:44 GMT
The DPRK can, in my opinion, be forgiven of most of its sins. Jong-Un is doing a lot of good for the country (moving away from the 'Military First' in favour of a new housing project and a focus on consumer goods). Having yet to fall to the West (unlike its neighbour to the north), North Korea is one of the last true socialist nations. Juche is a legitimate development in Marxism-Leninism when it is contextualised; they are a severely isolated state whose existence is an affront to the one and only world superpower. Of course, I may be biased in that I can over look hyper-nationalism. Biased? You are totally and utterly insane. As opposed to totally but not utterly? |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2014 22:29:05 GMT
Utterly butterly bananas.
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Post by andrewt on Feb 17, 2014 22:12:35 GMT
The DPRK can, in my opinion, be forgiven of most of its sins. Jong-Un is doing a lot of good for the country (moving away from the 'Military First' in favour of a new housing project and a focus on consumer goods). Having yet to fall to the West (unlike its neighbour to the north), North Korea is one of the last true socialist nations. Juche is a legitimate development in Marxism-Leninism when it is contextualised; they are a severely isolated state whose existence is an affront to the one and only world superpower. Of course, I may be biased in that I can over look hyper-nationalism. Have you heard about the recent UN report citing crimes against humanity reminiscent of the worst Nazi atrocities? They certainly can never be forgiven for those sins. |
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Post by markgoodair on Feb 17, 2014 23:15:54 GMT
I would happily hang the bastard myself.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2014 23:41:27 GMT
The DPRK can, in my opinion, be forgiven of most of its sins. Jong-Un is doing a lot of good for the country (moving away from the 'Military First' in favour of a new housing project and a focus on consumer goods). Having yet to fall to the West (unlike its neighbour to the north), North Korea is one of the last true socialist nations. Juche is a legitimate development in Marxism-Leninism when it is contextualised; they are a severely isolated state whose existence is an affront to the one and only world superpower. Of course, I may be biased in that I can over look hyper-nationalism. Have you heard about the recent UN report citing crimes against humanity reminiscent of the worst Nazi atrocities? They certainly can never be forgiven for those sins. Doubt that will put Cromwell off. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2014 23:42:11 GMT
I would happily hang the bastard myself. Think Armchair would have some competition for the job for once - basically all of us bar Merseymike and Cromwell. |
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Post by Devonian on Mar 8, 2014 9:59:24 GMT
Election Campaign broadcast
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Post by AdminSTB on Mar 8, 2014 10:09:50 GMT
I presume the Korean text reads "Vote Patriotic Socialist Party!"
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2014 11:48:30 GMT
I presume the Korean text reads "Vote Patriotic Socialist Party!" ...or you'll be stripped naked and locked up with a hundred starving dogs. |
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Post by Devonian on Mar 10, 2014 18:05:16 GMT
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