白信 in DW: #China's revision of #HongKong's electoral law stole the show at this year's NPC. But we may have missed an equally big story: the NPC also voted to emasculate itself via its own organic law, undoing '82 Constitution 后疫情时代的“东升西降 #香港 p.dw.com/p/3qVIa?maca=z…
According to the 1982 state constitution, "All power in the People’s Republic of #China belongs to the people.
"The National People’s Congress and the local people’s congresses at various levels are the organs through which the people exercise state power."
"The National People’s Congress and the local people’s congresses at various levels are the organs through which the people exercise state power."
It also recognised the NPC as "the highest organ of state power." These changes were ushered in in 1982, according to observer/participant Wang Hanbin, under the supervision of Peng Zhen in order to secure the role of the people as the masters of the state: "保证人民当家做主"
Of course, the Constitution's Preamble states that "the Chinese people of all nationalities will continue to adhere to the people’s democratic dictatorship and the socialist road" under the leadership of the CCP...
and, as @BackerLarry noted: "The govt established under Nat/l Constitution serves as the institutionalization of state power, w/in which the people may more directly participate under the
guidance of the Party. The Party is the repository of political power;"
guidance of the Party. The Party is the repository of political power;"
And "the govt., the repository of administrative power." But, as 白信 notes, this year's amendment more fully instantiates the leadership of the Party over the NPC, "subverting the basic principle of the NPC as the supreme organ of national power as set out in the Constitution..
"The introduction of Leninist-style democratic centralist party discipline as the working principle of the NPC is tantamount to the abolition of the democratic process of the NPC as an organ of democratic representation, at least formally"
"The net result neuters the already modest democratic spirit of the 1982 NPC system presided over by Peng Zhen & clears remaining obstacles to the establishment of a permanent absolutist authority system in the future at the 14th NPC in two years' time."
"The NPC's self-castration puts itself- and the nominal supreme authority of the state, the political embodiment of the people- in a cage, probably as a demonstration to #HongKong" of its total subordination to the CCP #香港 白信， “后疫情时代的“东升西降” p.dw.com/p/3qVIa?maca=z…
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