Morning Clicks | Guangdong NPC delegate proposes 'anti-corruption lottery' to save himself from 'slavery'
With several soundbytes delivered yesterday by Guangdong legislator Ye Pengzhi, it's hard to determine which one has offended netizens the most.
"Officials are civil servants," said delegate Ye Pengzhi at yesterday's meeting in Guangzhou, "not slaves to the people."
The Communist Party already has plenty of ways to monitor officials, Ye argues, so declaring assets internally should suffice rather than making them public.
Using the same reasoning others have over the past few days why details of officials' assets should be kept private, Ye says once that bridge is crossed things are likely to spin out of control, adding the issue is being used as a guise for those pushing a "populist" agenda in the name of public opinion.
"Officials need privacy in the same way that sick people get privacy in medical records when they seek treatment...Is there even a legal basis in requiring officials publicly declare their assets?," he asks.