41.   The motion then could be carried by Social Democrats alone, even if all other deputies voted against it.

42.   Thirty-seven deputies voted against it, and four abstained.

43.   They also saw another election in which township congress deputies voted for the congress chairman and vice chairman and elected a township magistrate and vice magistrates.

44.   Twenty-one deputies voted against.

45.   Two deputies voted outgoing NPC chief Qiao Shi for president and a third voted to make him vice-president.

46.   Welfare deputies voted against both probes this week.

47.   Forty-one deputies voted against the debate, with the others abstaining.

48.   Forty-six left-wing deputies voted for the motion.

49.   Hours earlier his fellow deputies had voted to lift his parliamentary immunity from prosecution.

50.   In a closed-door session, deputies will vote on a recommendation that Claes be stripped of his immunity as a former government minister.