“公推直选”是1999年—2009年党内建设中具有标志性的创新成果之一,也是基层党内民主建设中一种新的选举民主模式。“公推”是指党员和群众公开推荐基层党组织领导班子成员,是一个初始提名的问题,目的是增进基层党组织领导班子的合法性基础;而“直选”是指党员直接选举基层党组织书记、副书记,是一个自由选择的问题,目的是更好地体现选举人的意 “Direct election by public opinion ” is one of the symbolic innovations in intra-party construction in 1999-2009 and is also a new model of electoral democracy in the building of grass-roots inner-party democracy. “Public promotion” refers to the fact that party members and the masses publicly recommend grass-roots party organizations as leading bodies and is an issue of initial nomination with the purpose of promoting the legitimacy foundation of the leading bodies of grass-roots party organizations; and “direct election” refers to the direct election of party members The party secretary and deputy secretary of the grassroots party are a free choice question, so as to better reflect the elector’s intention