The party is actively wrestling with how best to improve the quality of its ties with the population. Many of the issues under consideration involve increasing “democracy” within the CCP itself by, for example, actually allowing each party congress to elect the leadership of the party at its own territorial level, rather than having the congress simply ratify nomenclatural appointments decided by the next highest level. The issues the party confronts as it seeks to adjust its posture are complex and wide ranging. In the words of a knowledgeable insider in the summer of 2002.