Voters of Quang Nam province's Border Guard at the polling station No. 12 in Hoa Thuan ward, Tam Ky city (Photo: VNA) Talking to the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) late on May 23 after the electionswere completed, Tra said this political event really became a festival of theentire people.
Tra, who is also a member of the National Election Council (NEC), emphasisedthat security, order and safety were guaranteed for the elections.
According to the minister, the high turnout rate of voters nationwide, even inCOVID-19 pandemic-hit areas, showed the people's faithin the regime, the Party and the State in building a socialist rule-of-law state.
Tra said in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, localities and relevantunits have made all efforts to disseminate information about the elections andmobilise voters to participate in the event.
The entire political system has focused on leading, directing and organisingthe elections, along with the positive response, consensus and unity of thepeople, she noted.
Local election organising agencies created the most favourable conditions forpeople to exercise their citizenship rights and obligations, thus promotingdemocracy, she said.
For voters, they still well performed their citizen rights and duty even in the context of extremely complex developments of the pandemic,Tra added.
Preliminary reports show that 95.65percent of voters nationwide went to the polls by 17:30 on May 23 to electdeputies to the 15th National Assembly and all-level People’s Councils for the2021-2026 term.
More than 69 million people across the country voted to elect 500 deputies tothe 15th NA among 866 candidates.
Meanwhile, 3,726 deputies were expected to be selectedamong 6,199 candidates to provincial-level People’s Councils, 22,952 deputiesto district-level People’s Councils among 37,468 candidates, and 242,312deputies to communal-level People’s Councils among 405,244 candidates./.
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