President of the city’s Fatherland Front Committee To Thi Bich Chau (R) chairs the second consultative conference. (Photo: VNA) Standing Vice President of the city’s Fatherland Front Committee, Nguyen Thanh Trung,said that as of March 16, it had received 51 applications to run for theelection of deputies to the 15th National Assembly, including from 15 self-nominatedcandidates.
Sixteen candidates are female (accounting for 31 percent of the total), 16 are non-Partymembers (31 percent), eight are under 40 years old (16 percent), eight are fromethnic minorities (15 percent), and 15 are seeking re-election (29 percent). Ofthe total, 98 percent have completed graduate or post-graduate studies, Trungadded.
Participants voted in favour of the list.
Participants at the conference vote in favour of the list. (Photo: VNA) Chairing the conference, President of the city’s Fatherland Front To Thi BichChau said that from March 21 to April 13, the front’s standing committee willorganise a conference to determine whether NA candidates have the confidence ofvoters in their residential area and whether People’s Council candidates havethe confidence of voters in their places of work.
A third consultative conference is scheduled for April 17.
According to the allocation from the NA Standing Committee, HCM City is toelect 30 deputies to the 15th NA and 95 deputies to the municpalPeople’s Council.
The elections are set to take placeon May 23./.
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