An online training session on the examination and monitoring of the elections of deputies to the 15th-tenure National Assembly and all-level People’s Councils for the 2021-2026 tenure (Photo: VNA) The elections of deputies to the 15th-tenureNational Assembly and all-level People’s Councils for the 2021-2026 tenure arescheduled to take place on May 23, which falls on Sunday.
This is an important political event aimed atselecting outstanding and deserving deputies who represent the people’s will,aspirations, and right to mastery in the NA and all-level People’s Councils inthe new tenure, which is expected to help build, consolidate, and perfect alaw-governed socialist State of the people, by the people, and for the peopleunder the leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam.
Firstconsultative conferences: Democratic, in line with law
The first consultative conferences were held inall 63 cities and provinces nationwide from February 3 to 17.
They showed true democracy, as seen through thecontribution of opinions to the NA Standing Committee and People’s CouncilStanding Boards’ draft plans on candidacy structure, along with the criteriafor deputies at the NA and People’s Councils.
The VFF Central Committee said the firstconferences agreed that 1,076 candidates will be nominated for the NA election,equivalent to 2.15 times the number of deputies planned to be elected. Thedifference between the numbers of candidates and deputies elected was 2.04times in the 14th NA election and 2.2 times in the election to the 13th legislature.
Meanwhile, the number of candidates to run for seats in all-level People’s Councils in the new tenure will be 7,656; 2.06times higher than the 3,715 deputies to be chosen. This difference was 1.66times and 2.02 times in the 2016 and 2011 elections, respectively.
Among the 7,656 candidates to be nominated forall-level People’s Councils, there are 1,690 women (22.1 percent of the total),748 ethnic minority people (9.8 percent), and 555 who are not Party members(7.2 percent).
Increasing examination, monitoring topromote quality of second consultative conferences
A view of the online training session on the examination and monitoring of the general elections (Photo: VNA) Hau A Lenh, member of the Party CentralCommittee, Vice President and Secretary-General of the VFF Central Committee,and deputy head of the VFF Central Committee’s steering board for electionaffairs, said that to gear up for the second conferences, the VFF has providedinstructions to central agencies and localities on the nomination of theircandidates, the organisation of voters’ meetings to look into candidates’dossiers, and the selection of eligible and outstanding persons for candidacy.
To choose moral and talented persons, the NA Standing Committee issued a newregulation stating that a deputy of the NA or People’s Councils must receivesupport from more than 50 percent of voters in their residential area.
Vice President of the VFF Central Committee Ngo Sach Thuc said voter confidenceis an important measurement of the eligibility of NA and People’s Councildeputies.
Given this, the recent joint resolution of theNA Standing Committee, the VFF Central Committee’s Presidium, and theGovernment paid great attention to candidates’ creditability. Those with a lowlevel of creditability in their residential areas or workplace will not beincluded on the lists of candidates, he said.
The reception and consideration of candidates’dossiers are scheduled to conclude at 5pm on March 14, and the secondconsultative conferences will take place five days later, on March 19.
The VFF is now stepping up monitoring andexamination to gain a good grasp of the implementation of election affairs inlocalities, thereby identifying any difficulties or violations of electionregulations or electoral rules and taking timely measures to ensure thatelections are truly democratic and accord with the law./.
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