COVID-19 prevention crucial to success of elections
COVID-19 prevention and control work has enjoyed due attention in all localities to ensure the success of the elections of the deputies to the 15th National Assembly (NA) and People’s Councils for the 2021-2026 tenure, according to Bui Van Cuong, NA Secretary General, Chairman of the NA Office and Chief of the National Election Council Office.
COVID-19 prevention measures put in place at a polling station. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – COVID-19 prevention and control work has enjoyed dueattention in all localities to ensure the success of the elections of thedeputies to the 15th National Assembly (NA) and People’s Councilsfor the 2021-2026 tenure, according to Bui Van Cuong, NA Secretary General,Chairman of the NA Office and Chief of the National Election Council Office.
Cuong said on May 23 that the elections have been held in accordance with the setplan.
Armed force in Ho Chi Minh City cast ballot on the election day. (Photo: VNA)
Several localities claimed high turnout such as Dien Bien province with 85percent, Quang Ninh 84 percent, and Da Nang over 50 percent.
Nearly 69.2 million voters across Vietnam are eligible to go to the polls onMay 23 to elect 500 deputies to the 15th NA, and nearly 4,000 toprovincial-level, almost 23,000 to district-level, and over 240,000 tocommunal-level People’s Councils./.
The withdrawal of candidates running for seats in the 15th National Assembly has been carried out in an objective, fair, and responsible manner and in line with regulations, Nguyen Thi Thanh, head of the NA Standing Committee’s Board for Deputy Affairs and member of the National Election Council (NEC), told a press conference on May 21.
Elections campaigns by 866 candidates for the election of deputies to the 15th National Assembly and nearly 449,000 others for the election of People’s Councils at all levels in 2021-2026 tenure have been completed in accordance with the law and in a safely manner despite the complicated developments of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Vietnam’s elections of deputies to the 15th National Assembly and the People’s Councils at all levels for the 2021-2026 term are of great significance, said Veeramalla Anjaiah, a senior research fellow at the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies in Jakarta and a senior journalist.
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COVID-19 prevention measures put in place at a polling station. (Photo: VNA) 
Armed force in Ho Chi Minh City cast ballot on the election day. (Photo: VNA) 
