Top Vietnamese legislator chairs National Election Council’s fifth session

Upon addressing the meeting, Hue said that along with efforts to successfully organize the NA’s 11th session – the last of the 14th tenure, preparations for the elections of deputies to the 15th legislature and all-level People’s Councils in the 2021-2026 tenure have been actively made since the NEC’s 4th session.

Offices in charge of the elections have been set up, documents guiding the elections issued, personnel work preparations stepped up, and dissemination works intensified, he said.

As the remaining workload remains huge, the council’s leader suggested the NEC work harder to ensure democracy and law abidance during the organization of elections so that really competent lawmakers who can represent people’s right to mastery are elected.

At the session, the council listened to reports on the implementation of tasks since its 4th session, the establishment and deployment of supervision groups, the preparations for the third consultative conference, and adjustments to the assignment of tasks to NEC members.

During the course of the meeting, the council adopted a resolution on the assignment of tasks to its members.

The responsibility of the NEC is to direct and guide the organization of elections of deputies to the 15th National Assembly and People's Councils at all levels for the 2021 to 2026 term, in accordance with the law, thus making it to be safe, economical and democratic manner in order to elect those who are truly competent and worthy of the people's confidence, thus making May 23 election really become a festival of the entire population, Hue added.