VietNamNet Bridge – National Assembly (NA) Chair Nguyen Phu Trong on January 21 issued a resolution to announce the day of NA election on May 22 and set up the NA Election Council.


The council will be in charge of organizing the election of the 13th tenure of the NA and the election of the People’s Council at all levels.

 

The council has 21 members, led by NA Chair Nguyen Phu Trong. The four vice chairs are NA Vice Chair Tong Thi Phong, Deputy PM Nguyen Sinh Hung, Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan and the Vietnam Fatherland Front Chair Huynh Dam.

 

The 16 members comprise the Ministers of Defense, Public Security and the representatives of some social organizations and associations.

 

The assistant agencies for the NA Election Council will be also set up. National Assembly Vice Chair Uong Chu Luu will be the leader of the sub-committee on election complaints. NA Vice Chair Nguyen Duc Kien will lead the sub-committee for election PR and NA Vice Chair Huynh Ngoc Son will head the sub-committee on election security.

 

This will be the first time people will be casting their votes for the NA and People’s Councils at all levels on the same day.

 

The Constitution of Vietnam recognizes the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam as "the highest organ of state power." The National Assembly, a 493-member unicameral body elected to a five-year term, meets twice a year. The assembly appoints the President, the Prime Minister, the Chief Justice of the Supreme People's Court of Vietnam, the Head of the Supreme People's Procuracy of Vietnam, and the 21-member Cabinet.

 

The National Assembly is the highest government organization and the highest-level representative body of the people. It has the power to draw up, adopt, and amend the constitution and to make and amend laws. It also has the responsibility to legislate and implement state plans and budgets. Through its constitution-making powers it defines its own role and the roles of the Vietnamese State President, the Vietnamese Government, the local people's councils and people's committees, the Supreme People's Court, and the Supreme People's Procuracy. The assembly can elect and remove members of the Council of Ministers, the chief justice of the Supreme People's Court, and the procurator general of the People's Supreme Organ of Control. Finally, it has the power to initiate or conclude wars and to assume other duties and powers it deems necessary. The term of each session of the National Assembly is five years, and meetings are convened twice a year, or more frequently if called for by the Council of State.

 

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