VietNamNet Bridge – Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong joined other candidates for the 13th National Assembly to meet voters in the Ba Dinh and Hoan Kiem districts of Ha Noi on Saturday as part of their election campaigns.


Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong meets voters in Hoan Kiem district (Photo: VNA)
General Secretary Trong, who is also Secretary of the Central Military Party Commission and NA Chairman, and four other candidates set out their election manifestos at the meeting.


Trong stressed the role and task of the 13th National Assembly was to institutionalise guidelines and strategies for the country's construction and development during the transitional period to socialism set by the 11th Party Congress, gradually transforming Party resolutions into reality.


Trong and the other candidates pledged to spare no efforts in their work to improve the quality and operational effectiveness of the National Assembly on four working pillars – law making, supervising, deciding the country's important issues and external relations.


Also on the same day, meetings between other NA candidates and voters were held across Ha Noi in Long Bien District and other suburban districts such as Dan Phuong, Tu Liem, Hoai Duc, Dong Anh, Me Linh and Soc Son.


Oil rig workers vote early


Almost 1,100 voters cast their votes for the 13th National Assembly and people's councils at all levels for the 2011-2016 term in the southern coastal province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau on Saturday, two weeks earlier than the rest of the nation on May 22.


The voters, who all work for the Vietsovpetro joint venture enterprise, were allowed to vote ahead of schedule because they were set to leave the mainland to work on drilling rigs and sea-going vessels.


They set sail on the same day.


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