From April 20, implementing 5 delegations to supervise the election work in 18 provinces and cities

It is expected that the second monitoring will take place from April 20 to May 22, 2021 with the deployment of 5 delegations to supervise the election work in 18 provinces and cities directly under the Central Government.

Mr. Phan Van Vuong, Deputy Head of the Department of Democracy – Law, Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee gives information on the results of inspection and supervision at the Conference (Photo Quang Vinh)

On April 15, the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front held an online conference to learn from experience after testing and monitoring (phase 1) the election of deputies to the 15th National Assembly and the People’s Councils at all levels for the term 2021 – 2026.

At the Association, Mr. Phan Van Vuong, Deputy Head of Democracy – Law Committee, Central Committee of the Vietnamese Fatherland Front gave information on the results of the first inspection and supervision.

Mr. Vuong said that in this phase, the monitoring content focused on grasping and deploying the documents directing the election; the establishment and operation of organizations in charge of elections; implementation of regulations on consultation to introduce candidates to National Assembly and People’s Council.

The preparation, receipt and transfer of candidate dossiers; citizen reception, reception, handling, classification and settlement of complaints and denunciations related to the election; propaganda about the election; inspection results, election supervision are also checked and supervised issues this time.

The results show that, in addition to many positive aspects, the delegations also noted a number of limitations and problems, including a slowdown in some guiding documents on central election work. Some developed provinces have many industrial parks, industrial clusters, and manufacturing factories; migrants, workers and workers are crowded … making it difficult to review the electoral roll.

It is expected that the second monitoring will take place from April 20 to May 22, 2021 with the deployment of 5 delegations to supervise the election work in 18 provinces and cities directly under the Central Government.

According to the law on election, the organizations in charge of the election, the agencies, organizations and individuals involved in the election, the Standing Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee at all levels conducts the monitoring of the election. through participation in election organizations, organizing consultative conferences to introduce candidates, organizing voter conferences where they work, where they reside, and organize election campaigns for candidates to receive candidates. contact voters, receive and process complaints, denunciations and direct supervision at the electoral team on election day (May 23, 2021).

Checking and supervising the organization of polls of voters at the residence of the candidate is carried out from the time of starting the meeting with voters, campaigning to vote (March 20 / 2021) to April 13, 2021. Monitoring the establishment and listing of voters’ list will be done from the third round of consultation round to the election day, May 23, 2021; The preparation and listing of candidate lists are done from April 23 to May 13, before the official election day. The contents to be focused on checking and monitoring are the time of announcement, making and posting the list, ensuring the official list of listed candidates who are qualified to stand for election after the first consultation conference. 3.

The monitoring agency also considers ensuring the balance of candidates, ensuring the processing and deletion of names of candidates during the time when the National Election Commission and Election Commission at all levels have not announced the list. The candidate is prosecuted to the accused, arrested, arrested for committing the act of crime, lost the capacity of civil acts, died or seriously violated the law on election. Monitoring ensures that by the time voting begins, the person named on the official list of the announced candidates that fall in the above cases must be deleted.

The Fatherland Front will also focus on examining and supervising the settlement of complaints and denunciations about candidates, and making a list of candidates by competent agencies.

Activities of checking and supervising election propaganda and campaigning are carried out from the time of conducting and organizing the election to the end of the election, aiming to ensure the compliance with the principles, timing and form of campaigning. election for candidates, responsibility of candidates, prohibited acts in election campaign.

Check the election campaign through the voter meeting conference, through the mass media conducted from April 29 to 7 a.m. on May 22, to ensure fairness in the number of next conferences. promotion of voters, being fair in the number of responses to interviews, posting of action programs among candidates.

Monitoring the voting order, the counting of votes is carried out from 5:00 am to 9:00 pm on election day, focusing on the start and end time of voting, the observance of the principles of universal, equal, direct and voting secret votes, ensuring no cases of voting for votes, sealing ballot boxes and counting votes to ensure regulations on witnessing the counting of votes and complaints about the counting of votes, recording minutes of counting votes …

Finally, in the inspection and supervision of the receipt, processing and settlement of complaints, denunciations, petitions and feedbacks related to the election, the supervisory authority guides the implementation. This lasted from February 17 to June 30, 2021.