Top Party, State leader runs for new National Assembly deputy

Alongside Trong, four other senior officials of the Party Central Committee were also selected to run as candidates in the coming election, namely Vo Van Thuong, Politburo member and standing member of the Party Central Committee‘s Secretariat, Bui Thi Minh Hoai, member of the Secretariat, Le Minh Hung, member of the Secretariat and chief of the Party Central Committee’s Office, and Nguyen Dac Vinh, member of the Secretariat and deputy chief of the Party Central Committee’s Office.

The list of the candidates was approved on March 11 at an online conference of voters working at the Office of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee.

Participants at the conference spoke highly of the candidates’ capability, knowledge, qualification, political firmness and morality. They shared the view that the candidates satisfy all conditions and criteria for a National Assembly deputy in accordance with the law.

Vietnamese people will cast their ballots to elect 500 representatives to the 15th National Assembly for the 2021-2026 tenure on May 23.

Of the total, 207 deputies will come from centrally-run agencies, including 95 members of the Party Central Committee.