Campaigning: responsibility and promise of candidates

According to the Law on the Election of Deputies to the National Assembly and People’s Councils, campaign activities must be carried out publicly and democratically and in line with the law. 

Such activities consist mainly of meetings with voters in the candidates’ constituencies.

Practical programs of action

Recent voters’ meetings have demonstrated that the candidates’ action plans deal with practical issues of public concern. 

At a meeting with Hanoi voters, Party leader Nguyen Phu Trong said his action plan focuses on consolidating the Party and the political system, preventing corruption and waste, building a clean, transparent state apparatus, ensuring national defense and security, protecting national sovereignty and territorial integrity, and creating a peaceful, stable environment for development. 

Mr. Trong said each National Assembly deputy should listen to the people and serve as a bridge between the people and the National Assembly, the Party, and the state. 

In his action plan Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc proposes solutions to turn Vietnam into a modern industrial nation, such as creating favorable conditions for business development, controlling public debt, settling bad debt, preventing corruption and waste, building a transparent government, ensuring national defense and security, protecting national sovereignty, and building new-style rural areas. 

Other solutions include reducing poverty and improving people’s material and spiritual lives.

The candidates pledge to, within their jurisdiction, coordinate with relevant agencies to address voters’ expressed needs and aspirations and live up to their trust and expectations. 

Bui Van Xuyen, permanent member of the National Assembly’s Law Committee, said, “It is essential that the candidates are able to represent the people’s aspirations in the National Assembly and in central and local agencies. Their action plans for a 5-year term should focus on the people’s needs and aspirations, which always involve economic development and political stability.”

Voters’ trust

Voters said they hope elected candidates will implement their action plans to improve the National Assembly’s performance and address important national issues. 

Sung Seo Ho of Si Ma Cai district, Lao Cai province, said, “We appreciate the candidates’ action plans. We hope they give more attention to ethnic minorities and create incentives for remote areas.”

Campaigning will continue from April 27 to May 21.