With 95 per cent of the vote, Hanoi People’s Committee Chairman Nguyen Duc Chung has been elected member of the municipal People’s Council for the period 2016-21.

The city’s Election Committee yesterday announced the results of the election to select National Assembly (NA) deputies and members of the People’s Councils at all levels from ward/commune, district and city.

According to the committee, almost 100 per cent of the voters cast their votes last Sunday. Through the election, voters selected 30 NA deputies and 105 members of the municipal People’s Committee.

Tran Huy Sang, director of the city’s Home Affairs Department, said 1,183 candidates were voted to the district People’s Councils and 15,728 candidates were voted to commune/ward People’s Councils.

He said another election was required for 81 election boards to select 123 more members to commune/ward People’s Councils.

Last December, Major General Nguyen Duc Chung, Hanoi’s police director, was elected chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee during the municipal People’s Council meeting.

In Vietnam, the National Assembly is the country’s legislative body.

The Constitution of Vietnam recognises the assembly as "the highest organ of State power." The assembly appoints the president (head of State), the prime minister (head of Government), the chief justice of the Supreme People’s Court of Vietnam, the head of the Supreme People’s Procuracy of Vietnam (or ’Supreme People’s Office of Supervision and Inspection’) and the 21-member government.

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