Parliamentary election in Vietnam 2016
The nationwide elections for the 2016 National Assembly took place in Vietnam on May 22, 2016 and, in the eyes of election observers, only partially met democratic standards due to the way the Communist Party (CPV) steers the election process .
Starting position
The Vietnamese National Assembly ( Vietnamese Quốc hội ) is a unicameral parliament based in Hanoi , whose members have to prevail against their competitors in territorially divided constituencies in a maximum of two rounds. The simple majority decides in the second round . 18% of the candidates must be from an ethnic minority and 35% must be female.
This year, the 870 members of the Communist Party were compared to 97 politicians without a party on the candidate lists . All applicants had to be approved by the Fatherland Front , which is linked to the KPV. Almost 70 million Vietnamese were eligible to vote. They not only decided on the composition of the parliament, but also chose the functionaries for the city and community levels in a kind of local election .
Between March 27, 2016 and April 21, 2016, the candidates met the electorate in meetings. Since there were several applicants per mandate, these meetings were with an election campaign z. B. comparable in German-speaking countries.
Result
As the only legal party according to the Vietnamese constitution, the KPV, as expected, won the overwhelming majority of the seats in parliament with 473 seats. The remaining 4% of the seats went to politicians without party affiliation. In the previous election in 2011, the non-party members had won around 10% of the seats.
The National Electoral Commission consisted of three representatives from the Patriotic Front , four ministers from the incumbent government and four representatives from the National Assembly elected in 2011. The commission gave the voter turnout at 99.35%.
On July 21, 2016, Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân was re-elected as President of the National Assembly. The Vietnamese constitution of 1992 prescribes the year 2021 for the next parliamentary election.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Günter Giesenfeld : Elections to Parliament 2016: A new government, a new parliament . Freundesgesellschaft Vietnam eV Retrieved on November 4, 2016: "Vietnam Kurier 1/2016"
- ↑ Viet Nam (Quoc-Hoi): Elections in 2016 . Inter-Parliamentary Union . Retrieved November 2, 2016.
- ↑ Viet Nam (Quoc-Hoi): Elections in 2011 . Inter-Parliamentary Union . Retrieved November 2, 2016.