At the current session, the legislature is deliberating amendments to eight out of 120 articles of the 2013 Constitution, a step toward streamlining administrative structures. If passed, this will eliminate district-level administrative units and reduce the number of provincial-level units to 34.
State President Luong Cuong, National Assembly (NA) Chairman Tran Thanh Man, Party and State leaders as well as NA deputies on October 23 visited an exhibition featuring the “Nhat bao Quoc hoi (National Assembly Daily) with the first general election (in 1946).
National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan has written an article, recalling the NA’s achievements over the last 72 years and outlined tasks that need to be done in 2018.
The successful first general election on January 6, 1946 went down in history of Vietnam’s revolution as a turning point, featuring the country as an independent state and a people’s democratic state.
Top Vietnamese leaders paid tribute to late President Ho Chi Minh at his mausoleum in Hanoi on January 6 on the occasion of celebrating 70 years of Vietnam’s first General Election Day.
An arts performance was co-organised by the NA Office and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism at the Hanoi Opera House on January 5 to celebrate the 70 years of the first General Election.
Southerners who experienced the first general election in Vietnam seven decades ago still have vivid memories of the historic event, which took place amid the enemy’s fierce sabotage in the south.
A special television programme was broadcast live on Vietnam Television on January 4, recalling the nation’s glorious history and looking back the development of the NA over the last seven decades.
