MPS introduces nominees for the 16th National Assembly

Collecting opinions on candidates for the National Assembly deputies of voters from their workplaces is among legal regulations on the National Assembly election.

Member of the Politburo, Secretary of the Public Security Central Party Committee and Minister of Public Security Luong Tam Quang attended the meeting.

Member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Secretary of the Public Security Central Party Committee and Deputy Minister of Public Security Tran Quoc To, Senior Lieutenant General, chaired the meeting.

The meeting was attended by members of the Standing Board of the Public Security Central Party Committee and Deputy Ministers of Public Security, Secretaries and Deputy Secretaries of Party committees subordinate to the Public Security Central Party Committee, as well as heads of the Youth Affairs Board, Women’s Affairs Board and the Trade Union of the Public Security Forces.

Addressing the meeting, Deputy Minister Tran Quoc To stated that the Ministry of Public Security had been permitted to nominate three candidates to run for deputies to the 16th National Assembly. In addition, the Ministry has one full-time National Assembly deputy position working at the National Assembly’s Committee on National Defense, Security and Foreign Affairs.

Accordingly, the Standing Board of the Public Security Central Party Committee, the leadership of the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry’s leadership meeting on candidate nomination unanimously agreed on four nominees: Member of the Politburo and Minister of Public Security General Luong Tam Quang; Member of the Party Central Committee and Deputy Minister of Public Security Senior Lieutenant General Le Quoc Hung; Director of the Department of Legal Affairs and Administrative–Judicial Reforms Lieutenant General Pham Cong Nguyen; and Deputy Director of the People’s Security Academy Senior Colonel Nguyen Trung Kien, who is nominated for the full-time National Assembly deputy position at the Committee on National Defense, Security and Foreign Affairs.

The results of collecting voters’ opinions on each nominee showed, all of the four nominees received 100 % of votes.

Earlier on the same day, the Ministry of Public Security also held an open MPS leaders meeting to nominate cadidates for the 16th National Assembly. 

At the meeting, the delegates reached total consensus on the list of four cadidates from the Ministry of Public Security to run for deputies to the 16th National Assembly.