Vietnam: Amendments to total delegates of the People’s Council of all levels applied from July 01, 2020

Le Hai

09:20, 13/12/2019

The National Assembly of Vietnam has just officially approved the Law on amendments to some Articles of the Law on Government Organization and Law on Local Government Organization of Vietnam on November 22, 2019.

Notably, the Law on amendments to some Articles of the Law on Government Organization and Law on Local Government Organization of Vietnam has amended the total delegates of the People’s Council of all levels. Specifically, total delegates of the People’s Council of a commune shall be determined according to the following rules:

- A mountainous, highland or island commune populated by two thousand inhabitants or less is entitled to elect fifteen delegates;

- A mountainous, highland or island commune populated by more than two thousand inhabitants is entitled to elect nineteen delegates;

- The mountainous, highland or island commune populated by three thousand to four thousand inhabitants is entitled to elect twenty-one delegates; as for that populated by more than four thousand inhabitants, one delegate will be additionally elected for an increase by one thousand inhabitants but the total number of delegates to be elected shall not exceed thirty;

- The commune not mentioned in Points a, b and c of this Clause and populated by five thousand inhabitants or less is entitled to elect twenty-five delegates; as for that populated by more than five thousand inhabitants, one delegate will be additionally elected for an increase by two thousand five hundred inhabitants but the total number of delegates to be elected shall not exceed thirty.

View more details at the Law on amendments to some Articles of the Law on Government Organization and Law on Local Government Organization of Vietnam, effective from July 01, 2020.

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