Illustrative photo (Source: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – A workshop on opportunities, challenges and solutions to promote the participation of people with disabilities in politics was held in Hanoi on April 15. Co-organised by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Vietnam and the Centre for Education Promotion and Empowerment of Women ( CEPEW ), the event aimed at enhancing the right to political engagement of people with disabilities in Vietnam where is home to more than 6 million disabled persons. Speaking at the workshop, Diana Torres , UNDP Assistant Resident Representative in Vietnam, said there will be a political gap between non-disabled and disabled people unless the community joins hands to promote equality and empower people with disabilities on political platforms. Without their voices in agencies under the National Assembly and People’s Councils, the people with disabilities will find it difficult to really integrate into society, she added. Le Ngoc Hoan, a member of the Blind Association of Lang Son province, who is a self-nominated candidate for the election of deputies to the 15th National Assembly, said people with disabilities need representative voices in the law-making body so that their legitimate aspirations and needs will be heard. According to a quick assessment of the group’s readiness for political involvement as candidates in the elections of deputies to the National Assembly and all-level People’s Councils, 92 percent of people surveyed hoped to have disabled deputies and 63 percent said they are ready for self-nomination to the elections in the next five years. The assessment, jointly conducted by the UNDP Vietnam and the Norwegian Embassy in Vietnam, was released as part of the workshop. It showed three challenges facing the group in elections – feeling unconfident in the possibility of success, lacking knowledge on self-nomination and campaigning, and distrusting that the community will vote for people …
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Conference held for first-time National Assembly candidates
Speaking at the conference, Politburo member and NA Permanent Vice Chairman Tran Thanh Man affirmed that the effectiveness and efficiency of the NA's activities need the important contribution of full-time NA deputies. The NA Permanent Vice Chairman who is also Vice Chairman of the National Election Council added the selection of the quality and number of full-time NA deputies is the responsibility of the NA's Party Committee and the NA Standing Committee, and at the same time it also depends on the qualifications, capabilities and strengths of each candidate. At the conference, the candidates listened to basic knowledge about the NA; the position and role of full-time NA deputies at Central level; legal processes on elections and campaigning; election campaign skills; experience, skills in formulating and presenting action plans; experience and skills in contact with voters, etc. The conference will last until April 16. …
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NA Vice Chairman examines election preparations in Yen Bai
Hai, who is also Chairman of the NA’s Finance and Budget Committee and a member of the National Election Council (NEC), asked the province to continue its communications efforts, particularly in remote and ethnic minority-inhabited areas. Priority should be given to increasing IT application and training personnel for the task, intensifying inspections, and encouraging people to vote, he added. Vice Secretary of the provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Tran Huy Tuan said that as of April 12, Yen Bai had organised a total of 1,306 conferences to collect feedback from constituents on candidates for the elections in their constituencies. Also head of the provincial election committee, Tuan said Yen Bai has nearly 600,000 constituents. The province has held its third political consultative conference, agreeing on a list of eight and 97 candidates for election as deputies to the 15th NA and members of all-level People’s Councils for 2021-2026, respectively. Source: VNA …
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