4 self-nominated candidates entered the list of candidates for the Ho Chi Minh City People's Council

Among 175 people qualified to run for City People's Council delegatesHo Chi Minh2016-2021 term, there are 4 self-nominated candidates.

Morning of April 17, consultative conferencethe third timeVietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Ho Chi Minh City organized, agreed to establish a list of 175 qualified candidates for the City People's Council for the 2016-2021 term to hand over to the City Election Committee and the National Election Council for consideration and inclusion in the official candidate list.

Among them, there are 4 self-nominated candidates (out of a total of 25 people), including Mr. Tran Quang Thang - Director of the City Institute of Economic Management.Ho Chi Minh; Ms. Nguyen Thi Huyen - worker, Head of the food processing factory of Cau Tre Company; Lawyer Ha Hai - Head of Ha Hai and Associates Law Office; Mr. Le Nguyen Minh Quang - General Director of Bachy Soletanche Vietnam Company.

Delegates voted to approve the official list of candidates to elect City People's Council delegates.Ho Chi MinhPhoto: TS

Among the 21 self-nominated candidates who did not make it onto the official election list, there are some well-known people such as actor and businessman Le Dinh Hung (commonly known as Hung Cuu Long), freelance singer Lam Ngan Mai...

In terms of composition, there are 23 non-Party members, 75 female candidates, 32 people under 35 years old, 9 ethnic people, and 11 representatives of religions.

At the conference, a delegate suggested considering the case of Mr. Nguyen Cu - Secretary of Hoc Mon District Party Committee to run for the City People's Council for the 2016-2021 term, because there was public opinion that Mr. Cu caused disunity in the workplace. However,The representative of the City Party Committee's Inspection Committee explained that the case of Mr. Nguyen Cu, after verification, only had issues of lack of high unity in leadership, direction, and management, including issues of land management in the locality. As for the issue of causing disunity in the workplace, there was no basis.

Previously, Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of the CityHo Chi MinhVu Thanh LuuThe preliminary list of candidates for the City People's Council includes 203 candidates and 25 self-nominated candidates.

After the second round of consultation, five people withdrew from the preliminary list (one person was introduced by an agency, organization, or unit and four people ran for office themselves).As of April 16, five more people had withdrawn from the preliminary list. The total number of candidates remaining on the preliminary list is 193.

According to VNE