Why Ms. Nguyet Huong was not confirmed as a National Assembly delegate?

According to the law, Vietnamese citizens have only one nationality, Vietnamese, but Ms. Nguyen Thi Nguyet Huong has a second nationality, the Republic of Malta.

On July 17, answering a reporter's question about why the National Election Council did not recognize Ms. Nguyen Thi Nguyet Huong as a National Assembly delegate, Chief of Office of the National Election Council Nguyen Hanh Phuc said that Ms. Nguyet Huong violated Article 4 of the Law on Vietnamese Nationality.

The Constitution stipulates that “Citizens of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam are people with Vietnamese nationality”, and in Article 4, the Law on Vietnamese Nationality stipulates the principle of nationality, stating that “The Socialist Republic of Vietnam recognizes Vietnamese citizens as having only one nationality, Vietnamese nationality, except in cases where this Law provides otherwise”.

“Currently, Ms. Nguyen Thi Nguyet Huong is a Vietnamese citizen, but she has also registered for another foreign nationality. Having two nationalities is a violation of the above regulations,” Mr. Phuc said, adding that Ms. Nguyet Huong has a second nationality, the Republic of Malta.

Mr. Phuc added that the National Election Council only discovered Ms. Nguyen Thi Nguyet Huong's violations after the seventh session on July 15, so it had to urgently hold the eighth session on the afternoon of July 17 to consider and vote on her qualifications as a delegate to the 14th National Assembly.

Apart from the above reason why Ms. Nguyen Thi Nguyet Huong was not confirmed as a delegate of the 14th National Assembly, the representative of the National Election Council has not provided any other information.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Nguyet Huong in a speech at the 13th National Assembly. Photo: NA

On the afternoon of July 17, 100% of the members of the National Election Council agreed not to confirm the status of a delegate to the 14th National Assembly for Ms. Nguyen Thi Nguyet Huong because she did not meet the standards of a delegate to the 14th National Assembly and the individual submitted a withdrawal request.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Nguyet Huong was born in 1970, from Thanh Loi commune (Vu Ban, Nam Dinh), has a BA in Language, BA in English, and a MA in Business Administration. She was a delegate of the Hanoi People's Council for the 12th and 13th terms; and a delegate of the National Assembly for the 12th and 13th terms.

Currently, Ms. Nguyet Huong is Chairwoman of the Board of Directors of TNG Holdings Vietnam Investment Joint Stock Company; Member of the Economic Committee of the National Assembly; Member of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front; Chairwoman of the Hanoi Association of Industry and Commerce; Vice Chairwoman of the Hanoi Association for Liaison with Overseas Vietnamese; Member of the Executive Committee of the Vietnam Association of Women Entrepreneurs.

According to VNE