On December 15, the election of village, hamlet and neighborhood chiefs for the 2025-2027 term took place simultaneously in 1,452 villages, hamlets and neighborhoods. At this point, all preparations are in the final stages. Voters across the province expect the election to be a great success, choosing capable and enthusiastic people who are worthy of being the people's support, building villages, hamlets and neighborhoods to develop more and more.
Bustling towards the big festival
Trang An Ward (Dong Trieu City) these days is bustling with the atmosphere leading up to the election day of the ward chief for the 2025-2027 term. Work such as organizing consultation steps, repairing the cultural house, preparing facilities and voting locations is being actively carried out. Loudspeakers in the ward continuously broadcast propaganda about the election day.
Comrade Nguyen Thi Thu Trang, Vice Chairwoman of the Ward People's Committee, Deputy Head of the Election Steering Committee of Trang An Ward, said: Implementing the direction of the province and city, Trang An Ward has deployed the election work on schedule, ensuring seriousness, compliance with procedures and legal regulations. The Ward focuses on directing and deploying guiding documents on the election of ward heads to the residential areas. The Ward Election Steering Committee has decided to establish 7 election teams, each team has 7 people. Along with that, it directs the residential areas to deploy personnel procedures and consultations in accordance with regulations.
Despite the large amount of work but with careful preparation, all work for the election has so far exceeded the set schedule. Currently, 7 wards of the ward have completed step 4 of the personnel process. Through the negotiation steps, 100% of the personnel introduced for re-election and new election have achieved high consensus.
Ms. Bui Thi Nhan, Head of the Front Work Committee of Lower Area 2, said: Through the first consultation conference, the Front Work Committee of Lower Area 2 introduced a qualified candidate for the position of Head of the Area for the 2025-2027 term, Mr. Do Minh Vinh, born in 1970. In general, the candidate for the position of Head of the Area is a person who meets the standards and conditions to undertake the work of the neighborhood. Through the second consultation, Mr. Do Minh Vinh received the absolute consensus of the representatives of the households.
After consultation, from now until the election, the neighborhood will shift its focus to festive decorations, posting voter lists, and promoting and mobilizing voters to participate in the election on December 15, creating a festival for all people.
Meanwhile, in Hong Ha ward - the central and densely populated ward of Ha Long city, election preparations are on schedule. The ward's neighborhoods are enthusiastically organizing a summary of the area's activities for the 2022-2025 term.
Mr. Nham Sy Thuoc, Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of Hong Ha Ward, said: In this election, voters representing households in the ward participated in voting at 9 polling stations. The ward established an Election Steering Committee; established 9 election teams, each team had 7 members. Through the assessment of the Ward's Ward Head Election Steering Committee, up to now, the preparation work has been carried out seriously, in accordance with the process; ensuring the principle of Party leadership, State management, ensuring the people's right to know, participate in giving opinions and decisions. The neighborhoods have completed step 4 of consultation, most of the candidates trusted by the people to be introduced for re-election and new elections are enthusiastic and dedicated in activities in the neighborhoods. Currently, the neighborhoods are posting the list of candidates, reviewing and posting the list of voters; preparing facilities and ballot boxes. Each polling station will organize the hanging of banners, slogans and flags to create a bustling atmosphere.
Preparations for the final stage of the national festival in communes, wards and towns in the province were all urgently carried out. In many localities, people participated in cleaning the environment; decorating the cultural house grounds to be spacious and clean, creating favorable conditions for voters in the neighborhood to vote for the new village, hamlet and ward chiefs.
Voters across the province are eagerly waiting for December 15, 2024 to go to the polls, exercise their right to be masters, and they always expect the elected village, hamlet, and neighborhood chief for the 2025-2027 term to use all their abilities and responsibilities to serve the people, so that the material and spiritual life of the people is constantly improved.
Ms. Ta Thi Van (Zone 4, Hong Ha Ward, Ha Long City) said: I and the voters here are ready to wait until the election day to exercise our civil rights. I will choose a representative for the zone with the criteria of having talent, virtue, and prestige with the locality to be worthy of being the support of the people, contributing to the development of the neighborhood.
Implementation work ensures progress
The election of village, hamlet and ward chiefs is an important event to promote the people's mastery, improve the effectiveness of building and implementing grassroots democracy regulations, strengthen solidarity and unity in the community; at the same time, select and elect exemplary people with qualities, capacity and prestige, representing the community to carry out self-management work in the area. To prepare for this important political event, all levels from the province to the grassroots have proactively and actively directed and implemented the election work to basically ensure the content, steps and procedures and complete it ahead of schedule according to the regulations and instructions of the Central and the province.
Specifically, the Standing Committee of the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee issued a plan to implement and guide the election of village, hamlet and neighborhood heads for the 2025-2027 term; organized online training for front officials at all levels on professional skills; guided the district and commune level Fatherland Front Committees to organize conferences of the Front Work Committee to plan the list of candidates and organize the election process; coordinated with member organizations to carry out propaganda and mobilize union members, association members and people to actively participate in the election, creating a joyful and exciting atmosphere, consensus and trust of the people; grasped the situation of residential areas and coordinated inspections; supervised the election process.
The Department of Home Affairs also issued guidelines for the implementation of the election of village, hamlet and quarter chiefs for the 2025-2027 term; proactively coordinated with the People's Committees of districts, towns and cities to conduct training and provide guidance on election work to each commune level and those directly participating in the election work; organized survey teams to grasp the situation in localities, focusing on communes and wards after the rearrangement of administrative units; villages, hamlets and quarters with specific factors in terms of population, area and terrain. In addition, the Department of Home Affairs established a Zalo group "Village Chief Election Work" connecting the specialized departments of the Department of Home Affairs and the Departments of Home Affairs of 13 localities to promptly exchange, grasp the situation, and provide timely and proper guidance on election work.
13 districts, towns, cities and 171 communes, wards and townships have issued plans; organized conferences to disseminate, disseminate and implement the election of village, hamlet and residential area chiefs. Commune level has established Steering Committees and support teams to direct and implement the election work in the area. It is expected that all localities will complete the establishment of election teams before December 5. Localities continue to provide training and guidance on election procedures for members of election teams.
Comrade Bui Thi Binh, Director of the Department of Home Affairs, said: Up to now, 100% of the People's Committees at the commune level have issued decisions to organize the election of Village Chiefs before the prescribed time, in which some localities completed early such as Dong Trieu, Ha Long, Co To. The issuance of the decision to organize the election has ensured the content according to regulations, informed voters about the election day, time of the election so that voters can actively participate in full numbers. Many localities also issued early decisions to establish election teams to ensure compliance with regulations on the number and composition of participants. Currently, communes, wards and towns are reviewing and making voter lists; posting voter lists in village, hamlet, residential area and public places.
Regarding personnel work, closely following the regulations and instructions of the Central and the province, localities have directed the commune level to organize meetings and listen to the Party cell committees report on the expected personnel to be introduced as candidates for village, hamlet, and neighborhood chiefs, ensuring effective implementation of the model "People trust - Party nominates", maintaining the goal of 100% of Party cell secretaries also being village, hamlet, and neighborhood chiefs.
Based on the expected personnel, the province carries out the personnel process for village, hamlet, and neighborhood heads in 6 steps, including: Preparing personnel for the new term's Party cell; organizing Party cell activities; holding conferences of the Front Work Committee, consulting with household representatives; reporting to the Party Committee; and organizing elections. Up to this point, villages, hamlets, and neighborhoods have basically completed steps 3 and 4.
To ensure proactive and thorough preparation for election day, the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee and the Department of Home Affairs have coordinated and agreed to guide villages, hamlets, and neighborhoods to collect opinions from household representatives on the form of election by show of hands or secret ballot. Along with that, the propaganda, review, and preparation of material conditions for the election have also been seriously implemented by localities, ready for the election day of village, hamlet, and neighborhood chiefs.
It can be said that villages and neighborhoods are important areas to promote democracy and forms of community self-management, build cultural life in residential areas, and at the same time implement the Party's guidelines and policies, the State's policies and laws... With careful preparation and organization by localities, the election of village, hamlet, and neighborhood chiefs in Quang Ninh will certainly be successful, contributing to the successful organization of the Party cell congress for the 2025-2027 term, completing the goal of 100% of Party cell secretaries being also village, hamlet, and neighborhood chiefs.
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