VOTERS in Vietnam cast their ballots to select a new National Assembly today, two months after the country’s Communist Party re-elected To Lam to the top political post.Nearly 79 million voters across the country are eligible to pick 500 representatives from 864 candidates to the National Assembly.The election follows the Communist Party’s national congress in January, a political event held every five years that sets the country’s leadership lineup and policy priorities.

VOTERS in Vietnam cast their ballots to select a new National Assembly today, two months after the country’s Communist Party re-elected To Lam to the top political post.

Nearly 79 million voters across the country are eligible to pick 500 representatives from 864 candidates to the National Assembly.

The election follows the Communist Party’s national congress in January, a political event held every five years that sets the country’s leadership lineup and policy priorities.

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