ALL VOTERS MAY GIVE OPINIONS ON THE ADJUSTMENT OF BOUNDARIES
On April 16, 2018, the Government issues the Decree No. 54/2018/ND-CP on guiding the collection of voters’ opinions on the establishment, dissolution, merger, separation and adjustment of boundaries, of administrative units.
According to this Decree, all voters in a commune-level administrative unit who are directly affected by the establishment, dissolution, merger, separation or adjustment of boundaries, of such administrative unit may be named in the list of voters and distributed voter opinion polls.
Each voter may write his/her name on the list of voters in the locality where he/she registers his/her permanent residence; the list of voters shall be posted up for 30 days until the date of organizing the distribution of voter opinion polls.
Every voter has the right to express his/her agreement or disagreement in the poll; voter shall write and sign in the poll himself/herself and may not ask another to do so for him/her, except for the case a voter is illiterate or does not speak Vietnamese or is disabled.
This Decree takes effect on the signing date.
