Africa Map

African Press Agency

African Press Agency Logo
   

 Home
 Country Profile
 Useful Links
 Contact us

Home

N Korea/ParliamentBack
[Published: Sunday March 10 2019]
North Koreans vote for new parliament
PYONGYANG 10 Mar (ANA) - Millions of North Koreans are going to the polls on Sunday to elect roughly 700 members of the national legislature.
The elections, held every five years, are for the entire Supreme People's Assembly, its rubber-stamp legislature.
There is only a single candidate registered for each constituency and, under North Korean law, citizens can vote from the age of 17. The elections will replace those picked in the first parliamentary elections under the current leader in March 2014.
The candidates include workers, farmers, intellectuals and soldiers striving to uphold leader Kim's ideology and leadership, and backing his push for national development, Yonhap news agency reported citing North's state media.
Voting is generally regarded as a duty and responsibility in North Korea. After the last election in 2014, North Korean state media reported a 99.97 percent voter turnout, and called it "an expression of the absolute support and trust of all voters in the DPRK government".
"The election will strikingly manifest the fixed will of our people to firmly trust and uphold to the last Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un despite storm and stress," the ruling party's official daily said in a commentary on Sunday.
"All the people have to fully display through the election the invincibility and might of the DPRK advancing by dint of the single-minded unity," it said, using the acronym for the country's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Voting began at around 9am local time (midnight GMT) depending on the location and continues until late evening.
Voters show election officials their ID cards to receive their ballot, which they cast in a private booth. If they approve, they simply put the ballot in the box. If they do not approve, they cross the name out and put it in the same box but in practice that is unheard of.(ANA)
FA/ANA/10 March 2019--------
 

North South News website

Advertise banner

News icon EU/Kenya/Pesticides
News icon UN/Israel/Gza
News icon US/Israel/Gaza
News icon Pakistan/ISI Interference
News icon EU/North Africa
News icon Senegal/Elections
News icon Israel/Gaza Massacre
News icon Russia/NATO
News icon Gaza/Victims Number
News icon Kenya/Uganda

AFRICAN PRESS AGENCY Copyright © 2005 - 2007