{"id":1162940,"date":"2026-02-15T10:27:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T05:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.app.com.pk\/national\/vietnams-national-election-council-announces-864-candidates-for-new-parliamentary-term\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T10:27:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T05:27:20","slug":"vietnams-national-election-council-announces-864-candidates-for-new-parliamentary-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/2026\/02\/15\/vietnams-national-election-council-announces-864-candidates-for-new-parliamentary-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam&#8217;s National Election Council announces 864 candidates for new parliamentary term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HANOI, Feb. 15 (Xinhua\/APP): Vietnam&#8217;s National Election Council on Sunday announced a list of 864 candidates running for the tenure of the 16th National Assembly (NA), the Vietnam News Agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>The candidates will be voted on in 182 electoral constituencies nationwide to select 500 deputies for the 2026-2031 term.<\/p>\n<p>Following the announcement, the candidates will begin their election campaigns through meetings and interactions with voters or via mass media to present their action programs, local daily VnExpress reported.<\/p>\n<p>The election of deputies to the 16th NA and members of People&#8217;s Councils at all levels for the 2026-2031 term will be held on Sunday, March 15, 2026, according to the report.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vietnam&#8217;s National Election Council announces 864 candidates for new parliamentary term<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1162988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","_speechable_audio":"","_speechable_word_timings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[754,8916],"post_template":[],"top_category":[],"class_list":["post-1162940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global","tag-national-assembly-2","tag-national-election-council","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1162940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1162988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162940"},{"taxonomy":"post_template","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_template?post=1162940"},{"taxonomy":"top_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/top_category?post=1162940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}