Voters from Ta Tong commune go to polling station (Photo: vov.vn)
The three communes have 32 polling stations with 6,095 voters, who are mainly of the Mong, La Hu and Ha Nhi ethnic groups.
In Ta Ba commune, from dawn, ethnic minority voters donned their traditional costumes and together went to polling stations. The colourful clothes of the La Hu and Ha Nhi ethnic minority groups brightened up the scene in the border region.
At polling station No 4 in Ta Ba commune, voters lined up for their turn immediately after the flag-saluting ceremony at 7 am.
Ta Ba is a mountainous commune in the border district of Muong Te. In the election, the commune has 1,800 voters casting their votes at eight polling stations.
Along with Ta Ba, 4,000 voters in the communes of Mu Ca and Ta Tong also went to vote early on May 15th.
Dao Van Khanh, Chairman of the Muong Te District’s People’s Council and Standing Vice Chairman of the Election Committee, said that at 32 early polling stations in the district, most people gathered in the morning to exercise their right of citizenship.
Additional voting boxes were also brought to sparsely-populated areas for voters’ convenience.
According to initial statistics from the Muong Te District’s Election Committee, in the morning of May 15th, more than 80 percent of voters casted their votes, with order and security ensured at all polling stations.
"We will vote for those who have the capacity to meet the expectations of the people. We expect that the elected deputies will communicate and solve water shortages, a pressing problem of our hamlet today. The hamlet has 65 households but has only one water tank. We hope the hamlet will be soon be supported with pipeline and tank to carry water from a stream to supply water for the local people,” a voter from Mu Ca commune said./.