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Vietnam to go to polls on May 19

Vietnam is to go to the polls on Sunday, May the 19th, the anniversary of the birth of its late revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh.

Voters will be electing members of the 450-seat National Assembly for another five years.

The election date was announced in the official Communist Party daily Nhan Dan.

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