According to the AAPI statistics in the US, in the Vietnamese American community, 48% support President Trump and 36% support Mr. Joe Biden, and 16% have not decided. However, statistics in Vietnam show that up to 80% of Vietnamese support incumbent President Trump.
It can be said that the Vietnamese people’s interest in the US election is far greater than that of the local elections of the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) and the state agencies. Vietnamese people watch the US election with the sentiment thrilled not lower to the World Cup football tournament.
“Watching the US election is more nervous than preparing to accept a marriage proposal,” said Facebooker Chua Chua My, a beautiful girl in her 20s.
Fanpage Cat Linh Co be in Hanoi, also a young girl, commented:
“I jumped on Trump’s Facebook. He is on a Livestream calling on people to support him, and convincing people to vote.
When I turned to Joe Biden, the candidate racing into the White House with Trump, campaigners have urged the people to vote for him. They are making promises to voters.
These two men attack each other like never before. Viewing the two sides is also fun.
Since yesterday, friends everywhere have been texting too much because of the US election. It’s so strange.
For the rest of my life, I do not know if I have anyone persuade me to vote. But e-voting, not put into the box to count them !!! I wonder if anyone has come up with plans for the country to convince me.
The election is for the US only, but the whole world quarreled. When will our officials have such a competition?” Cat Linh commented.
Following the US election out of affection for Mr. Trump, because of the thrill of an unpredictable result, because the media and social networks continuously report, making the majority of Vietnamese people are attracted.
However, most lawyers and journalists feel a clear loss of the Vietnamese people for nearly a hundred of years in the situation of the Vietnamese election mechanism in which the ruling party introduces its candidates and decides who will be elected while the people have to make formal election to leganize it. No election campaigns under the one-party totalitarian regime.
Once there was an opinion that required open democracy within the Party for each election, however, the Party leaders almost did not need to respond or answer people’s calls.
That is why there are sarcastic nouns such as “dividing seats” to talk about the election in the Party and also the decision of the highest leadership positions of the Vietnamese state, people never have a chance to participate.
An article with a somewhat strange title – A nation of thirsty – by Dr. Vo Xuan Son which aims to express the Vietnamese people’s hunger and thirst for the right to vote when looking at America.
“Have you ever sat down to eat but had a crowd watching you eat and craving, even someone smacking or rubbing their mouth?
For decades, I have not seen that scene again. Or maybe it still happened but I did not recognize because I was too indifferent to the world around me. A few Vietnamese who lack food. Even families isolated by storms and floods have been supplied food by the philanthropists.
But today, November 4, I see that scene, all day long. I noticed, not just a bunch of people, but almost a whole nation, starving, and jubilant, gnawing at people, complaining. I see the Vietnamese people excited about the election as far as in the US. That’s right, the freedom to vote, the freedom to comment, and the freedom of expression are what this people are starving for while the American people are full.
The wish for the right to choose the leader of your country for yourself, the desire to comment freely about who will and is leading your country, hunger for the image of a leader who dares to confront the Red China, has turned tens of millions of Vietnamese into goblins who stare at foreigners’ mouths while they are enjoying their free and democratic election.
What a pity for the nation where people who are starving and thirsty,” Dr. Vo Xuan Son expressed emotion.
Journalist Truong Chau Huu Danh said immediately that he was 40 years old and has never taken part in the local elections. He wrote:
“I am nearly 40 years old, but honestly I have never been to the polls. Many of my friends also didn’t vote because they didn’t believe the results.
In fact, the list is for the people to vote, everyone is “talented and talented” alike. No matter who goes up or down, they will be champions forever, 100%. All candidates of the election are 100% good, as the rate of the excellent students even though there are children in grade 2 who are illiterate, just like the whole country is a cultural towns.
For several years now, seeing my people having interests in the US election, I feel so sad. People choose Mr. Trump because they are crazy about him, they choose Mr. Biden because they … hate Mr. Trump- not because they are crazy about Mr. Biden. Our people care about the US election, as well as the way they love or hate Trump, they are bored with the false 100% rate of the local election so their love is all over America – no matter whoever goes up, he is for America. What mind my country!
Go to bed. Mr. Biden or Mr. Trump as President, America is still great.
Like our country, whoever to rise, the country remains the same,” Journalist Truong Chau Huu Danh confided.
Lawyer Le Quoc Quan in Hanoi gives a status line summarizing some 100% election results in Vietnam that “in Vietnam, for every position, it will be only one candidate.”
Mr. Bui Van Cuong was re-elected as the secretary of Dak Lak province with 100% of the votes.
Mr. Duong Van Thai was elected as the secretary of Bac Giang province with 100% of the vote.
Mr. Hoang Trung Dung was elected as the secretary of Ha Tinh with 100% of the vote.
Mr. Vuong Dinh Hue was re-elected as the secretary of Hanoi with 100% of the votes.
Then the provinces of Ha Giang, Bac Lieu, Bac Ninh, Khanh Hoa, Dien Bien … all single candidates got 100% of votes in their respective local elections.
It must be recognized that Vietnam won the world championship in this election.
Also comparing the US to Vietnam, attorney Nguyen Danh Hue writes:
“In America, there are many active parties, but there are two parties that rule alternately: the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.
These two parties always have to compete with each other by making policies to persuade people to support them.
Parties in the US are not allowed to spend money on the state budget but have to raise money themselves to operate (fundraising must be in accordance with the law), party activities are also prohibited in the military, the police, and other public institutions. To put it simply, if you want to have a branch meeting, you will have to pay your own money and run out of time to work in a restaurant to meet.
In our country, only the communist party can exist, the establishment of other political opposition organizations will not be allowed. Compared with the US parties, our party is ten thousand times happier. The money for the ruling party’s operations comes from the state budget, party organizations are everywhere, with big and beautiful offices. Party leaders from commune and district levels have enjoyed many preferential priviledgess. If you are a member of the Central Committee, you will be entitled to special benefits such as health care, shuttle cars, business class airplanes, and if you are a member of the Politburo, you will also receive daily medical check-ups and meals, with assistants and secretaries, have a shuttle driver, have a security guard 24/24 at home and at work or when going out, be in a villa from 400 square meters to 600 square meters, when dead, they will be buried in their own place and many other incentives.
If in the US, the parties choose the candidates for the people to choose who leads the country, in Vietnam, from village leaders, the party will decide all,” lawyer Nguyen Danh Hue stated.
Thoibao.de (Translated)
