Election of Deputies to 13th SPA

Election of Deputies to 13th SPA

The election of deputies to the Supreme People’s Assembly (SPA) was held successfully in the DPR Korea on March 9 last.
All the voters at Paektusan Constituency No 111 for the election of deputies to the 13th Supreme People’s Assembly voted for the respected Marshal Kim Jong Un.
It is an expression of the service personnel and people’s boundless reverence and absolute trust in Marshal Kim Jong Un.
It is also a demonstration of the single-minded unity in which the leader and all the service personnel and people are firmly rallied with the single idea and will and linked by the close bonds of kinship.
99.97% of all voters took part in the election of deputies to the 13th SPA and voted for the candidates for deputies registered at relevant constituencies.
Among the SPA deputies are anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters who participated in the anti-Japanese armed struggle and veterans of the Fatherland Liberation War.
17.2% of the deputies are army men, 12.7% workers, 11.1% coop farmers and 16.3% women.
Also among the deputies are officials of the Party and power bodies and other organs and those of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan and organizations under it.
Winners of Order of Kim Il Sung, Kim Il Sung Prize, Order of Kim Jong Il and Kim Jong Il Prize account for 30.2 %, recipients of the titles of the DPRK hero and Labor hero 14.6 % and recipients of academic degrees and titles including professors and doctors and scientists, technicians and experts 91.7%.
3.9% of the deputies are aged below 39, 66.9% 40-50, 29.2% above 60 and 94.2% of them graduated from universities or received similar level of education.
The Credential Committee of Deputies confirmed that all the elected deputies have qualifications as SPA deputies because the election of the deputies to the 13th SPA was strictly held according to the DPRK Socialist Construction and the Rules on the Elections of Deputies to the People’s Assemblies at all levels and the candidates for deputies to the SPA registered at relevant constituencies were voted for by all electors.
According to it the first Session of the 13th SPA of the DPRK was held at Mansudae Assembly Hall in Pyongyang on April 9.
The session reelected Marshal Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and supreme commander of the Korean People’s Army (KPA), first chairman of the National Defense Commission of the DPRK, reflecting the unanimous will and desire of all service personnel and people of the country.
It is an expression of the absolute support and trust in him and a historic event that demonstrated the unchangeable will of the entire army and people to hold only him in high esteem.