Legislation on Recall of Members of Parliament in The United Kingdom and Experiences for Vietnam

Abstract

Abstract: Recall of National Assembly deputies is an effective way to strengthen the relationship between National Assembly deputies and voters, ensuring that deputies identify themselves with and are accountable to the people who are represented by them; thereby helps promoting the trust of the people to the elected deputies as well as developing representative democracy. A study on the procedure of recall of members of the parliaments in the world will suggest some experiences for a similar procedure in Vietnam. For this purpose, this article presents an overview of the procedure of recall of elected representatives in parliaments around the world, and focuses on considering the Recall of MPs Act 2015 of the United Kingdom. Then, the article offers some experiences for the procedure of recall National Assembly representatives in Vietnam. Keywords: Recall of representatives, National Assembly, recall of MPs, UK Parliament.