Millions of Hong Kong voters voted 452 district councilors today amid tight security.

The people of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region have been coming to the polls from this morning to elect 452 seats for 18 district councilors, who will be in charge of everyday life areas such as transportation, services. garbage collection ...

This is an election held every 4 years, an opportunity for Hong Kong voters to directly elect their representatives in county councils. This year, 1,090 candidates ran for office.

The polling stations will be open from 7:30 am to 10:30 pm (6:30 am - 21:30 pm Hanoi time), the results are expected to be released a few hours after the election ends. By mid-afternoon, 1.52 million voters out of 4.13 million registered to vote, compared with 1.47 million who voted in 2015.

County councilors primarily serve as advisors for the Hong Kong government, without much authority to discuss policies or draft budgets for the city's 18 counties. However, the election still played an important role as the district councilors occupied 117 seats in the special district leadership election committee of 1,200 members. In addition, 5 of the 70 seats of the Hong Kong Legislative Assembly are also reserved for county councilors.

A large number of Hong Kong police are deployed at polling stations for security, in the context of the special zone has witnessed a series of stressful days due to violent clashes between protesters and police.

Today's election was peaceful, with many protesting protesters calling for city residents to vote and without obstructing actions, which could cause the government to postpone elections.

Hong Kong saw protests erupting in June, initially to initially protest against the extradition bill that allows criminals to be brought into the jurisdiction areas where the Special Zone has not signed an extradition treaty, including Chinese mainland. The Hong Kong government announced the withdrawal of the bill, but protesters still took to the streets to make other requests, including investigating the use of force by police and resignation of Chief Executive Carrie Lam.

Violent clashes broke out last week, when thousands of protesters gathered in Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) from November 17 to confront the police. After a few days of entrenching, the majority of the protesters left PolyU, of which about 1,100 were arrested.