The Provincial Party Standing Committee held its regular meeting in April.

Also attending were comrades: Nguyen Xuan Son - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, Nguyen Van Thong - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, comrades of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee. Photo: Thanh Duy

Affirming the role and position of the Provincial People's Council

The Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee listened to the Provincial People's Council Party Delegation report on the implementation results of the Project "Improving the quality and efficiency of the Provincial People's Council's activities for the 17th term, 2016 - 2021, issued together with Resolution No. 27/2017/NQ - HDND, dated December 20, 2017 of the Provincial People's Council".

In recent times, implementing the Project, the activities of the Provincial People's Council have been increasingly innovated towards improving quality, effectiveness and efficiency.

The issuance of resolutions has timely concretized the Party's guidelines, policies and laws of the State, meeting practical requirements, creating an important driving force to promote socio-economic development, ensuring national defense and security of the province. Since the beginning of the term, the Provincial People's Council has issued 233 resolutions.

Comrade Nguyen Xuan Son - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council spoke at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

The Provincial People's Council has performed its supervisory function well through three forms: questioning and answering questions at the session, thematic supervision and explanation activities at the Provincial People's Council Standing Committee meeting. Through supervision, it has contributed to correcting and overcoming shortcomings and inadequacies and enhancing the responsibility and effectiveness of State management in all fields.

There have been many innovations in people's petition activities (voter contact; citizen reception; handling of citizens' complaints and denunciations) to better meet voters' aspirations and increase their trust.

Through these activities, the role and position of the Provincial People's Council - the local State power agency, representing the will, aspirations and mastery of the people has been more clearly affirmed.

Speaking at the meeting, Comrade Nguyen Xuan Son - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council emphasized that although in recent years, the number of part-time delegates is high, full-time delegates are low. The past was also a period with many natural disasters and epidemics.

Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee spoke at the regular April meeting of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee. Photo: Thanh Duy

Meanwhile, laws, regulations, decrees, and circulars change frequently and rapidly; some laws overlap; and the People's Council's work is divided quite a lot. However, the Project has served as a very important basis for improving the quality of the Provincial People's Council.

Besides, "with the help, leadership and direction of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, the activities of the Provincial People's Council have made a lot of progress, become more professional, effective and efficient, contributing effectively and positively to the implementation of the province's political tasks", the Chairman of the Provincial People's Council affirmed, adding: the relationships to resolve the work of the Provincial People's Council have progressed very well.

ENHANCE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE POLITICAL SYSTEM

INRESOLUTION OF PETITIONS

Concluding this content, comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Alternate member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee highly appreciated the activities of the Provincial People's Council under the leadership of the Provincial People's Council Party Delegation.

It acknowledges the innovation and improvement of the quality of the Provincial People's Council's meetings; the resolutions issued have been put into practice; the supervision work is serious, and the pursuit of issues after supervision is clearly seen.

Particularly in supervision, the questioning and answering activities at the meeting were carried out very well, choosing very good issues, attracting voters' attention and having the effect of guiding and warning the provincial authorities to take action to resolve the issue. In addition, the relationship of coordination in performing tasks was very smooth.

Comrade Nguyen Van Thong - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee spoke at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

Agreeing with the shortcomings and limitations pointed out, including the implementation of recommendations after supervision, conclusions of questioning, explanations, and recommendations of voters, the Provincial Party Secretary requested the entire political system to pay close attention, especially government agencies to actively participate in improving the effectiveness of implementing this content; at the same time, requested the Provincial People's Council to continue to monitor, closely follow, urge to resolve after detecting, deeply study and propose to resolve the problem.

Regarding the recommendations and proposals of the Provincial People's Council Party Delegation to continue promoting the role, position and contributions of the Provincial People's Council, the Provincial Party Secretary had specific conclusions.
In particular, it is agreed to consider arranging the structure of the Provincial People's Council delegates at the Provincial People's Council Office to create a source of training and fostering specialized leaders of the Provincial People's Council committees; continue to pay attention to the work of planning, training, fostering, and rotating officials of the Provincial People's Council office; create conditions for specialized officials and civil servants of the Provincial People's Council office to be rotated for training, fostering, practicing, and maturing; invite the Provincial People's Council committees to attend relevant block meetings such as the Internal Affairs Bloc meeting, press meeting;...

Comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Alternate member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee delivered a concluding speech on the content of the Project "Improving the quality and efficiency of the activities of the Provincial People's Council, term XVII, 2016 - 2021, issued together with Resolution No. 27/2017/NQ - HDND, dated December 20, 2017 of the Provincial People's Council". Photo: Thanh Duy

Also at the working session, the Provincial Party Standing Committee gave opinions on many other important contents, including discussing the project to build a church, stele and memorial to martyrs in Nghe An province; the implementation of the policy of arranging regular police officers to take on the positions of commune police in the province;...