Coordination between the Provincial People's Committee and the Provincial Fatherland Front: Clear work, clear responsibilities

Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung and Chairwoman of the Provincial Fatherland Front Vo Thi Minh Sinh signed the Coordination Regulations for the period 2022 - 2026. Photo: Thanh Duy

Many vivid and practical results

Over the past 5 years, the Provincial People's Committee and the Provincial Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee have coordinated to implement the signed Regulations, including many new activities that have been coordinated and implemented with positive results. Accordingly, the Standing Committee of the Provincial Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee has contributed comments on more than 223 draft documents proposed by the Provincial People's Committee and provincial departments, branches and sectors; sent representatives to attend fully and have many valuable comments, especially on resolutions on mechanisms and policies.

From 2017 to present, the Provincial Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee and the Provincial People's Committee have coordinated to direct and guide localities to organize dialogue conferences between leaders of Party committees, district and commune authorities with the People. In 5 years, the district and grassroots levels have organized 140 district-level dialogue conferences and 3,593 commune-level dialogue conferences. In particular, the Standing Committee of the Provincial Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee has coordinated with specialized agencies of the Provincial People's Committee to focus on thematic dialogues, such as: coordinating with the Provincial Labor Federation and the Department of Education and Training to organize dialogues on policies and regimes for preschool teachers, primary school teachers, secondary school teachers, especially in remote areas, border areas, and islands.

This is a new feature in the activities of the political system in Nghe An to strengthen dialogue with the People from the grassroots level; thereby achieving many positive results, creating good effects among the People; at the same time helping the Party Committee, the government, the Vietnam Fatherland Front and organizations, and sectors grasp the legitimate thoughts and aspirations of the People and workers, promptly advising and proposing amendments to a number of policies and guidelines in accordance with reality.

In particular, the two sides have had many timely coordination activities, bringing very good results and profound meanings, such as: Mobilizing organizations and individuals to contribute to help people overcome difficulties caused by natural disasters and floods. Up to now, the whole province has received contributions from agencies, units, organizations, businesses and individuals with a total amount of money and goods worth over 246.65 billion VND for the work of preventing and fighting the Covid-19 epidemic. The Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of the province also chaired and coordinated with the Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs to launch a special campaign to celebrate the 130th birthday of President Ho Chi Minh (May 19, 1890 - May 19, 2020), completing 2,050 houses to support poor households.

Currently, the interactive system between the government and the people has been deployed in Hoang Mai town on the website and application platform Hoangmaitoiyeu.

However, the Provincial People's Committee and the Provincial Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee also agreed to acknowledge that the monitoring and social criticism activities of the Vietnam Fatherland Front and organizations, especially at the district and grassroots levels, are still of limited quality; they have not coordinated well with the Provincial People's Committee in proposing to monitor cases that cause public outrage, and in providing social criticism on draft legal documents related to the rights and legitimate interests of people and businesses. The Front's work in preventing and combating corruption, waste, and administrative reform has not been as expected at times and in some places.

For the Provincial People's Committee, the coordination of proposing comments and social criticism of some draft documents by the Provincial People's Committee and departments and branches is sometimes not really proactive; the time to send documents is still not guaranteed, leading to low effectiveness of comments. The direction of coordination in providing information, publicizing programs and projects; compensation and site clearance for the People and for the People's Inspectorate and the Investment Supervision Board of the community to supervise is sometimes and in some places not timely. The coordination in resolving some recommendations of voters is not really effective, there are still some contents that voters have recommended many times.

XBuilding an interactive system between people and government

In the Coordination Regulations for the period 2022 - 2026, the leaders of the Provincial People's Committee and the Standing Committee of the Provincial Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee agreed on the need to innovate the way of doing things to perform better, with better quality, more meaningfully and contribute more to the implementation of socio-economic development goals and tasks; ensuring national defense - security, Party building, and building the political system of the province in the new period.

Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Committee of Nghe An province spoke at the Conference to evaluate the Coordination Regulations for the period 2017 - 2021 and sign the Coordination Regulations for the period 2022 - 2026. Photo: Thanh Duy

In particular, at the signing ceremony of the regulations, comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee to continue to pay attention to coordination, strengthen connections, share information, especially apply information technology in receiving, processing, and classifying feedback and recommendations from people and voters; accordingly, it is necessary to build a database system that is consistent both horizontally and vertically, aiming to maximally process and specifically respond to feedback and recommendations from people and voters; at the same time, this is also a channel to grasp the situation of public opinion.

Comrade Vo Thi Minh Sinh - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Nghe An province said: On the Front side, we will continue to strive to implement the policy agreed upon by the Provincial People's Committee to build an interactive system between the people and the government; more thoroughly deploy the content related to the supervision of cadres, party members, administrative reform work;...

With that viewpoint, according to the leader of the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee, the new point in the Regulations for this period is that the scope of coordination has more clearly defined the tasks between the two sides with the aim of building and protecting a clean and strong government; caring for and protecting the legitimate and legal rights and interests of the People; promoting the People's right to mastery; consolidating, expanding and strengthening the great national unity bloc; successfully implementing the goals and tasks of socio-economic development, national defense and security of the province.

Comrade Nguyen Duc Thanh - Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Nghe An province said at the signing ceremony of the Regulation: The coordination content has been reviewed and revised by both sides to clarify the work and responsibilities of the parties. The new point is that in the work of drafting legal documents, the Provincial People's Committee is responsible for sending draft documents to the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee and member organizations of the Provincial Fatherland Front to participate in social criticism according to the provisions of the Law on Promulgation of Documents. The Provincial Fatherland Front Committee is responsible for organizing criticism, giving comments and sending criticism and comments to the Provincial People's Committee for study, acceptance and completion of the document.

The two sides will also step up coordination to resolve recommendations from the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee, including coordinating to build and organize the implementation of an interactive system between the people and the government; at the same time, coordinating to support the inspection and handling of feedback and recommendations from people and businesses to ensure timeliness and compliance with functions and tasks.