Improve the quality of social supervision and criticism

Co-chairing the conference were comrades Truong Thi Mai - Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Committee for Mass Mobilization; Hau A Lenh - Party Central Committee member, Vice President, General Secretary of the Vietnam Fatherland Front; Ngo Sach Thuc - Vice President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee.

On Nghe An side, there were comrade Nguyen Van Huy - Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Nghe An province; Hoang Dinh Tuan - Deputy Head of the Mass Mobilization Committee of Nghe An province; Nguyen Thanh Hien - Deputy Head of the National Assembly Delegation of Nghe An province and representatives of relevant departments and branches.

At the Central bridge, comrade Tran Thanh Man, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front chaired the Conference.

Positive changes

After 5 years of implementing Decision 217-QD/TW and Decision 218-QD/TW, the awareness of cadres, party members, civil servants and public employees about supervision, social criticism, and participation in giving opinions on Party and government building has been improved and has had many positive changes.

Thereby, 56 collectives and 12 individuals with outstanding achievements after 5 years of implementing Decision 217-QD/TW and Decision 218-QD/TW were awarded certificates of merit by the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front.

The monitoring activities of socio-political organizations have been comprehensively deployed. The Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front has presided over and coordinated with member organizations of the Front and relevant ministries and branches to develop and sign 12 joint monitoring programs and 1 pilot coordination regulation on monitoring the responsibilities of district and commune leaders in leading the work of preventing and combating corruption.

At the local level, the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committees at all levels have presided over and coordinated the supervision of more than 492,000 supervisions, of which 4,093 were at the provincial level, 22,679 were at the district level and 466 were at the commune level, with many important contents related to the legitimate rights and interests of the people such as: implementation of land compensation regimes and policies, resettlement and temporary residence arrangements for people whose houses and land were recovered; reception of people and settlement of complaints and denunciations; review of preferential policies for people with revolutionary contributions.

Comrade Nguyen Van Huy - Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Nghe An province chaired the conference at Nghe An bridge. Photo: Thanh Quynh

Social criticism work continues to be effectively implemented, 6 social criticism conferences were organized by the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front on important contents such as: Criticism of the Draft Law on Belief and Religion; Draft Law on Associations; Draft Law on amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Penal Code No. 100/2015/QH13; Draft Law on Anti-Corruption...

After the conferences, the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front sent written responses to the competent agencies and organizations for approval or issuance of documents. Many responses were accepted by the presiding agencies and received positive feedback.

The work of giving opinions on Party and government building has been carried out synchronously. The organization of direct contacts and dialogues between the heads of Party committees, authorities of agencies and units with all walks of life has been carried out regularly and continuously. Up to now, 47/63 provinces and cities have issued specific regulations and operated seriously and systematically.

Putting social monitoring and criticism into practice

In his concluding remarks at the conference, President of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Tran Thanh Man affirmed that after 5 years, the work of supervision, social criticism and participation in giving opinions on Party and government building of the Vietnam Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations at all levels in accordance with Decision No. 217 and Decision No. 218 of the Politburo has had many changes, progress and achieved many results.

However, there are still some limitations when the organization and implementation of the Regulations and Rules is still slow. Awareness of the work of supervision, social criticism, and suggestions for Party and government building in some localities is not yet uniform. The qualifications and capacity of the participating ministries have not yet met the requirements.

Comrade Tran Thanh Man delivered a concluding speech at the conference.

To overcome the remaining weaknesses, comrade Tran Thanh Man suggested that it is necessary to strengthen propaganda work and thoroughly disseminate the content, requirements and significance of the above two decisions to Party committees, authorities, organizations, cadres and people at all levels.

At the same time, promote the leading role of the Fatherland Front at all levels in developing annual social supervision and criticism plans, especially in identifying and selecting appropriate content, and gradually putting these activities into practice to achieve the set goals.