Content and time of organizing party congresses at all levels?
Question: How are the content and timing of party congresses at all levels regulated?
Reply:According to Circular No. 13/TT.TU dated April 26, 2025 of the Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee:
*Congress content:
- Party congresses at all levels carry out the following four contents:
(1) Summarize the implementation of the Party Congress resolution for the 2020-2025 term and determine the directions, goals, tasks, and solutions for the 2025-2030 term.
(2) Discuss and contribute opinions to the draft documents of the 14th National Party Congress and documents of the congress of the directly superior Party Committee.
(3) Elect the Party Executive Committee for the 2025 - 2030 term.
(4) Electing delegates to attend the congress of the Party Committee at a higher level.
In places where there are real difficulties in personnel preparation, and the competent Party Committee agrees, the congress with 3 contents will not proceed to elect the new Party Committee.
Party committees of communes and wards (including communes that are not merged, communes subject to merger or consolidation that have held congresses); Party committees (party cells) that are merged, consolidated, or newly established according to the policies, resolutions, and conclusions of the Party Central Committee, the Politburo, and the Secretariat of the 13th tenure on the arrangement and streamlining of the organizational apparatus of agencies and units in the political system, will have congresses with two contents (summarizing the implementation of the congress resolutions for the 2020-2025 term on the basis of the congress resolutions of the Party committees and cells before the merger or consolidation; determining the directions, goals, tasks, and solutions for the 2025-2030 term and discussing and contributing opinions to the draft documents of the 14th National Party Congress and the draft documents of the congress at the direct higher level), do not elect a new Party Committee and a delegation to attend the congress at the higher level. The Standing Committee of the immediate superior Party Committee shall directly appoint the executive committee, standing committee, secretary, deputy secretary, inspection committee, chairman, and deputy chairman of the inspection committee of the Party Committee for the new term and allocate the number and appoint delegates to attend the congress of the superior Party Committee.
For party committees of communes and wards that are not merged or consolidated, and other party organizations that have held congresses for the 2025-2030 term, (i) Organize executive committee meetings to discuss draft documents of the congresses of the directly superior party committees according to regulations. (ii) Based on the standards, conditions, structure, and number according to the Politburo's Directive, the Provincial Party Standing Committee continues to direct the review and completion of the Party Committee's personnel for the 2025-2030 term and the personnel of delegates to attend the Party Congresses of the superior party committees, ensuring compliance with regulations.
*Congress time:
- The duration of a party congress or a grassroots-level congress shall not exceed 2 days and shall be completed before June 30, 2025. The congress of delegates of the directly superior grassroots-level party committee and the commune and ward party committees shall not exceed 2 days and shall be completed before August 31, 2025. The provincial party congress shall not exceed 4 days and shall be completed before October 31, 2025.
- Time to organize the model congress: Direct superior level at the base in the beginning of the third quarter of 2025.
- For party committees (cells) not involved in the merger or arrangement, they should proactively organize the congress earlier than the above time.
- Preparatory meeting time is included in the congress time, for direct superiors at the grassroots level and above, not more than 1/2 day.
The consolidation and addition of Party Committee members and Standing Committee members for the 2020-2025 term is carried out in accordance with Conclusion No. 128-KL/TW, dated March 7, 2025 of the Politburo on personnel work policy.
