The National Assembly meets to decide on fundamental laws and resolutions to implement the restructuring and streamlining of the apparatus.
On the morning of February 12, the 15th National Assembly opened its 9th extraordinary session to review and give opinions on many important contents, focusing on serving the streamlining of the organizational apparatus according to Resolution 18 of the Central Committee.
Attending the opening session were comrades: General Secretary To Lam; former General Secretary Nong Duc Manh; Politburo member, President Luong Cuong; Politburo member, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh; Politburo member, National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man chaired and delivered the opening speech of the session.
Attending the opening session were Politburo member, Standing member of the Secretariat Tran Cam Tu; Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Do Van Chien; Politburo members; Secretaries of the Party Central Committee; Vice Presidents; Deputy Prime Ministers; Vice Chairmen of the National Assembly; Party Central Committee members; members of the National Assembly Standing Committee; Heads and Deputy Heads of National Assembly delegations of provinces and centrally run cities; leaders of central and local agencies.
At the preparatory session, the National Assembly delegates reached a high consensus and voted to approve the content and agenda of the session. The National Assembly will work for 6.5 days, from February 12 to February 19, 2025, including working on Saturdays.
In his opening speech, comrade Tran Thanh Man said: The National Assembly will review and decide on fundamental laws and resolutions to reorganize and streamline the apparatus to promptly concretize the policies and resolutions of the Party Central Committee on reorganizing and streamlining the apparatus of the political system, operating effectively, efficiently and effectively, ensuring that agencies, organizations and units after reorganization and consolidation are truly "upgraded, raised to a higher level, with better quality and higher efficiency"; reduce focal points, eliminate intermediate levels, clearly define the scope, tasks and authority of agencies according to the Constitution, promote decentralization and delegation of power, implement the "management by results" method, strongly shift from "pre-inspection" to "post-inspection" associated with strengthening inspection, supervision and control of power.
At this session, the National Assembly will consider and pass four draft laws, including: Law on Government Organization (amended); Law on Organization of Local Government (amended); Law on Amending and Supplementing a Number of Articles of the Law on Organization of the National Assembly; Law on Promulgation of Legal Documents (amended) and five draft resolutions to implement the reorganization of the National Assembly and Government apparatus for the 15th National Assembly term.
In particular, the review and approval of the Law on Promulgation of Legal Documents (amended) has important significance, plays a fundamental role, and creates a legal corridor for the construction and organization of the implementation of the system of legal documents.
The Draft Law has been comprehensively studied and revised, with major changes, solving practical problems, in accordance with the spirit of Conclusion No. 119 dated January 20, 2025 of the Politburo on the orientation of innovation and improvement of the law-making process: Accordingly, minimizing unnecessary processes and procedures; clearly defining the authority of the National Assembly, the Government and agencies in the political system, promoting dynamism and creativity associated with roles and responsibilities, strengthening control of power, preventing and combating corruption, waste and negativity; assigning only one agency to preside over and take primary responsibility for a task; the Government and agencies submitting draft laws are ultimately responsible for the draft laws submitted by their agencies; ensuring close, effective, synchronous and timely coordination in policy and law making between the National Assembly and the Government, between ministries, branches and between the Central and local levels; ensure synchronization, unity, and conformity with changes in organizational structure, functions, tasks, and powers of agencies after restructuring the apparatus; create a legal framework to promptly remove institutional obstacles and shortcomings that have been identified as "bottlenecks of bottlenecks", so that institutions become "breakthroughs of breakthroughs", unlocking resources for the country to develop rapidly and sustainably in the new era of the nation.
The National Assembly will consider and pass 7 Resolutions to promptly remove difficulties and obstacles to promote the country's socio-economic development and specific mechanisms and policies for a number of projects and works such as: Supplementary project on socio-economic development in 2025 with a growth target of 8% or more; investment policy for the Lao Cai - Hanoi - Hai Phong railway project; specific and special mechanisms and policies to develop the urban railway network system in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City until 2035; investment plan to supplement charter capital for the 2024 - 2026 period of the parent company - Vietnam Expressway Corporation; Resolution on piloting a number of policies to remove obstacles in science, technology and innovation activities; policies and specific mechanisms and policies to build nuclear power plants in Ninh Thuan...
The National Assembly will carry out a number of personnel work contents within its authority, in accordance with Party regulations and State laws, and perfect positions to ensure the new apparatus operates effectively and efficiently, meeting the country's development requirements in the coming period.
The 9th extraordinary session of the 15th National Assembly took place in the first days of Spring 2025 with new confidence and spirit, in the joy of the country's development achievements. With a very high sense of responsibility, the agencies of the National Assembly, the Government, and relevant agencies closely coordinated, made every effort, and worked on holidays and Tet holidays to prepare the best quality content to be presented to the National Assembly.
“On behalf of the National Assembly Standing Committee, I respectfully request that National Assembly deputies promote democracy, in the spirit of "work efficiency is paramount", together with practical work experience and local and grassroots practices, to reflect and contribute sincere, frank and quality comments so that all contents in the Session's agenda are considered and approved with the highest unity and consensus, meeting the requirements of practice and political tasks, best meeting the expectations of voters and people nationwide", National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man emphasized.