The Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial People's Council held a regular meeting in December 2023

Attending the meeting were comrades: Nguyen Nam Dinh - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Nguyen Nhu Khoi - Member of the Provincial Party Executive Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Thai Thi An Chung - Member of the Provincial Party Executive Committee, Deputy Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation; representatives of the Standing Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Nghe An province and leaders of the Committees and Office of the National Assembly Delegation - Provincial People's Council.

NEED TO OVERCOME THE DELAY IN SUBMITTING DOCUMENTS AND DRAFT RESOLUTIONS BEFORE THE MEETING

The Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council gave comments on the report assessing the preparation and organization of the 17th Session of the Provincial People's Council (regular session at the end of 2023) which took place from December 5-7, 2023 in Vinh city.

The session passed 35 resolutions, including 2 resolutions on personnel work. After the session, the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council directed the revision and completion of 35 resolutions to be submitted to the Chairman of the Provincial People's Council for certification within 3 working days after the session's closing; and issued a report on the session's results on the closing afternoon to serve voters' meetings.

After the session, 22 documents were issued, 45 opinions and recommendations of voters were forwarded to the Provincial People's Committee, departments, branches and localities to resolve and respond to voters' recommendations via the online telephone line at the 17th Session of the 18th Provincial People's Council; a notice of conclusion of the question and answer session was issued for implementation.

Reviewing the 17th Session, in addition to the basic achievements, the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council and relevant agencies frankly acknowledged, evaluated and agreed on solutions to overcome the shortcomings and limitations pointed out.

In particular, opinions focused on discussion and evaluation to find optimal solutions in the preparation of reports and draft resolutions submitted by the Provincial People's Committee to serve the review work of the Provincial People's Council Committees and the Provincial People's Council Standing Committee to ensure the prescribed time.

At the same time, based on the policy of the Provincial People's Council Party Delegation, the Provincial People's Council Standing Committee discussed solutions for innovation and reform, in order to continue to improve efficiency, quality, and ensure more scientific organization of regular meetings of the Provincial People's Council in the coming time.

CONTINUING TO INNOVATE REGULAR MEETINGS OF THE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL

Concluding this content, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Thai Thanh Quy - Chairman of the People's Council of Nghe An province emphasized the requirements to overcome the situation where the Provincial People's Committee is still slow in submitting reports and draft resolutions so that the Committees and the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council can proactively review them; at the same time, the Provincial People's Committee has time to complete and revise after review to ensure quality before submitting them to the Provincial People's Council for consideration at two regular meetings each year (held in July and December every year).

Accordingly, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Council requested that the Provincial People's Committee Office advise the Provincial People's Committee to carry out the process of building a list of resolutions to submit to the Provincial People's Council for consideration and approval at two regular meetings each year in a systematic manner; setting high requirements for members of the Provincial People's Committee to synthesize, review, and propose a reasonable and appropriate list.

After the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council unanimously approves the list of resolutions submitted to the Provincial People's Council at the beginning of the year, the Office of the Provincial People's Committee needs to distribute them evenly throughout the months so that the Provincial People's Committee can listen and give comments to complete them before submitting them to the Provincial People's Council Committees for review, without waiting until before regular meetings to implement them.

At the same time, the Provincial People's Committee Office arranges a thematic meeting before June 10 and November 10 every year to review all necessary contents to be submitted to the regular mid-year and year-end meetings of the Provincial People's Council.

The head of the Provincial People's Council requested the Office of the National Assembly Delegation - Provincial People's Council and the Office of the Provincial People's Committee to improve the effectiveness of implementing the signed Coordination Regulations between the two sides, especially supporting and urging each other in the preparation of documents for the meeting.

Regarding the evaluation of the results of the regular session, the Chairman of the People's Council of Nghe An province also requested the Office of the National Assembly Delegation - Provincial People's Council to clearly indicate the heads of the agencies in charge of drafting the draft resolutions submitted to the Provincial People's Council who did not attend the examination sessions of the Provincial People's Council Committees; the responsibilities of delegates and delegations of the Provincial People's Council at the sessions, especially pointing out the absent delegates, the reasons... and this is one of the bases for classifying delegations and delegates of the Provincial People's Council annually.

Regarding innovation and reform of the regular sessions of the Provincial People's Council, Comrade Thai Thanh Quy assigned the Office of the National Assembly Delegation - People's Council to preside over and coordinate with the Provincial People's Council Committees to open a special topic, collect opinions from the Provincial People's Committee and District People's Councils to study and advise on the contents of innovation of the regular sessions such as: Organizing question and answer sessions; group meetings, discussions in the hall... to ensure scientific and effective results.

The Chairman of the Provincial People's Council requested to submit this content to the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council for comments at the regular meeting in March 2024 for consideration, discussion, and agreement, as a basis for starting to apply innovations and reforms to the regular sessions of the Provincial People's Council starting from the regular session of the Provincial People's Council in mid-2024.

Also at the regular meeting, the Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial People's Council listened to the report on people's petition work in December 2023; assessed the results of activities in December 2023, discussed and agreed on tasks for January 2024; listened to and gave opinions on the content of supervision and the 2024 Work Program; listened to and gave opinions on the expected classification of delegation groups and provincial People's Council delegates in 2023;...