National Assembly Chairman: Commune level will be very strong when district inspectors and police are abolished

National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man - Photo: GIA HAN

On the morning of February 5, the National Assembly Standing Committee gave opinions on the draft Law on Government Organization (amended).

Promote a creative and developing government

Presenting the Government's report, Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra clearly stated the goal of amending and supplementing regulations on principles of organization and operation of the Government, tasks and powers of the Government, Prime Minister and members of the Government.

This is to create a legal basis for innovation and effective and efficient organization of the state administrative apparatus. Promote decentralization and delegation of power, promote a creative and developing government.

Examining this content, Chairman of the Law Committee Hoang Thanh Tung said that the Standing Committee of the Committee agreed with the provisions on the principle of dividing the authority of the draft law.

To handle the overlapping contents of functions and tasks between the National Assembly, the National Assembly Standing Committee and the Government under the direction of the Politburo, ensuring consistency and synchronization with the provisions of the draft Law on Organization of the Government (amended), the Standing Committee of the Committee found that the draft Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Organization of the National Assembly has added provisions on the contents that need to be regulated by law.

Regarding decentralization, Mr. Tung stated that the Standing Committee agreed with the content on decentralization in the draft law to institutionalize the conclusion of the Politburo.

Create an important legal basis to "enhance autonomy, proactiveness, creativity, and self-responsibility of agencies, units, and localities, associated with enhancing accountability of leaders and tightly controlling power".

It is recommended that the drafting agency continue to research and perfect the content of the decentralization principle.

Soft and tight tie

Giving his opinion on the discussion, National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man emphasized that amending the Law on Government Organization is to decentralize and delegate more power to the Government, helping the Government proactively solve problems.

In addition, the view of decentralization and delegation of power to the Government is "a soft rope that binds tightly".

He said that the provisions related to decentralization and delegation of power in this law need to be consistent and consistent with related laws such as the Law on Organization of Local Government, the Law on Organization of the National Assembly, the Law on Promulgation of Legal Documents, and a number of laws on management of sectors and fields.

Along with that, the principle of delimiting authority is also very important. The National Assembly Chairman also suggested that it is necessary to closely follow the direction of the competent authority, and to make statements of direction of

General Secretary To Lam at the Party Central Committee Conference.

In particular, the basic principles clearly stipulate the relationship between the Government and the National Assembly, the National Assembly Standing Committee, the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations.

Clearly define the responsibilities and authorities of executive and judicial agencies to ensure proper roles and assignments.

Regarding decentralization and delegation of power, the National Assembly Chairman reiterated General Secretary To Lam's repeated mention of the spirit of "locality decides, locality acts, locality takes responsibility". The Central Government creates, the National Assembly supervises, the Government operates.

"From now on, the National Assembly will not manage the public investment portfolio or the money portfolio, but will assign a block to the Government, and the Government will be responsible for allocating it to localities.

There is no longer a mechanism of asking and giving. The Prime Minister told me to also hand over power to ministries, branches and localities," Mr. Man emphasized.

At the same time, he said that recently there was a list, so there were "people running away, people being wronged". Therefore, it is necessary to make transparency in decentralization and authorization.

He further emphasized the need to improve administrative procedures for smoothness. "It is said that we have actually handed over but the higher-ups are still holding on. We have handed over but if we want to do anything, we still have to go through the higher-ups...", Mr. Man added.

He requested to clarify the response capacity of decentralized agencies and organizations, ensure feasibility, and avoid shirking responsibility.

With the same law, decree, circular, some localities act decisively, without asking for anything from the central government, without saying it is difficult. But some localities keep complaining about the law, decree, circular...

The National Assembly Chairman added that in the future, the commune level will be very strong while many units will be eliminated at the district level.

"Now the district inspectors no longer exist, the district police no longer exist, and there will be many more units in the future.

"Focusing on the commune and decentralizing to the commune must be given utmost attention. In such a commune, whether the resources are guaranteed when decentralizing or delegating authority or not must be given attention," Mr. Man added.

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