Comrade Do Van Chien, Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, presented a report summarizing opinions and recommendations of voters and people sent to the 7th Session of the 15th National Assembly. (Photo: LINH KHOA)

In preparation for the 7th Session of the 15th National Assembly, the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front received 63/63 reports reflecting the opinions and recommendations of voters and people from the Standing Committees of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committees of provinces and cities; 37/63 reports from National Assembly delegations; 23 reports from member organizations; 16 opinions and recommendations from members of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, with a total of 1,502 opinions.

People's trust in the Party and State continues to be consolidated and strengthened.

According to comrade Do Van Chien, in the context of many complex, rapid and unpredictable developments in the world, affecting the situation and results of the implementation of the country's socio-economic development tasks, voters and people highly appreciate the Party and State, headed by comrade General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, for promptly and comprehensively directing important issues of the country, achieving many results in many fields. The economy continues to recover and develop, social security is guaranteed, people's lives are stable and gradually improved; foreign affairs continue to be promoted, achieving important results, our country's prestige and position in the international arena continue to be raised.

In addition, the work of Party building and rectification and the prevention and fight against corruption and negativity continued to be promoted; discipline was maintained; cases and incidents were handled in a manner that ensured both seriousness and humanity, education and high persuasiveness. The activities of the National Assembly and elected bodies were increasingly innovative, practical and effective, and socialist democracy was strongly promoted.

"People's trust in the Party and State continues to be consolidated and strengthened," comrade Do Van Chien emphasized.

The Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front said that voters and people are happy, excited, and highly appreciate the economic recovery and development process. Gross domestic product in the first quarter of 2024 increased by over 5.6% over the same period in 2023, the highest in the past 4 years. Major balances are guaranteed, basically maintaining the value of the Vietnamese currency. Key national projects on transportation and electricity, especially highway projects, are being accelerated; difficulties are being actively removed, promoting the recovery of 12 loss-making investment projects, now there are a number of profitable production and business projects; budget revenue has met and exceeded the plan, and public investment disbursement has changed positively. While industrial and service production is facing difficulties, and some commodity supply chains are broken, the growth of the agricultural sector is nearly 3% over the same period.

"This is a remarkable result, truly a pillar of the economy in difficult times," he affirmed.

People's trust in the Party and State continues to be consolidated and strengthened.

Comrade Do Van Chien

The Party and the State, directly the Government and the Prime Minister, always pay attention to promptly and harmoniously resolving newly arising issues related to people's interests, creating high consensus in implementing economic development tasks and ensuring social security.

In the socio-cultural field, voters and people acknowledged that the Education and Training sector has paid attention and listened to diverse opinions to innovate and adjust mechanisms and policies, add more staff, and pay attention to and improve political and ideological work in the sector. Initially, solutions have been proposed to remove difficulties to stabilize and develop preschool education.

Voters and people highly appreciate the health sector for its efforts and active advice to perfect the institution; gradually improve the effectiveness and efficiency of state management of health, medical examination and treatment, and health care for the people; continue to consolidate, improve, and enhance the quality of operations of the grassroots health sector; some problems that have existed for many years have been gradually resolved, and the team of doctors, medical staff, and employees are more secure in their work.

Voters and people acknowledged the efforts of ministries, branches and localities in food safety management, implementing the "Month of action for food safety" in 2024, strengthening inspection, examination and handling of violations.

In the field of security, order and social safety, voters and people acknowledged and highly appreciated the results of the work of ensuring national security, social order and safety, contributing to serving the political tasks and socio-economic development of the country. The Public Security sector has strengthened the fight against, suppressing and preventing crimes and violations; the activities of the regular communal police have brought about practical results, effectively advising the Party Committee and the government in ensuring security and order at the local and grassroots levels. Voters and people highly agreed and welcomed the resolute control of alcohol concentration to prevent traffic accidents.

In the fields of land, environmental protection, and natural disaster prevention, voters and people, including overseas Vietnamese and international organizations, highly appreciated the efforts of the Party, State, National Assembly, Government, ministries, branches, and localities in listening to the opinions of businesses and people, synthesizing, analyzing, absorbing, perfecting, and passing the Land Law (amended) to basically meet practical requirements. Acknowledging the efforts of the Natural Resources and Environment sector and localities that have been more proactive and active in implementing policies and laws on environmental protection and natural disaster prevention.

Agree when some senior officials who have violated the law are removed from their positions

Regarding the work of preventing and combating corruption, negativity and waste, voters and people highly appreciate the work of preventing and combating corruption and negativity under the leadership of the Party, headed by General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, Head of the Central Steering Committee on preventing and combating corruption and negativity, which continues to achieve important and comprehensive results, "words go hand in hand with actions", there are truly no forbidden areas, no exceptions, regardless of who the person is; the authorities not only handle violators promptly, strictly, reasonably and sympathetically, but also recover many assets for the State. The activities of the provincial Steering Committee on preventing and combating corruption and negativity have initially achieved some remarkable results.

Voters and people agree and support the Party and State for promptly resolving the issue so that a number of high-ranking officials who violated the things that Party members are not allowed to do and the responsibility to set an example are no longer assigned to them. At the same time, they have great confidence in the Party and State to "relentlessly and without rest" in this difficult and complicated struggle. They hope that ministries, branches and competent agencies will have effective solutions and "take stronger measures" to fight, prevent and strictly handle those who post and provide "false" and "toxic" information that affects the overall achievements.

Regarding the field of internal affairs, receiving citizens, and resolving voters' petitions, voters and people highly appreciated the efforts of the Home Affairs sector in preparing conditions for reforming salary policies from July 1, 2024; The Ministry of Home Affairs has paid attention to the opinions of voters and people to make necessary adjustments in the organization and arrangement of administrative units at district and commune levels for the period 2023-2030... The work of receiving citizens, resolving opinions and petitions of voters and people in many localities after supervision by the National Assembly, the Vietnam Fatherland Front and People's Councils at all levels has improved, the rate of resolving petitions and complaints is quite high.

Voters and people highly appreciate the fight against corruption and negativity under the leadership of the Party, headed by General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, Head of the Central Steering Committee on corruption and negativity prevention and control, which continues to achieve important and comprehensive results...

Comrade Do Van Chien

Voters and people were happy and excited when the Party and State successfully organized the 70th anniversary celebration of the historic Dien Bien Phu victory, contributing to educating traditions, spreading patriotism and national pride, and doing many practical things to show gratitude to families of martyrs, wounded soldiers, sick soldiers, youth volunteers, frontline workers... which were highly appreciated by public opinion.

Voters and people welcomed and highly appreciated the Central Emulation and Reward Council together with the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front for launching the emulation movement "the whole country joins hands to eliminate temporary and dilapidated houses for poor households". At the same time, they hoped that the movement would receive active support from businesses, organizations and individuals; along with the support of the State, to achieve the set goals.

Still many concerns and worries

In addition to the comments and high appreciation, voters and people nationwide also expressed some concerns and worries such as: The number of dissolved and temporarily suspended enterprises has not shown any signs of decreasing, the number of workers who have stopped working, quit their jobs, and withdrawn their social insurance at one time has increased; prices of fertilizers, pesticides, electricity, and air tickets continue to increase; consumption of agricultural, forestry, and fishery products is still difficult, the recovery of the tourism economy is not yet stable, the implementation of the 3 National Target Programs is still slow; prices of essential goods are still high while wages have not increased, somewhat affecting the lives of employees, wage earners, and unemployed workers with unstable incomes.

In the field of education and training, voters and people are concerned about the fact that the needs of students studying in public schools are high but the ability to meet them is limited; vocational training has not met the requirements of creating jobs for people of working age, especially young people in rural and remote areas.

Scene of the opening session of the 7th Session, 15th National Assembly. (Photo: LINH KHOA)

Voters and people are still concerned about the shortage of some supplies, medicines, and medical equipment for medical examination and treatment. The quality of medical examination and treatment at the grassroots level is still low, there is still an overload in central hospitals; the list of medicines covered by health insurance is still inadequate. There is a potential risk of poisoning in collective kitchens.

Voters and people are worried about extreme weather, heat, drought, saltwater intrusion, lack of water for production and people's daily life, especially in mountainous areas, the Central Highlands, and the Southwest; storms causing landslides in mountainous areas, along rivers and streams in the Northwest...

Regarding security and order, voters said that there are still potential complex security factors in cyberspace, there are still a number of particularly serious traffic and work accidents that kill and injure many people; the risk of unsafe fire and explosion is still high.

Regarding internal affairs, voters and people are concerned and worried that in some localities, the implementation of policies for commune-level officials, civil servants, and part-time workers who no longer have jobs has not been timely; some assets after the merger have not been used effectively; administrative discipline and order are not strict in some places and in some cases; there are still some administrative procedures that are no longer suitable, but are slow to be amended, supplemented or replaced, causing difficulties for businesses and people.

Need to speed up the implementation of National Target Programs

Also in the presentation, comrade Do Van Chien presented the groups of recommendations of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front.

Accordingly, the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front recommends that the Party and State further strengthen information and propaganda work to unify awareness, create higher consensus among cadres, civil servants and public employees, especially among the people, on economic development policies, solving social issues, Party building and rectification, preventing and combating corruption and negativity, etc.; promptly detect and resolutely and strictly handle organizations and individuals who take advantage of democracy, distort the truth, "interfere" with information, especially "bad, toxic" and "slanderous" information that reduces the prestige of organizations and individual leaders, affecting the common cause of the Party, State and our people.

Recommend to the Party and State to direct ministries, branches and localities to speed up the implementation of national target programs, especially the Program on poverty reduction and socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas; promptly resolve difficulties in residential land, production land, domestic water, livelihoods, social security, etc.

In addition, ministries, branches and localities need to remove difficulties to limit businesses from leaving the market, create conditions for businesses to restore production and create jobs for workers, because the challenge of employment and income for people is a rather acute issue.

There needs to be a synchronous and fundamental solution to provide enough water for people's daily life and ensure production in some difficult areas, such as in mountainous areas, the Central Highlands, and the Southwest. It can be understood that water is an essential commodity, and it is necessary to study and have support policies from the State to ensure people's lives.

Conduct a general review and collect all recommendations from residents in apartment buildings nationwide to research and satisfactorily resolve disputes between residents and investors and management boards that are quite common today, ensuring the legal and legitimate rights and interests of residents, and being transparent for residents to monitor.

Recommend that the Government direct ministries, branches, and competent agencies to review guiding documents and "necessary and sufficient" conditions to implement the new wage policy from July 1, 2024. In particular, it is necessary to promptly resolve arising problems and difficulties so that the new wage policy truly motivates cadres, civil servants, public employees, and wage earners to improve the quality and efficiency of serving people and businesses.

The Central Emulation and Commendation Council chaired by the Prime Minister, together with the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, launched the emulation movement "The whole country joins hands to eliminate temporary and dilapidated houses in 2025" nationwide, practically celebrating the 50th anniversary of the liberation of the South, the 80th anniversary of the founding of the country, and the 14th National Party Congress. Along with mobilizing social resources, recommending the Party and the State to consider allocating more resources from the state budget to support localities with difficulties to strive to achieve the goal of eliminating temporary and dilapidated houses for poor households by the end of 2025, contributing to the successful implementation of Resolution No. 42-NQ/TW dated November 24, 2023 of the Central Executive Committee of the 13th Party Congress on continuing to innovate and improve the quality of social policies.

The Presidium of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front also recommended that ministries, branches and localities further improve the quality of handling voters' and people's opinions and recommendations. Statistics show that the handling rate is high but mainly provides information, cites documents, and explains policies; the number of opinions resolved with specific results is still low, not meeting the expectations of voters and people.

According to People