On the afternoon of October 9, the National Assembly Standing Committee gave opinions on the draft Resolution of the National Assembly on the organization of urban government in Hai Phong city.

No People's Councils in districts and wards

Presenting the draft resolution, Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra said that the urban government model in Hai Phong city is organized in a streamlined manner, ensuring unified and smooth management, suitable to the characteristics and nature of the city; meeting the city's development requirements in a dynamic and creative direction.

This model also improves the effectiveness and efficiency of state management of local authorities at all levels and the quality and efficiency of public service provision in the area; enhances the autonomy and self-responsibility of the city government; mobilizes resources for the development of civilized and modern urban areas...

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Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra. Photo: QH

The local government in Hai Phong city is the local government level consisting of the City People's Council and the City People's Committee. The local government in the districts and wards of Hai Phong city is the People's Committee of the district and ward (there is no People's Council of the district and ward).

The organization of local government in other administrative units of Hai Phong city is carried out according to the provisions of the Law on Organization of Local Government.

In the context of urban government organization (no district and ward People's Councils), the tasks and powers of the City People's Council increase due to the transfer of some tasks and powers of the district and ward People's Councils.

The Minister of Home Affairs said that in order to effectively carry out the functions, tasks, and powers, especially the supervisory function of the Hai Phong City People's Council, it is necessary to increase the number of full-time City People's Council delegates.

On that basis, the draft resolution stipulates: The Standing Committee of the City People's Council includes the Chairman of the People's Council, 2 Vice Chairmen of the People's Council and members who are Heads of the City People's Council Committees. The City People's Council Committee includes the Head, 2 Vice Heads and members.

According to the Government 's explanation, increasing the number of full-time delegates of the Hai Phong City People's Council will contribute to improving the quality of leadership, direction, supervision, inspection, and advisory work to the Standing Committee and the City People's Council.

The number of additional full-time People's Council delegates is arranged from the reduced number of staff due to not arranging full-time positions of the People's Councils of districts and wards (103 people), so there is no total staff.

Recently, the Government submitted to the National Assembly Standing Committee for consideration and approval of the Project on reorganizing administrative units at district and commune levels for the period 2023-2025 of Hai Phong city, including the establishment of Thuy Nguyen city under Hai Phong city (city model under the city).

Therefore, the Government proposed to add 1 Vice Chairman of the People's Council and establish the Urban Committee of the People's Council of Thuy Nguyen city, Hai Phong city.

At the same time, the city also increased the number of full-time delegates to arrange the positions of Head and Deputy Head of the Urban Committee of the City People's Council of Hai Phong city (with 2 Vice Chairmen and no more than 8 full-time delegates).

In addition, the Government also proposed to arrange the number of Vice Chairmen of the City People's Committee to be no more than 4 people (an increase of 1 compared to the regulation); the number of Vice Chairmen of the District People's Committee to be no more than 3 people and the number of Vice Chairmen of the Ward People's Committee to be no more than 2 people.

The number of full-time People's Council delegates and additional Vice Chairmen of the People's Committee are arranged from the reduced number of staff due to not arranging full-time positions of the People's Councils of districts and wards (103 people), so there is no total staff in the political system of Hai Phong city.

Clarifying the basis for increasing the number of Vice Chairmen of District and Ward People's Committees

Examining this content, Chairman of the Law Committee Hoang Thanh Tung said that the Committee agreed with the necessity of submitting this resolution to the National Assembly for consideration and promulgation. The regulation on the urban government model in Hai Phong city for immediate implementation without piloting has ensured full political, legal and practical bases.

The draft Resolution submitted by the Government is complete according to regulations and meets the conditions to be submitted to the National Assembly Standing Committee for consideration and comments.

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Chairman of the Law Committee Hoang Thanh Tung. Photo: QH

Many opinions in the Law Committee suggested clarifying the basis for the proposal to increase the number of Vice Chairmen of District and Ward People's Committees to increase persuasiveness because this regulation is not consistent with the policy of reducing the number of deputy levels and is not really similar to some other localities that are also implementing the urban government model.

It is recommended to study and refer to regulations on the number of Vice Chairmen of District and Ward People's Committees in localities that have been permitted by the National Assembly to implement the urban government model in order to have regulations suitable to the scale and urban nature of Hai Phong.

The Law Committee requested the drafting agency to continue reviewing and comparing with the regulations in the Resolutions on the organization of government models in Da Nang city and Ho Chi Minh City to revise and perfect the regulations on the tasks and powers of the People's Committees of districts and wards...

The auditing agency proposed to review the regulations on People's Councils and People's Committees of cities to ensure compliance with the scope of this resolution.

Accordingly, if additional specific regulations are added for the People's Council and People's Committee of a city other than other district-level urban administrative units, there needs to be additional arguments and reasons and it needs to be clarified whether this addition only applies to Thuy Nguyen city when it is established or applies to all cities under Hai Phong city (which may be established later).

If it is only applicable to Thuy Nguyen city, it should be stopped at the pilot level and implemented similarly to Thu Duc city.

Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Nguyen Khac Dinh said that the National Assembly Standing Committee approved the urban government model in Hai Phong city as proposed by the Government. The Government's dossier has met the conditions to be submitted to the National Assembly for consideration and approval according to the 1-session process (the upcoming 8th session of the National Assembly).

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