General Secretary To Lam delivers the opening speech at the 11th Conference of the 13th Party Central Committee. Photo: VNA

Long term vision

In his opening speech at the 11th Conference of the 13th Party Central Committee, General Secretary To Lam once again affirmed: Over the past 4 months, implementing the conclusions of the Central Committee, the Politburo and the Secretariat have led and directed the basic completion of the organization and streamlining of the Party, Government, National Assembly and Fatherland Front agencies at the Central level. The figures on the reduction of focal points and work efficiency as well as cost savings stated in the reports have clearly demonstrated the revolutionary nature of this streamlining.

The General Secretary also assessed that the organizational model of the political system is not yet complete, especially at the local level. “To continue the revolution in streamlining the organizational apparatus, the Politburo and the Secretariat held many meetings, thoroughly discussed many aspects and agreed to submit to the Central Committee the Project on rearranging and reorganizing administrative units at all levels and building a model of organizing a two-level local government; along with Projects on the Party organization system at the local level; Projects on rearranging and streamlining the Fatherland Front agencies, socio-political organizations, and mass organizations assigned by the Party and the State; Projects on rearranging the Courts and Procuracies; and Projects on amending and supplementing the Constitution and laws of the State, amending and supplementing regulations on implementing the Party's charter, regulations on Party inspection and supervision to ensure synchronous implementation. This is an issue that cadres, party members and people are very interested in. The information that the Politburo and the Secretariat have grasped is that the vast majority of people and cadres and party members agree to support and highly appreciate this policy. and hope to soon implement it," the General Secretary emphasized.

General Secretary To Lam emphasized that the Project on rearranging and reorganizing administrative units at all levels and building a 2-level local government model, along with the accompanying Projects, are very important and historic issues; not only arranging the organization, apparatus, and staff; but also decentralizing authority; rearranging administrative units; allocating resources; creating space for development. The goal is to build a Government that is close to the people, serving the people better; at the same time, opening up a new situation in national development with a long-term vision, at least for the next 100 years.

Perfecting policies and laws on the organization of two-level local government

According to Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra, the Ministry of Home Affairs is drafting the Law on Organization of Local Government (amended) to convert the local government organization model from the current 3 levels (province, district and commune) to 2 levels (province and grassroots level), ensuring a streamlined, efficient, effective, and unified apparatus and the consistency and smoothness of the state administration from the central to grassroots levels.

Quang Ngai Province Administrative Procedure Control and Service Center serves people coming to do administrative procedures. Photo: Hai Au/VNA

The Ministry of Home Affairs said that in order to implement the Party's policy on streamlining the organization and apparatus of the political system (no district-level organization, implementation of a 2-level local government model), the National Assembly Party Committee is directing the amendment and supplementation of a number of articles of the 2013 Constitution with the scope of issues on the organization and apparatus of the political system, including amending and supplementing a number of articles of Chapter IX regulating local government, planning to abolish the district-level administrative unit (DVHC), and local government is only organized into 2 levels (including the provincial level and the level below the provincial level).

Accordingly, after the National Assembly considers and approves the Resolution amending and supplementing a number of articles of the 2013 Constitution, it will promptly amend and supplement the current Law on Organization of Local Government to ensure consistency with the provisions of the 2013 Constitution (after amendments and supplements) on local government.

In addition, the Law on Organization of Local Government 2025 (effective from March 1, 2025) has been comprehensively amended and supplemented to clearly define authority, promote decentralization, delegation, and authorization between central and local state agencies; between local government levels and overcome shortcomings, problems, and limitations in the implementation of the Law on Organization of Local Government 2015.

According to Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra, the regulations on administrative units and the local government organization model in the current Law on Organization of Local Government are designed at 3 levels (provincial, district and communal levels). Therefore, it is necessary to amend and supplement the regulations of the Law on Organization of Local Government to implement the 2-level local government model and the issues arising when converting from the 3-level local government model to the 2-level local government model are urgent in order to create a legal corridor for agencies and organizations in the state apparatus to operate according to the 2-level local government model, ensuring streamlining, compactness, strength, efficiency, effectiveness, and efficiency, meeting the new development requirements of the country.

The objective of developing the Law on Organization of Local Government (amended) is to fundamentally amend the regulations on organization and operation of local governments to fully institutionalize the policies and orientations in the Party's documents and resolutions, the conclusions of the Politburo and the Secretariat, and to specify the provisions of the Constitution (after amendment) to convert the local government organization model from the current 3 levels (provincial, district and communal levels) to 2 levels (provincial and grassroots levels), ensuring a streamlined, efficient, effective, and efficient apparatus and the unity and continuity of the state administration from the central to grassroots levels.

Based on the assigned functions, tasks and powers, central ministries and branches shall proactively propose and submit to competent authorities for promulgation or promulgate under their authority legal documents and guidance documents to resolve issues related to the arrangement of administrative units, termination of operations of district-level administrative units and the organization of two-level local governments, ensuring that after the arrangement of administrative units, the organization of two-level local governments operates smoothly, without interruption, and without legal gaps. Completion date is before June 30, 2025.

According to baotintuc.vn

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