10th Session, 15th National Assembly: Many outstanding marks of the special term

The National Assembly Chairman stated that the 15th National Assembly is a special term, operating in a context facing many challenges, with the workload many times higher than previous terms.

On the morning of October 20, at the opening session of the 10th session, National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man presented the draft report on the work of the 15th tenure of the National Assembly.

Strongly promote the role in perfecting institutions and laws

The National Assembly Chairman stated that the 15th National Assembly is a special term, operating in a context facing many challenges, complicated global pandemics, natural disasters, severe climate change, and unpredictable fluctuations in the world political and economic situation.

The workload has increased many times compared to previous terms, with many important issues and new, complex, and unprecedented content.

"In that situation, the National Assembly has affirmed its role as the highest state power agency, the highest representative body of the people, demonstrating its mettle, intelligence, innovation, enhancing professionalism, publicity, transparency, democracy, and efficiency, performing well the functions of constitution-making, legislation, supreme supervision, and deciding on important issues of the country, as well as parliamentary diplomatic activities, leaving many outstanding marks," the National Assembly Chairman emphasized.

Specifically, the National Assembly has strongly promoted its role in perfecting institutions and laws. The amendment and supplementation of a number of articles of the 2013 Constitution has promptly institutionalized the Party's major policies, especially on the arrangement of the state apparatus in the direction of "streamlining, effectiveness, efficiency, closeness to the people, closeness to the people, closeness to reality".

Legislative activities have strong innovations in thinking, construction processes, proactiveness, creativity, positivity, early preparation from afar; promoting the role of "being one step ahead in terms of institutions," promptly responding to new situations, meeting the requirements of practical life.

Policies always take people and businesses as the center, actively removing difficulties and obstacles to contribute to liberating production capacity, mobilizing and effectively using all resources for the cause of national development.

For the first time, the National Assembly submitted to the Politburo for consideration and approval the orientation of the Law-making Program for the entire term. The work of reviewing legal documents was actively implemented, detecting and promptly handling many contradictory, overlapping and inappropriate regulations, ensuring the unity, synchronization and feasibility of the legal system.

Supervision activities have been strengthened, focused, substantial and have many practical innovations; concentrating on areas and issues of current importance, having a profound impact on socio-economic development and people's lives.

For the first time, the National Assembly's Supervisory Forum was successfully organized; along with the discussion in the hall of the Report on the results of supervising the settlement of voters' petitions; the results of receiving citizens, handling petitions and supervising the settlement of complaints and denunciations sent to the National Assembly,... which has contributed significantly to the work of perfecting the law, deciding important issues of the country, improving the effectiveness and efficiency of controlling state power, the operation of the state apparatus, and the responsibility for performing public duties, which has been highly appreciated and agreed upon by voters and people.

The decision-making on important national issues has been fundamentally reformed. The National Assembly has accompanied and closely coordinated with the Government and relevant agencies to decide on many important and strategic issues, promptly responding to reality, serving rapid and sustainable socio-economic development, ensuring practical care for social security, health care, and education for the people, and at the same time, has decided on revolutionary issues regarding the organization of the state apparatus.

The National Assembly's foreign affairs activities have been promoted on both bilateral and multilateral levels, in depth, implemented at many levels, achieved many good results, created a strong impression, contributing to raising the level of Vietnam's foreign affairs activities along with the general successes of the Party's foreign affairs and State diplomacy.

In addition, the way of organizing National Assembly sessions has many improvements, innovations, and flexibility to adapt to the realities. The XV term has the largest number of sessions ever and is the first term in the history of its operation that the National Assembly organized 19 sessions, including 9 extraordinary sessions to promptly consider and decide on important and urgent contents, meeting the practical requirements.

National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man said that the National Assembly has been exemplary in arranging the organizational apparatus, and at the same time, proactively implementing assigned tasks to work with the entire political system to resolutely put the 2-level local government model into operation from July 1, 2025, which has been recognized and highly appreciated by the Party Central Committee, the Politburo, the Secretariat, and General Secretary To Lam.

The National Assembly actively deploys the application of science, technology, innovation and national digital transformation; promotes the application of artificial intelligence, digital transformation, builds digital infrastructure, develops specialized platforms and systems, initially contributing to modernizing and improving the efficiency of the National Assembly's operations.

The organization of the 80th anniversary of the first General Election to elect the National Assembly of Vietnam was prepared early, with many meaningful and practical activities being implemented. For the first time, the meeting between General Secretary To Lam and generations of National Assembly deputies was successfully organized, solemn, meaningful and touching.

Strengthening comprehensive digital transformation in the activities of the National Assembly

The National Assembly Chairman pointed out that, in addition to the achieved results, there are still limitations that need to be overcome, such as: institutional improvement has not fully met the requirements of development practice, is not compatible with the context of deep international integration and newly arising domestic socio-economic issues.

Panorama of the solemn opening session of the 10th session of the 15th National Assembly. (Photo: Pham Kien/VNA)

The supervision and decision-making activities on important national issues still have limitations. Some emerging issues that cause public outrage have not been promptly supervised; the urging and monitoring of post-supervision recommendations in some cases are not yet drastic and effective...

Stating that the 16th National Assembly term is an important milestone on the country's new development path, with the meaning of orienting the future, entering a new era for the Vietnamese nation, the National Assembly Chairman emphasized that this poses great requirements and tasks for the work of the National Assembly, especially the task of perfecting institutions with the requirement of "Turning institutional reform into a competitive advantage, into a driving force for development".

The 15th National Assembly recommends that the 16th National Assembly and subsequent terms continue to innovate thinking and perform well the three most important functions: legislation, supreme supervision, and deciding on important issues of the country.

Legislative activities need to be identified as the “breakthrough of breakthroughs”, must go ahead, pave the way, lead the country’s development, encourage creativity, liberate all labor, unleash all resources for development; ensure healthy competition, improve integration capacity. Focus on new areas such as digital economy, digital assets, data, renewable energy, green growth, circular economy, environment, climate change, non-traditional defense and security, etc.

Monitoring activities need to focus on issues such as land management, resources, environment, anti-corruption, waste prevention, protection of human rights, civil rights... Closely linked to reality and people's feedback, increasing surveys at the grassroots level, listening to opinions from reality, from voters and the business community to accurately identify hot spots and bottlenecks of the socio-economy, thereby having flexible, timely and realistic policy responses.

Activities that decide important issues of the country must ensure objectivity and impartiality. All decisions must truly put the interests of the nation, the people, and the people above all else, resolutely preventing and eliminating all domination by group interests and all negative external influences.

Continue to promote the role and uphold the responsibility of National Assembly deputies; each National Assembly deputy needs to demonstrate the desire to contribute, dare to think, dare to do, dare to innovate, dare to take responsibility, and truly be a loyal representative of the will and aspirations of the people.

Continue to study and innovate the way the National Assembly and its agencies operate, ensuring efficiency, reducing formality, and increasing substance. The focus is on continuing to improve the building of session agendas, methods of discussion, debate, questioning and answering questions, the verification process, organizing supervision, and contacting voters; the central role of full-time National Assembly deputies; and the way the agencies of the National Assembly operate.

Strengthening comprehensive digital transformation in the activities of the National Assembly, building a "digital National Assembly," applying artificial intelligence AI, considering the task of innovation and digital transformation as a breakthrough in organizing the implementation of functions and tasks of the National Assembly, National Assembly agencies and National Assembly deputies, the digital popularization movement must be carried out regularly and continuously.

Strengthen coordination among agencies of the National Assembly, Government, Vietnam Fatherland Front, Supreme People's Court, Supreme People's Procuracy, State Audit, and functional agencies in preparing contents to be submitted to the National Assembly, ensuring closeness and effectiveness.

Continue to improve the organization of the advisory and support apparatus in a streamlined, professional and efficient manner; review functions and tasks to avoid overlap and clearly define advisory and support roles./.

(TTXVN/Vietnam+)

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