Special marks of the 15th National Assembly

Photo caption — National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man delivers the opening speech. Photo: Doan Tan/VNA

Strongly promote the role of institutional improvement

National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man said: The 15th National Assembly is a special term, operating in a context facing many challenges, complicated global pandemics, natural disasters, severe climate change, unpredictable fluctuations in the world political and economic situation; the workload has increased many times compared to previous terms, many important issues, many new, complicated, unprecedented contents.

In that situation, the National Assembly has affirmed its role as the highest State power agency, the highest representative agency 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.

At the same time, the National Assembly left many outstanding marks. Firstly, 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".

Second, legislative activities have strongly innovated in thinking, construction process, proactively, creatively, actively, and prepared early from afar; promoted the role of "being one step ahead in terms of institutions", promptly responded to new situations, and met the requirements of practical life; policies always put people and businesses at the center, actively removed 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 of the orientation of the Law-making Program for the entire term. The work of reviewing legal documents has been actively implemented, detecting and promptly handling many contradictory, overlapping and inappropriate regulations, ensuring the unity, synchronization and feasibility of the legal system.

Third, supervision activities have been strengthened, focused, key, substantive and have many practical innovations; focusing on areas and issues of current importance, with profound impacts on socio-economic development and people's lives. For the first time, the National Assembly's Supervisory Forum was successfully organized; along with the organization of discussions in the hall on the Report on the results of supervision of 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... have made important contributions 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.

Fourth, 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.

Fifth, 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.

Sixth, the way the National Assembly sessions are organized 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 issues, meeting the practical requirements.

Seventh, the National Assembly has been exemplary in arranging the organizational apparatus, 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.

Eighth, actively deploy the application of science, technology, innovation and national digital transformation; promote the application of artificial intelligence, digital transformation, build digital infrastructure, develop specialized platforms and systems, initially contributing to modernizing and improving the efficiency of the National Assembly's operations.

Ninth, the organization of the 80th Anniversary of the First General Election to elect the Vietnamese National Assembly 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, solemnly, meaningfully and movingly.

Continue to innovate thinking

In addition to the achieved results, National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man pointed out that there are still limitations that need to be overcome, such as: the completion of institutions 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; the legislative program must be adjusted and supplemented many times; a number of legal regulations are still limited, lacking synchronization, feasibility, and low predictability; the supervision and decision-making activities on important issues of the country still have limitations, a number of issues that have arisen and caused public outrage have not been promptly supervised; the urging and monitoring of the handling of recommendations after supervision in some cases are not yet drastic and effective; the monitoring of the implementation of agreements and results of foreign affairs activities is not yet effective; the activities of friendship organizations are still formal; the work of advising and organizing to serve the activities of the National Assembly is sometimes passive; Information technology infrastructure, digital transformation, and facilities, although receiving investment attention, still face difficulties...

The National Assembly Chairman also affirmed that the 16th National Assembly is an important milestone on the country's new development path, with the meaning of orienting the future, entering a new era of the Vietnamese nation. It sets out 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 proposed to the 16th National Assembly and the following terms a number of issues as follows:

Continue to innovate thinking, perform well the three most important functions: legislation, supreme supervision, and deciding on important national issues; 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, and unleash all resources for development; ensure healthy competition, and 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... 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 with practice and feedback from people, increasing surveys at the grassroots level, listening to opinions from practice, from voters and the business community to correctly identify hot spots, correct bottlenecks of the socio-economy, thereby having flexible, timely and realistic policy responses. Activities to decide on important issues of the country need to ensure objectivity and impartiality, all decisions need to truly put the interests of the nation, the people, and the interests of the people above all, first of all, resolutely preventing and eliminating all domination by group interests and all negative impacts from outside.

In addition, to continue promoting the role and upholding 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, truly be a loyal representative of the will and aspirations of the people; continue to research, improve and innovate the way the National Assembly and National Assembly agencies operate, ensuring efficiency, reducing formality and increasing substance; strengthen comprehensive digital transformation in the activities of the National Assembly, building a "digital National Assembly", applying 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.

In addition, strengthen coordination among agencies of the National Assembly, the Government, the Vietnam Fatherland Front, the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuracy, the State Audit, and relevant agencies in preparing contents to be submitted to the National Assembly, ensuring strictness and efficiency; continue to perfect the organization of the advisory and support apparatus in the direction of streamlining, professionalism, and effective operation; review functions and tasks to avoid overlap, and clearly define the advisory and support roles.

Source: https://baotintuc.vn/thoi-su/nhung-dau-an-dac-biet-cua-quoc-hoi-khoa-xv-20251020111714209.htm