A national conference will be held to implement the merger of provincial administrative units.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chairs a meeting of the Government Party Committee's Standing Committee on the project to rearrange administrative units. (Photo: Duong Giang/VNA)

Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra said that after the Politburo meeting agreed on the policy of rearranging and reorganizing administrative units at all levels and building a model of organizing a two-level local government, the Government Party Committee sent a project to collect opinions from ministries, branches and localities, then synthesized and reported to the Central Executive Committee, expected in mid-April 2025.

After the Central Conference, there will be a national conference to implement the merger of provincial-level administrative units and the rearrangement of commune-level administrative units.

Thus, the task of ministries and branches is to focus on issuing relevant guidance documents according to their authority and responsibility, as a basis for implementing the merger and arrangement after the Central Conference.

Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra said that this is not difficult because there is experience in arranging administrative units at district and commune levels in previous times. Now, we just need to continue to adjust, expand, and supplement to make it clear and suitable for the scale of merging provincial administrative units and rearranging commune-level administrative units.

“After the Politburo meeting, all related contents, the number of provincial-level administrative units that must be rearranged and merged, have become clear. At the same time, it is also clear what the two-level local government model (provincial and sub-provincial government) is like, how to reorganize commune-level administrative units, also known as grassroots level, to ensure,” said the Minister.

According to her, there are currently 10,035 commune-level administrative units, and in the near future they will be reorganized to only about 2,000 communes, each commune "almost like a small district."

Matters relating to the reorganization of commune-level administrative units fall under the authority of the National Assembly Standing Committee. This can be done immediately after the Central Executive Committee Conference. Therefore, ministries and branches must focus on providing guidance on all relevant documents.

This must be done very urgently, the ministries must send it to the Ministry of Home Affairs soon to prepare for the national conference after the Central Executive Committee conference.

Also according to Ms. Pham Thi Thanh Tra, Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh, Head of the Steering Committee for the implementation of the arrangement and reorganization of administrative units at all levels and the construction of a 2-level local government organization model, will urgently direct all ministries and ministerial-level agencies to review all legal documents (laws and decrees).

If specialized laws are related to the authority of district-level administrative units, they must be handled by a resolution. This must be reviewed very quickly to synthesize a report for the Ministry of Justice to propose the Government to submit to the National Assembly to issue a resolution to handle issues related to specialized laws on the organization of administrative units at all levels./.

(Vietnam News Agency/Vietnam+)

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