Voters of Hue City made recommendations at a meeting with voters of the Hue City People's Council delegation.

Right from the beginning of the term, the People's Council of Huong Thuy Town has focused on improving the quality of its activities by coordinating with the Department of Home Affairs and specialized agencies to organize training courses on operational skills for the People's Council delegations. However, the qualifications of delegates at all levels are uneven, and the People's Council delegates mainly work part-time, especially at the commune level, which has affected the quality and effectiveness of their activities. The awareness of local Party committees and authorities about the activities of the People's Council is still inadequate, which more or less affects the role, functions and tasks of the People's Council delegations.

In addition to subjective causes, the activities of the People's Council delegation are still "stuck" due to some legal provisions that are not specific and clear; regulations on conditions to ensure the activities of People's Council delegates are not consistent; delegates holding leadership positions and heads of state administrative agencies when performing their delegate responsibilities sometimes cannot avoid the situation of "both playing football and blowing the whistle"; in the supervision activities, being both the subject of supervision and the subject of supervision, they are still confused in expressing their rights and responsibilities...

From the perspective of the Standing Committee of the People's Council of Huong Thuy Town, the implementation of the special form of supervision, which is questioning, is mainly focused on full-time delegates; voter contact activities are only focused before and after the session as assigned by the delegation; the main components are voters representing Party committees, authorities, departments, branches, and organizations; the content of voter contact is mainly through written reports; dialogue and exchange with voters are still limited...

According to the Standing Committee of the Nam Dong District People's Council, the activities of the People's Council in this locality also encountered some difficulties. Typically, some delegation groups have not been really proactive in implementing programs, contents, and annual plans; the implementation of thematic supervision activities by the groups is still limited; the coordination with the commune-level authorities to organize for People's Council delegates to meet voters has not been innovated...

The story of the above obstacles does not only appear in the activities of the People's Council delegations of Huong Thuy town or Nam Dong district, but it is the reality and common difficulties in the localities.

Remember, in August 2024, the topic "Innovation and improvement of the quality of activities of People's Council delegations at all levels" was selected at the meeting of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council and the Standing Committees of the People's Councils of districts, towns, and Hue City. That shows that improving the quality of activities of People's Council delegations is of interest. At the conference, the presentation of the People's Council of Huong Thuy Town also raised quite fundamental solutions. That is, it is necessary to harmoniously resolve the structure and standards of delegates, giving priority to delegates with qualifications, capacity and working conditions. For the People's Council at the district level, it is also necessary to increase full-time delegates and pay special attention to those who are expected to be arranged as full-time delegates if elected...

The Standing Committee of the People's Council of Quang Dien district believes that it is necessary to maximize the collective strength in building, selecting content and implementing the monitoring activities of the group. Members of the People's Council delegation need to proactively propose monitoring contents, recommend the delegation to choose suitable monitoring and survey items; at the same time, the People's Council delegation must unify the assignment of tasks to members responsible for researching specific issues in implementing monitoring and survey activities...

During the Provincial People's Council meetings, Party Central Committee member, Provincial Party Secretary, Provincial People's Council Chairman, and Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation Le Truong Luu repeatedly emphasized the responsibilities and roles of the People's Council delegations.

Chairman of the Provincial People's Council Le Truong Luu said that the People's Council delegations need to enhance their responsibilities and strengthen their roles, especially in meeting voters; monitoring voters' opinions and recommendations. Research and innovate the methods and forms of the delegation's supervisory activities; monitor relevant agencies and areas that the delegations are interested in to carry out supervisory work.

Speaking at the meeting of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council and the Standing Committees of the People's Councils of districts, towns and Hue City, Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council Le Truong Luu pointed out very specific solutions in the activities of the People's Council delegates. In particular, it is necessary to focus on monitoring activities related to issues of concern to voters such as the conversion of land use purposes; land price development; progress of public investment disbursement; policies to support agricultural development... In particular, innovating the activities of questioning and answering questions, strengthening the form of questioning according to groups of topics... From there, the quality of activities of the People's Council delegations at all levels has been gradually improved.

Article and photos: LE THO