Actively resolve voters' petitions

image-on-top(5).jpg — Overview of the discussion session of the National Assembly Standing Committee reviewing the National Assembly's report on people's petitions in March 2024. Source: quochoi.vn

Reporting at the meeting, Mr. Duong Thanh Binh - Head of the People's Aspirations Committee of the National Assembly Standing Committee (NASC) said that voters and people highly appreciate the policies of the Party, the National Assembly, and the Government that contribute to maintaining national sovereignty , stabilizing and developing the country's economy, culture, and society in an international situation with many fluctuations, difficulties, and complications.

Voters and people also expressed their trust in the Party and State in the current work of preventing and fighting corruption, which has contributed to strengthening the people's trust in the Party and State's determination to prevent and fight negative corruption, "no forbidden zones, no exceptions".

In addition, voters and people continue to express concerns about traffic violations by some young people. Saltwater intrusion and severe heat waves continue in the Mekong Delta and the Central Highlands. Serious subsidence and landslides in some localities cause great damage to people's property and housing. The infectious disease situation will continue to be unpredictable in the coming time and there will continue to be a risk of new variants appearing and spreading.

Voters and people are also worried about the lack of orders for seafood and textile processing enterprises, which increases unemployment and unstable incomes. After the Lunar New Year, students in some localities dropped out of school, especially those from ethnic minority and mountainous areas. Gambling on the internet and selling "illegible" goods in the form of seminars focused on women and the elderly. Some scams through investment capital contribution or investment loans still continue, although the authorities have intervened, but recovering lost money and overcoming the consequences is difficult.

Up to now, the People's Petition Committee has received the results of resolving and responding to 2,132 petitions out of a total of 2,216 petitions sent by voters to the 6th Session of the 15th National Assembly, with a resolution and response rate of 96.2%. Through reviewing, synthesizing and preliminary evaluating the results of resolving and responding to voters' petitions by competent agencies, the People's Petition Committee found that basically, the agencies have made efforts and actively resolved and responded to voters' petitions sent before and after the 6th Session. However, there is still a situation of slow resolution and response to voters' petitions. Up to now, although the response deadline has passed, there are still 84 voters' petitions that have not been resolved or responded to.

To help the National Assembly Standing Committee prepare a report on the results of monitoring the settlement and response to voters' petitions sent to the 6th Session, the Petition Committee organized a meeting with the Ministry of Education and Training, the Ministry of Information and Communications and the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs on some limitations in the settlement and response to voters' petitions of the ministries.

The Standing Committee of the National Assembly requested the Government and the Prime Minister to direct relevant ministries and branches to closely monitor fluctuations in supply and demand, market prices of important and essential commodities to take appropriate adjustment measures, strengthen commodity control activities, and stabilize the market. Focus on inspecting and examining gold trading enterprises, promptly handling violations in business activities and clarifying the responsibilities of organizations and individuals if there are acts of market manipulation. Have timely solutions to support localities affected by subsidence and landslides in terms of funding and solutions to handle and overcome subsidence and landslides in order to protect people's property and lives, and protect the system of traffic works and irrigation works serving production and aquaculture. Have solutions to re-plan the traffic and irrigation systems, rearrange production and population in a synchronous and effective direction.

According to the report of the Government Inspectorate and the Ministry of Public Security, in March 2024, the situation of citizens making complaints, denunciations, petitions and reflections tended to increase compared to February 2024. At the Central Citizen Reception Headquarters in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, the authorities received 246 visits with 475 citizens coming to make complaints, denunciations, petitions and reflections on 246 cases and there were 13 large petition groups. Compared to February 2024, there were 62 more citizens and 62 cases but 3 fewer large groups.

According to a summary report from localities, in March 2024, cases related to the land sector, especially the slow progress of investment projects, construction of eco-tourism areas, residential areas, clean water supply systems, illegal land exploitation, encroachment and misuse of land affecting people's lives; violations in the fields of environment, construction, traffic, urban areas, labor - employment continued to develop complicatedly. Of which, 15 cases of complaints with signs of complexity regarding security and order emerged that need to be considered and resolved by competent authorities in the coming time.

Deputy Head of the Central Citizen Reception Committee Tran Quoc Dung said that the number of citizens increased because of cases like SCB and Tan Hoang Minh Bank being brought to trial, so citizens tended to file complaints and denunciations. "The number of large groups decreased because of good coordination between the authorities and localities, which predicted that there would be large groups of citizens going to the central government to file complaints, so they would be persuaded and encouraged, and many localities would receive them locally, so large groups of citizens going to Hanoi decreased," said Mr. Dung.

Concluding the session, Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Tran Quang Phuong said that the Standing Committee of the National Assembly highly appreciated the Government's close direction of the monthly work based on the conclusions of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly. The situation of people's petitions in general, the settlement of voters' opinions and recommendations, complaints and denunciations has improved compared to previous sessions. However, given the development of the socio-economic situation, a number of cases have been brought for consideration and settlement, the land situation, and people's complaints are expected to increase.

Although the number of large groups has decreased, the number of tasks has still increased. Mr. Phuong suggested that it is necessary to continue to have better forecasts to direct the petition sector in general and handle complaints and denunciations more closely.

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