Over 280 million comments were received on the draft Resolution amending the 2013 Constitution.

(Chinhphu.vn) - More than 280 million comments from agencies, organizations and individuals were received on the draft Resolution amending and supplementing a number of articles of the 2013 Constitution, with a very high approval rate of 99.75%.

More than 280 million comments were received on the draft Resolution amending and supplementing a number of articles of the 2013 Constitution. Illustrative photo

Minister of Justice Nguyen Hai Ninh, on behalf of the Government, has just sent a Summary Report on the results of collecting opinions from the people, sectors and levels on the draft Resolution amending and supplementing a number of articles of the 2013 Constitution to the Committee for Drafting Amendments and Supplements to a Number of Articles of the 2013 Constitution.

Organizing to collect opinions seriously, publicly and democratically

The Government assessed that, in general, the organization of collecting opinions on the draft Resolution was implemented by ministries, branches and localities seriously, publicly, democratically, scientifically , on schedule, closely following Plan 05/KH-UBDTSĐBSHP of the Government's Committee for Drafting Amendments and Supplements to a Number of Articles of the 2013 Constitution as well as directives of competent agencies during the process of organizing public opinion collection. The process of organizing public opinion collection strictly followed the direction of competent authorities; ensured the leadership of Party committees at all levels; promoted the responsibility of leaders and coordination between agencies and organizations.

The forms of collecting opinions are used in a variety of ways, such as organizing conferences, seminars, and consultation forums with very different scopes (such as at the commune, district, provincial levels, and affiliated agencies and units); establishing specific addresses to receive people's contributions from many different sources; assigning their agencies and units to develop specialized topics to provide in-depth comments on relevant contents in the draft Resolution.

In particular, some localities have good and creative ways of doing things such as building an online column, people giving their opinions via Google Form and email, building a form to collect opinions from union members, association members and people coming to contact the administrative procedure settlement department to receive and return results to get opinions on the draft Resolution.

Several localities have organized thousands of conferences, seminars, and forums to solicit opinions from subjects under their management, experts, and scientists. Many ministries, sectors, and localities have proactively and actively implemented the work of soliciting opinions in a broad, democratic, scientific, and public manner.

In particular, collecting opinions through the VNeID application has facilitated people to contribute opinions, ensuring transparency, democracy, comprehensiveness and substance, helping to mobilize the intelligence and enthusiasm of all classes of people, organizations, experts and scientists at home and abroad, shortening the time for collecting opinions as well as synthesizing people's opinions on the draft Resolution.

The results of the consultation were basically guaranteed to be on schedule, with a number of ministries, branches and localities submitting reports ahead of schedule (May 30, 2025). Accordingly, the total number of comments from agencies, organizations and individuals on the draft Resolution was: 280,226,909 comments.

All opinions expressed very high approval for the content of the draft Resolution (all contents achieved approval rates of over 99%). On average, the approval rate for the contents of the draft Resolution was 99.75%.

Proposing to absorb and revise many contents of the draft Resolution

Based on the synthesis of the results of collecting opinions from the people, sectors and levels on the draft Resolution, the Government proposes to absorb and revise the draft Resolution, specifically:

On the side of the Vietnam Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations (content of amendments and supplements to Article 9 of the 2013 Constitution), the majority of comments agreed with the draft Resolution stipulating that "Vietnam Trade Union, Vietnam Farmers' Association, Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, Vietnam Women's Union, Vietnam Veterans' Association are socio-political organizations under the Vietnam Fatherland Front". The Government agrees with the majority of comments agreeing with the provisions in the draft Resolution, which is also the opinion of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front and the Drafting Committee for amendments and supplements to a number of articles of the 2013 Constitution.

Regarding the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor (content of amendments and supplements to Article 10 of the 2013 Constitution), the Government basically agrees with the content of the amendment to Article 10 of the Constitution in the draft Resolution. Accordingly, the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor is a socio-political organization of the working class and laborers, under the Vietnam Fatherland Front...

Regarding the right of socio-political organizations to submit draft laws and draft ordinances (amended and supplemented Clause 1, Article 84 of the 2013 Constitution), in agreement with many opinions of ministries, branches and localities, the Government believes that the submission of draft laws and draft ordinances demonstrates the democratic rights of socio-political organizations and should be expanded.

Therefore, the Government proposes to stipulate that the Central agencies of socio-political organizations have the right to submit draft laws to the National Assembly and draft ordinances to the National Assembly Standing Committee. Accordingly, it is proposed to amend and supplement the phrase "Central agencies of member organizations of the Front" in Clause 1, Article 84 of the 2013 Constitution to "Central agencies of socio-political organizations".

Regarding the organization of administrative units (content of amendments and supplements to Article 110 of the 2013 Constitution), the Government agrees with the content of amendments and supplements to Article 110 of the Constitution in the draft Resolution to institutionalize the policy of arranging and streamlining the organization and apparatus of the political system according to Resolution No. 60-NQ/TW. However, the Government proposes to maintain the provision in Clause 2, Article 110 of the 2013 Constitution on "The establishment, dissolution, merger, division, and adjustment of administrative unit boundaries must be consulted with local people and follow the order and procedures prescribed by law" to ensure the people's right to mastery, as a basis for people to openly and democratically discuss important contents directly related to the people.

The Government agreed to amend and supplement Articles 111, 112, and 114 of the 2013 Constitution in the direction of regulating the organization of local government including People's Councils and People's Committees; not using the term "local government level" to demonstrate the unity of the local government organization model, avoiding confusion and creating different understandings of the local government organization; reviewing and adjusting a number of regulations to conform to the organizational model of the political system after implementing arrangement and streamlining.

Regarding the right to question the Chief Justice of the People's Court and the Chief Prosecutor of the People's Procuracy (the content of amendments and supplements to Clause 2, Article 115 of the 2013 Constitution, the Government proposes to maintain the provisions of Clause 2, Article 115 of the current 2013 Constitution (without amendments or supplements), specifically: "People's Council delegates have the right to question the Chairman of the People's Committee, other members of the People's Committee, the Chief Justice of the People's Court, the Chief Prosecutor of the People's Procuracy and Heads of agencies under the People's Committee...".

This provision ensures the right to supervise compliance with the Constitution and laws at the local level, including supervising the activities of the People's Court, the People's Procuracy and other state agencies in the locality, ensuring the mechanism for controlling state power among agencies, organizations and competent persons at the local level, contributing to enhancing transparency and democracy in the operation of the state apparatus.

The results of synthesizing opinions from the people, sectors and levels show that there are many opinions suggesting continuing to maintain this mechanism and adjusting it in the direction of regulating that provincial-level People's Council delegates have the right to question the Chief Justice of the People's Court and the Chief Prosecutor of the People's Procuracy at the provincial and regional levels.

The Government also agreed to determine the effective date of the Resolution amending and supplementing a number of articles of the 2013 Constitution as July 1, 2025, in order to create a constitutional basis for implementing the Party's policies in Resolution No. 60-NQ/TW. At the same time, it agreed to stipulate the declaration of the termination of the current district-level administrative units nationwide.

Dieu Anh

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