Thenceforth...
In the early days after the General Election (January 6, 1946), in the context of widespread and fierce war, the National Assembly Standing Committee was the agency that regularly worked alongside the Government under the leadership of the Party Central Committee. At that time, the supporting agency was called the Office of the National Assembly Standing Committee. According to archive file No. 276 at the National Archives Center III, at that time the Office only had about 18 cadres and employees. These were comrades selected from Central agencies and were all people with revolutionary qualities, good character and ethics, dedicated and devoted to performing their duties.
Although the force is still very small and the level is limited, from the beginning, the Office staff has helped and advised on issues of great significance:
On April 16, 1946, the Office advised the National Assembly Standing Committee to participate in organizing a delegation of 10 National Assembly deputies, led by comrade Pham Van Dong, Deputy Head of the National Assembly Standing Committee, to work in France from April 25 to May 16, 1946 with the mission of making the French people and the majority of French politicians clearly understand the struggle for independence of the Vietnamese people and the desire for friendly relations between the two Vietnamese and French peoples on the basis of recognizing Vietnam's desire for independence and unification...
Also during this time, in the South and South Central regions, the French army continued to provoke and sabotage the Preliminary Agreement (March 6, 1946). In order to have a legal basis for the struggle, the Office helped the National Assembly Standing Committee draft a document , the National Appeal, with the basic content of opposing the French army's betrayal of the implementation of the Preliminary Agreement. The National Assembly Standing Committee's appeal was enthusiastically responded to, trusted and respected by the people.
On May 3, 1946, the Office served the National Assembly Standing Committee to establish a working group led by priest Pham Ba Truc and representatives of the Government to go to the Central region to explain to the people the national union policy of the Ho Chi Minh Government. Then, on August 14, 1946, the Office served the National Assembly Standing Committee to establish a delegation of National Assembly representatives to the South Central region to console the soldiers who were fighting bravely and tenaciously on the fronts. Also during this time, the Office helped the National Assembly Standing Committee direct the drafting of the Declaration to call on the people to unite closely, to crush all enemy plots to divide the ethnic groups...
In just 8 months (the period between the two sessions of the 1st National Assembly, from March to November 1946), the Office of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly advised and served 3 Subcommittees of the National Assembly to review and comment on 98 draft Decrees sent by the Government. The vast majority of the opinions of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly on the draft Decrees were accepted by the Government, of which the most accepted were the draft Decrees on labor, Decrees oneducation ...
Right from the beginning, with a spirit of revolutionary enthusiasm, you have worked with utmost dedication and high responsibility, thus helping the National Assembly Standing Committee thoroughly resolve many important tasks. That is also the premise for the Office of the National Assembly (VPQH) in the following stages to learn, gain experience, and improve the quality of consulting and serving the National Assembly in each term...
...to this day
Currently, in addition to activities serving the working conditions of the National Assembly, strategic advice according to the functions of the National Assembly is still a huge amount of work for the National Assembly Office.
First of all, regarding legislative work advice : In terms of quantity alone, if in the first 7 terms of the National Assembly (from 1946 to 1987), the Office of the National Assembly only advised on the drafting of 29 laws and 3 Constitutions (the 1946, 1959 and 1980 Constitutions), then in the following 8 terms of the National Assembly, starting from the 8th term (the first term of the renovation process) to present (February 2024), with the effective advice and service of the Office of the National Assembly, the National Assembly has drafted and passed 461 laws and 2 Constitutions (the 1992 Constitution, amended and supplemented by a number of articles in 2001 and the 2013 Constitution). In particular, from the beginning of the 21st century until now, the 5 National Assembly terms (from the 11th term to the middle of the 15th term) have built and promulgated 338 laws, with each term building and promulgating an average of more than 80 laws.
As for the current XVth Term, as of the end of the Fifth Extraordinary Session (January 2024), according to our records, the National Assembly has developed and passed 30 laws, 70 resolutions and commented on 45 other draft laws... In the 6-stage law-making process, the Office of the National Assembly has advised on 4 very important stages, which are the Law and Ordinance Development Program; reviewing draft laws and ordinances; serving the National Assembly Standing Committee in giving comments on drafts to be submitted to the National Assembly; and serving the National Assembly in receiving, revising and passing laws.
Similarly, in providing advice on monitoring activities, the Office of the National Assembly has completed many specific tasks, including three very important types of work.
Firstly, advise the National Assembly and the National Assembly Standing Committee to effectively implement all six forms of supreme supervision of the National Assembly at the session according to the law (except for the form of establishing a temporary committee), especially highly effective are the forms of supervision by taking a vote of confidence and questioning and answering questions.
Second, advise the National Assembly to accept the form of thematic supervision (a form of supervision with many effects), so this form has been defined by law as one of the seven supreme forms of supervision of the National Assembly.
Third , regularly innovate the form of supervision of questioning activities, including re-questioning and overall questioning. Conduct re-supervision, combine different forms of supervision, and overall supervision to exercise control over power in the activities of the Socialist Rule of Law State. Since then, almost all members of the Government and all heads of state agencies have answered questions in each supervision in the form of questioning. Therefore, many questioning issues have achieved the motto of "going to the bottom" of each issue...
With the third function of the National Assembly - deciding on important issues of the country, the Office of the National Assembly has advised on the direction of implementing the strategic guidelines of the Party and the State to achieve the highest effectiveness and efficiency. Accordingly, during the war, all decisions of the National Assembly were aimed at providing the greatest human and material support to the great frontline in the South and firmly protecting the North - the great rear of the great frontline; liberating the South, unifying the country. Since the completion of national reunification, the decisions of the National Assembly have focused on industrializing and modernizing the country, implementing Uncle Ho's sacred testament, and building a peaceful, unified, independent, democratic and prosperous Vietnam . And now, the Office of the National Assembly continues to advise the National Assembly to decide on solutions to work with the whole country to implement the goals set by the 13th National Party Congress, which are: By 2025, our country will be a developing country with modern industry, surpassing the low-middle income level; by 2030, it will be a developing country with modern industry and high-middle income; by 2045, it will become a developed country with high income.
Strategic consulting is a difficult, complicated, time-consuming, and intellectually labor-intensive type of work, but the Office of the National Assembly has been striving and making the highest efforts to fulfill its responsibilities before the National Assembly.
Talking about the efforts of cadres, civil servants, and employees of the Office of the National Assembly, at the conference summarizing the work on December 28, 2023, the Secretary General of the National Assembly, Chairman of the Office of the National Assembly, cited the "telling" numbers: advising on the organization of more than 3,000 meetings, working sessions, conferences, and seminars, including 5 National Assembly sessions, 15 meetings of the National Assembly Standing Committee, 8 important conferences of the National Assembly Standing Committee, 25 meetings and conferences of the National Assembly Party Delegation, 4 thematic supervision delegations of the National Assembly, the National Assembly Standing Committee, 12 delegations of the National Assembly Chairman, Vice Chairmen of the National Assembly, 8 high-level delegations - the level of the National Assembly Chairman; advising on the successful organization of the 9th Global Conference of Young Parliamentarians; the Vietnam Socio-Economic Forum in 2023, the Children's National Assembly Mock Session, the 1st Labor Forum. Consolidated 50 legal documents, updated 2 Coded topics; issued 27 documents announcing conclusions and reports on work results of National Assembly leaders, issued 34 announcements of conclusions of leaders of the National Assembly Office...
Indeed, the Office of the National Assembly has a mountain of work, which is difficult to weigh, measure, and quantify fully with the level of "urgent all year round, urgent in all four seasons" . We only know that, from leaders to cadres, civil servants, and workers, they are always aware of their responsibilities, diligently and devotedly working (doing all the work, not just all the working time of the day)...
Practically celebrating the 78th anniversary of its Traditional Day, in parallel with the implementation of its statutory duties, the Office of the National Assembly is urgently organizing the research of more than 20 consulting projects for the National Assembly and the whole country to prepare for the 80th anniversary of the formation and development of the Vietnamese National Assembly (January 6, 1946 - January 6, 2026) and prepare (with fundamental innovation content) for the election of deputies to the 16th National Assembly and People's Councils at all levels for the 2026-2031 term.
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