Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra said that after the Politburo's meeting to agree on the policy of rearranging and reorganizing administrative units at all levels and building a model of organizing local governments at both levels, the Government Party Committee submitted a project to collect opinions from ministries, branches and localities, then synthesized and reported to the Central Executive Committee, expected in mid-April 2025, VNA reported.
After the Central Conference, there will be a national conference to implement the merger of provincial-level administrative units and rearrange commune-level administrative units.
Thus, the task of ministries and branches is to focus on issuing relevant guiding documents according to their authority and responsibility, as a basis for the implementation of mergers and arrangement after the Central Conference.
Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra said that this is not difficult because she has experience in arranging district and commune-level administrative units in previous times, now she only continues to adjust, expand, and supplement clearly and in line with the scale of merging provincial-level administrative units and rearranging commune-level administrative units.
Notably, the Minister of Home Affairs said: After the Politburo meeting, all related contents and the number of provincial administrative units that must be reorganized and merged are clear. At the same time, it is also clear what the model of local government at two levels (provincial and sub-provincial governance) is like, how to reorganize commune-level administrative units, also known as grassroots levels, to ensure".
According to the Minister of Home Affairs, there are currently 10,035 commune-level administrative units, and in the coming time, they will be reorganized to a scale of only about 2,000 communes, each commune is "nearly a small district". Matters related to the reorganization of commune-level administrative units are under the authority of the National Assembly Standing Committee. This can be done right after the Central Executive Committee Conference.
Therefore, ministries and branches must focus on guiding all relevant documents. This must be done very urgently, the ministries must send to the Ministry of Home Affairs early to prepare for the national conference after the Central Executive Committee conference.
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 building 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 reports to the Ministry of Justice proposing that the Government 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.
