On February 25, in Hanoi, the Law and Justice Committee in coordination with the Ethnic Council organized a Workshop on "Contacting comments on the draft Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Supervisory Activities of the National Assembly and People's Councils".
Chairman of the Law and Justice Committee Hoang Thanh Tung emphasized that in order to promptly institutionalize the Party's policies, meet the requirements of innovation, improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the operation of elected bodies, the draft Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Supervisory Activities of the National Assembly and People's Councils has been included by the National Assembly in the 2024 Law and Ordinance Development Program (submitted to the National Assembly for comments at the 8th session - October 2024, approved at the 9th session - May 2025).
Regarding the concept of supervision, Associate Professor, Dr. Le Minh Thong suggested that the concept of supervision of the National Assembly and People's Councils should be clearly defined in the Law to clarify the nature and goals of the supervision activities of the National Assembly and People's Councils, associated with the requirement to build a rule of law state in Resolution 27 of the 6th Central Conference, 13th tenure.
Or in other words, it is necessary to affirm that the supervision of the National Assembly and People's Councils is a method of controlling power for state agencies under the supervision of the National Assembly and People's Councils.
Regarding the concept of Supreme Supervision, Associate Professor, Dr. Le Minh Thong noted that it is necessary to study and demonstrate more clearly the content of Supreme Supervision in the terminology of the Law on Supervisory Activities to demonstrate the nature of Supreme Supervision as supervision at the highest level of power relations, focusing on compliance with the Constitution, laws, and Resolutions of the National Assembly in performing the tasks, authority, and responsibilities of executive, judicial, and central-level independent constitutional institutions.
Regarding this content, some opinions also suggested that the supervision concept should be studied and revised in the direction of more clearly defining the supervisory subjects, the subjects subject to supervision, the supervisory tools and the supervisory goals, and the supervisory consequences; for the content of "s ultimate supervision", it is necessary to clearly understand the subjects subject to supervision; have a new approach to the functions and highest supervisory authority of the National Assembly.
In his speech, Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Tran Quang Phuong noted that the determination of the scope and subjects of supreme supervision must be based on the spirit of Resolution 27-NQ/TW on continuing to build and perfect the Socialist Republic of Vietnam's rule of law state in the new period.
Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Tran Quang Phuong emphasized that it is necessary to thoroughly grasp the spirit of innovation in law-making such as: The Law only regulates general issues, framework issues, and issues under the authority of the National Assembly.
At the same time, it is necessary to both manage and create; the issue of decentralization of power (locality decides - locality does - locality is responsible); and fight against negativity and waste in law-making; It is necessary to closely follow the viewpoint of "What is ripe, clear, and has high consensus" to legalize.
