On the morning of June 11, the National Assembly discussed in groups the arrangement of provincial-level administrative units in 2025.
Speaking, Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra said that we are witnessing a revolution in organizing a synchronous and thorough apparatus. This is a comprehensive restructuring, not only in terms of organizational space but also in terms of institutional space, culture, economy...
As people involved, we all feel like we are going to a place with space for change, promoting development, motivation, confidence and hope. The entire political system is making efforts.
Facing a huge workload, we have overcome it all because we have high confidence, expectations and political determination, the minister shared his feelings during this final period.
The commander of the Home Affairs sector commented that this is the biggest revolution since the founding of the country. Regarding the implementation of the apparatus arrangement and the building of a 2-level local government model, Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra explained that this is a new thing but in line with the general development trend of the times, many countries in the world.
In particular, this is the time to restructure the administrative system, in line with the development trend of the country entering a new era, the minister emphasized.
Sharing about the important thing in the arrangement of provincial-level administrative units this time, the minister mentioned the huge change in thinking, reflected in not only the arrangement of adjacent administrative units, but calculation based on the natural territorial shape, especially towards the large ocean.
From there, reorganize in the direction of making the most of the marine economic advantages, integration advantages, and socio-economic development advantages of the regions. Calculating the plan is strong enough for the locality to become a major economic center not only in Vietnam but also towards the region and the world.
Therefore, the Politburo has carefully, closely and methodically studied and come to the arrangement of 52 provinces and cities to 23 provinces and kept 11 provinces meeting all standards to make 34 provinces and cities.
In the general direction of the Politburo, from July 1, the entire political system is determined to operate a new administrative unit with a two-level government. The Politburo, the Central Executive Committee, and the Government have prepared all conditions.
In particular, it is necessary to mention localities that have made efforts to prepare for arrangement, merger, and implementation of requirements to implement the two-level local government model.
After working in the localities, General Secretary To Lam is setting a determined goal at the same time, officially operating the local government at both levels.
At the same time, the resolution and decision of the competent authority will be announced to implement as the Resolution of the National Assembly on the arrangement of provincial-level administrative units in 2025, the decision on the establishment of a party organization, the government, the team of cadres, civil servants and public employees of 34 provinces and cities.
With the remaining time requirement being very short, with the high consensus of today's delegates, the minister hopes that from July 1, it will be implemented synchronously to operate local governments at both levels.
After implementing the provincial-level arrangement, the minister said that the remaining workload is very large to focus on solving.
The head of the internal affairs sector mentioned that the arrangement of the team of cadres, civil servants, and public employees is a huge problem. Recently, it has been implemented, and it is necessary to calculate this issue well.
