10 grounds for considering the resignation of leading and managing civil servants from August 2026

Legal Consulting Department of Lao Dong Newspaper answers:

Article 22 of Decree 300/2026/ND-CP (effective from August 1, 2026) stipulates the amendment and supplementation of Article 52 of Decree No. 170/2025/ND-CР, stipulating as follows:

2. Leading and managing civil servants voluntarily resign and are considered for resignation when there is one of the following grounds:

a) Because they themselves find limited leadership and management capacity or no longer have enough prestige to complete assigned responsibilities and tasks;

b) Having over 50% of low confidence votes at the voting session as prescribed;

c) For other legitimate reasons of an individual;

d) Being the head of agencies, organizations, and units under their management, directly in charge, or directly subordinates who have committed serious corruption, wastefulness, and negativity but not to the extent that they must be considered and disciplined according to regulations;

d) During the term of office, there are 02 consecutive years of being classified as not completing tasks;

e) Having acts of violating political qualities, ethics, lifestyle and being concluded and evaluated by competent authorities causing public outrage, adversely affecting the reputation of organizations and individuals;

g) To let relatives (wife, husband, children) violate state laws; fall into social evils and be concluded and evaluated by competent authorities, causing public outrage, adversely affecting the reputation of themselves and agencies, organizations, and units;

h) To allow others to take advantage of their positions and powers for personal gain and be concluded and evaluated by competent authorities, causing serious consequences and public outrage, adversely affecting personal and organizational reputation, unless they themselves do not know;

i) Not daring to do, not daring to take responsibility, shirking, avoiding responsibility, not performing work under their authority according to assigned functions and tasks and being concluded and evaluated by competent authorities causing very serious consequences, bad public opinion, and resentment among cadres, party members and people;

k) Other cases according to Party regulations or legal regulations.

Thus, from August 1, 2026, leading and managing civil servants voluntarily resign and are considered for resignation in cases according to the above regulations.