Dialogue between local authorities at the commune level and the people

The Lao Dong Newspaper Legal Consulting Office replied:

Article 24 of the Law on Organization of Local Government 2025 (effective from March 1, 2025) stipulates the dialogue between local authorities at the commune level and the people as follows:

1. Every year, local authorities at the commune level are responsible for organizing at least one dialogue conference with the people in person, online or through legal social networks as prescribed by law to discuss the situation of local government operations and issues related to the rights and obligations of citizens in the locality. In case of direct organization, if the scale of commune-level administrative units is too large, exchanges and dialogues can be organized with the People in each cluster of villages and residential groups.

2. The People's Committees at the commune level are responsible for coordinating with the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee at the same level to organize a dialogue conference as prescribed in Clause 1 of this Article, together with the Standing Representative of the People's Council to chair the dialogue conference; invite representatives of the Party Committee, the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee and socio-political organizations at the same level to participate in the dialogue conference and must notify the media about the time, location, content and methods of attending the dialogue conference with the People no later than 07 days before the conference.

3. The content of the dialogue conference results with the People must be notified by the People's Committee to the People through mass media, posted at the headquarters of the local government at the commune level and sent to the Village Heads and Heads of Residential Groups no later than 10 days from the date of the conference.

Thus, from March 2025, the dialogue between local authorities at the commune level and the people will be conducted according to the above regulations.