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Enhancing implementation of democracy at grassroots level
Enhancing implementation of democracy at grassroots level
National Assembly's legislators discussed the draft Law on Implementation of Democracy at Grassroots Level at its ongoing third session yesterday.
The bill comprises seven chapters and 74 articles, adding many new contents to existing regulations in the field, including those on the implementation of democracy in agencies.
National Assembly deputies agreed on the necessity of promulgating this important law and also discussed improving the quality, uniformity, and ensuring the consistency and feasibility of the provisions of this draft law with other laws.
The draft law has new contents which stipulate the rights and obligations of citizens, cadres, civil servants, public employees and employees in the implementation of grassroots democracy.
Under the draft, people have the right to complain, initiate lawsuits and denounce violations relating to the implementation of democracy at the grassroots levels. People have the obligation to propose and report to competent authorities when detecting violations in its implementation.
Minister of Home Affairs Phạm Thị Thanh Trà said the draft law was developed to institutionalise the motto “People know, people discuss, people do, and people monitor”.
The law also aims to resolve the relationship between implementing democracy and strengthening the rule of law and ensuring social discipline, she said.
And democracy must be associated with people's lives to promote socio-economic development and ensure national defence and security.
The delegates also raised difficulties in implementing democracy in enterprises when the law stipulates that employees are allowed to give opinions, discuss, decide and check.
More detailed regulations on democracy in enterprises were also needed, they said.
This is also a law related to many current laws, so it is necessary to ensure consistency, synchronisation, science, feasibility, and accessibility, the minister of Home Affairs said.
Also yesterday, the NA was scheduled to opine on the draft revised Law on Domestic Violence Prevention and Control. The amendments aim to improve regulations so as to better protect human rights under the 2013 Constitution, enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of State and social institutions as well as families’ role in this issue, thereby upholding sound traditional cultural values and boosting socio-economic development in the new context.
Consisting of six chapters with 62 articles, the draft revised law focuses on measures to prevent domestic violence, and protect and assist victims; create coordination mechanisms and conditions for implementing domestic violence prevention and control; and encourage the socialisation in this field.
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All comments [ 16 ]
Yes, we need more attention to heads of residential areas and villages, and working groups of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, and consideration of the implementation of democracy in both State-owned and non-State enterprises.
The law deals with the links between the practice of democracy, and enhancing the rule of law and ensuring social disciplines.
Democracy should go with livelihood, education and social welfare of people in order to boost socio-economic development and ensure national defence and security.
As the bill is associated with many existing laws, overlaps should be avoided, all the compiling agency to ensure that the document is feasible, pragmatic and accessible.
We need measures on integrating gender equality into specific regulations, and citing specific data to explain the reasons for choosing each policy solution.
In Vietnam the National Assembly is the highest representative organ, with the power to amend the constitution and enact legislation.
Democratic centralism is a Marxist-Leninist construction and is the basis for the Vietnamese socialist orientation.
The people are encouraged to make suggestions and give opinions about the work of the State.
Through the participation of the people in varying aspects of public affairs, the Vietnamese government and some academics argue that Vietnam has both a direct and representative democracy where democracy is the source of state authority.
Direct democracy is practiced through: participation by individuals in voting for members to the Local People’s Council and the National Assembly; allowing the people to discuss, monitor, inspect and place opinions on the work of the local governments as is provided for in the grassroots democracy initiative.
Democratic practice is not only a target, motivation but also a “key” to gather great solidarity and mobilize the combined strength as well as promote the creativeness of the people.
The leaders can clearly understand thoughts, aspirations and urgent needs from people in order to adjust the guidelines, policies, management and operation in line with reality.
Activities of the Fatherland Front and people mass organizations should be focused on the propaganda and mobilization of the people to participate in learning regulations, monitoring the implementation of specific local projects.
Promoting democracy is associated with the rules of law, strictly handling negative cases, corruptions, wastes and resolutely handling cases of exploiting democracy, ethnicity and religion combating against the Party and State, causing disorder in security and acts of violating the people’s democracy.
Vietnamese citizens are able to choose their representatives to the National Assembly and also their representatives to the leadership positions in the People’s Council of the Communes, Districts and Provinces.
Always put people at the centre!
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