Details of the Draft Resolution amending and supplementing several articles of Vietnam's Constitution

According to the National Assembly’s draft, the specific amendments and supplements to the 2013 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam are as follows:

1. Amend and supplement Article 9 as follows:

1. The Vietnam Fatherland Front is a political alliance and voluntary union of political, socio-political, and social organizations, as well as prominent individuals across social classes, ethnic groups, religions, and overseas Vietnamese communities.

The Vietnam Fatherland Front forms part of the political system of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and operates under the leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam. It serves as the political foundation of the people’s government; mobilizes and strengthens national unity; expresses the people’s will and aspirations; encourages their role as masters of the country; represents and protects their legitimate rights and interests; practices democracy; builds social consensus; monitors and critiques social issues; conveys public opinions and recommendations to state agencies; takes part in building the Party, the State, and people-to-people diplomacy; and helps build and safeguard the Fatherland.

2. The Vietnam Trade Union, the Vietnam Farmers’ Association, the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, the Vietnam Women’s Union, and the Vietnam Veterans’ Association are socio-political organizations under the Vietnam Fatherland Front. These groups form voluntarily, represent and protect their members’ legitimate rights and interests, and operate uniformly within the Vietnam Fatherland Front. They coordinate and act with other member organizations of the Democratic Consultative Front under the leadership of the Vietnam Fatherland Front.

The Vietnam Fatherland Front, its member organizations, and other social organizations act within the bounds of the Constitution and laws, the Vietnam Fatherland Front charter, and the charters of each organization. The State supports and creates favorable conditions for these organizations to carry out their activities.

2. Amend and supplement Article 10 as follows:

Vietnam Trade Union is a socio-political organization of the working class and laborers, directly under the Vietnam Fatherland Front; represents, cares for and protects the legitimate and legal rights and interests of union members and laborers; is a representative of laborers at the national level in labor relations and international relations on trade unions; participates in state management, socio-economic management; participates in inspection, supervision and monitoring of the activities of state agencies, organizations, units and enterprises on issues related to the rights and obligations of laborers; propagates and mobilizes laborers to study, improve their qualifications and professional skills, comply with the law, build and defend the Fatherland.

3. Amend and supplement Clause 1, Article 84 as follows:

1. The President, the National Assembly Standing Committee, the Nationalities Council, the National Assembly Committees, the Government, the Supreme People’s Court, the Supreme People’s Procuracy, the State Audit Office, and the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front have the right to submit draft laws to the National Assembly and draft ordinances to the National Assembly Standing Committee.

4. Amend and supplement Article 110 as follows:

1. The Socialist Republic of Vietnam’s administrative units include provinces, centrally run cities, and administrative units below provinces and centrally run cities.

2. Special administrative-economic units established by the National Assembly.

3. The National Assembly prescribes the types of administrative units below provinces and centrally run cities, and the order and procedures for establishing, dissolving, merging, dividing, and adjusting administrative unit boundaries.

5. Amend and supplement Clause 2, Article 111 as follows:

2. Local government consists of People’s Councils and People’s Committees organized in administrative units suitable to the characteristics of rural, urban, island, and special administrative-economic units prescribed by the National Assembly.

6. Amend and supplement Clause 2, Article 112 as follows:

2. The tasks and powers of local governments are determined by the division of authority between central and local state agencies and local governments at each level.

7. Amend and supplement Clause 1, Article 114 as follows:

1. The People’s Committee, elected by the People’s Council at the same level, is the executive body of the People’s Council, the local state administrative agency, responsible for the People’s Council and the higher-level state administrative agency.

8. Amend and supplement Clause 2, Article 115 as follows:

2. People’s Council delegates have the right to question the Chairman of the People’s Committee, other members of the People’s Committee, and heads of agencies under the People’s Committee. The person questioned must answer before the People’s Council. People’s Council delegates have the right to make recommendations to state agencies, organizations, and units in the locality. The heads of these agencies, organizations, and units are responsible for receiving delegates, considering, and resolving the delegates’ recommendations.

According to the draft, this Resolution takes effect on July 1, 2025. From this date, district-level administrative units nationwide will cease to operate.

When perfecting the organizational apparatus of agencies after implementing the administrative unit arrangement and ending the operation of district-level administrative units in 2025, the election of the positions of Chairman, Vice Chairman of the People’s Council, Head of the People’s Council Committees, Chairman, Vice Chairman, and member of the People’s Committee in the administrative unit formed after the arrangement will not be held; the Head and Deputy Head of the National Assembly Delegation of provinces and centrally run cities formed after the arrangement will not be elected.

Based on the announcement of the Party Committee with authority to manage cadres, the Standing Committee of the National Assembly appoints the Chairman, Vice Chairman, Heads of the People’s Council Committees, Heads and Deputy Heads of the National Assembly delegations of the provinces and centrally run cities formed after the reorganization.

The Prime Minister appoints the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the People’s Committees of the provinces and centrally run cities formed after the reorganization.

The Standing Committee of the Provincial People’s Council shall appoint members of the People’s Committee of the province or centrally run city formed after the rearrangement and the Chairman, Vice Chairman, Heads of the People’s Council Committees, and Chairman and Vice Chairman of the People’s Committee of the commune-level administrative unit formed after the rearrangement.

The Standing Committee of the People’s Council at the commune level shall appoint members of the People’s Committee of the commune-level administrative unit formed after the rearrangement. In exceptional cases, it is permitted to appoint personnel who are not People’s Council delegates to hold leadership positions of the People’s Council at the provincial and commune levels formed after the rearrangement.