1. In every revolutionary stage, our Party and State always attach special importance to improving the leadership capacity, governing capacity and fighting strength of the Party, and enhancing the efficiency, effectiveness and efficiency of the political system.
This is one of the key factors that makes the Communist Party of Vietnam a great helmsman, an elite captain leading the Vietnamese revolutionary ship through all rapids, achieving one victory after another.
The strategic convergence point after 40 years of national renovation is bringing a historic opportunity to bring the country into an era of development, an era of national advancement; it also poses an urgent requirement to resolutely carry out the revolution to build a truly streamlined political system that operates effectively and efficiently, meeting the requirements and tasks in the new revolutionary period.
The overall model of the political system organization of our country from 1945 to present has been basically stable, consisting of 3 blocks (Party, State, Vietnam Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations).
With the operating mechanism of the Party leading, the State managing, and the people being the masters, the organizational apparatus of each bloc has been adjusted to meet the revolutionary requirements of each historical period.
Since the 6th Central Conference of the XNUMXth tenure up to now, the concept of "Political system" has been officially used, marking the development of the Party's thinking and awareness of the requirements and tasks for the political system in the period of innovation.
Entering the period of promoting the cause of innovation, industrialization and modernization of the country, stemming from the special importance and urgent requirements from the country's urgent development practice, through many congresses, especially in recent congresses, the documents of the 9th, XNUMXth and XNUMXth Party Congresses have emphasized specific tasks on streamlining the organizational apparatus or researching and building a comprehensive model of the organizational apparatus of the political system in the new period.
Since the 8th Congress, our Party has continuously issued many resolutions and conclusions to lead the implementation of the policy of innovation, streamlining the organization of the political system to make it more compact and effective, such as: Resolution of the 10th Central Conference, 17th tenure, on continuing to build and perfect the Socialist Republic of Vietnam; Resolution No. 22-NQ/TW, dated February 9, 2007 of the 12th Central Executive Committee on innovation and perfecting the organization of Party agencies, orientations for innovation of the organization of the State apparatus, the Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations; Resolution No. 11-NQ/TW, dated August 1, 2007 of the 18th Central Executive Committee on promoting administrative reform, improving the effectiveness and efficiency of management of the State apparatus; Resolution No. 50-NQ/TW, dated February 2, 2008 of the 18th Central Executive Committee on improving the leadership capacity, fighting strength of grassroots party organizations and the quality of cadres and party members; Resolution No. 37-NQ/TW, dated January 16, 2012 of the 2020th Central Executive Committee on a number of urgent issues on Party building; Resolution No. 63-NQ/TW, dated June 3, 2017 of the 2020th Central Executive Committee on perfecting the socialist-oriented market economic institution; Resolution No. 64-NQ/TW, dated October 25, 2017 of the 62th Central Executive Committee on innovation and reorganization of the political system; Conclusion No. 39-KL/TW, dated February 28, 2023 of the Politburo on continuing to implement Resolution No. XNUMX; Conclusion No. XNUMX-KL/TW, dated February 2, 2009 of the XNUMXth Central Executive Committee on continuing to promote the implementation of the cadre strategy until XNUMX; Conclusion No. XNUMX-KL/TW, dated May 27, 2013 of the XNUMXth Central Executive Committee on a number of issues on reforming salary policies, social insurance, preferential allowances for people with meritorious services and reform orientation until XNUMX; Conclusion No. XNUMX-KL/TW, dated May 28, 2013 of the XNUMXth Central Executive Committee on a number of issues on continuing to innovate and perfect the political system from the Central level; Conclusion No. XNUMX-KL/TW, dated December 8, 2009 of the Politburo on continuing to innovate the content and methods of operation of the Vietnam Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations; Resolution No. XNUMX-NQ/TW, dated April 17, 2015 of the Politburo on streamlining the payroll and restructuring the team of cadres, civil servants and public employees.
Implementing the Party's resolutions and conclusions, the system of Party organizations at all levels, the State apparatus from the Central to the grassroots level, the organization of the Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations have been gradually innovated, promoting their effectiveness and efficiency; the functions, tasks and working relationships of each organization in the political system have been more reasonably defined and adjusted, gradually meeting the requirements of building and perfecting the socialist rule-of-law State and developing a socialist-oriented market economy.
The political system is basically stable, in accordance with the Platform and Constitution; ensuring the leadership role of the Party, the management role of the State, and promoting the mastery of the people.
Through the role and strength of the political system under the leadership of the Party, we have firmly protected the achievements of the revolution; maintained political stability, protected the Party and the government; developed the socio-economy, and constantly improved the material, cultural and spiritual life of the people.
Institutional innovations, focusing on innovation in the organization of the political system, are one of the basic conditions that determine the great achievements after 40 years of national renovation.
After 7 years of implementing Resolution No. 18 dated October 25, 2017 of the XNUMXth Central Executive Committee on innovation and reorganization of the political system, we have achieved a number of important results, initially creating positive changes in innovation and reorganization of the apparatus, improving the operational efficiency of agencies, units and organizations in the political system.
However, the awareness and actions of some Party committees, Party organizations, leadership groups, and heads of some agencies, organizations, units, and localities are not complete, not profound, not determined, not resolute, the arrangement of the organizational apparatus is not synchronous, comprehensive, and the streamlining of staff is not linked with restructuring... some ministries and branches still take on local tasks, leading to the existence of a request-grant mechanism, which easily gives rise to corruption, waste, and negativity...
Therefore, up to now, the organizational structure of the political system is still cumbersome, with many levels and focal points; the effectiveness and efficiency of operations have not met the requirements and tasks; the functions, tasks, powers, organizations, and working relationships between many agencies and departments are not really clear, still overlapping; the division of responsibilities, decentralization, and delegation of powers are not synchronous and reasonable, there are places where people make excuses, places where they miss out or do not invest appropriately...
The quality of advice and proposals of a Party agency or organization to the Central Committee, the Politburo, and the Secretariat in some areas is still limited; the capacity to coordinate, guide, and organize implementation throughout the Party has not met the requirements; the demarcation of the multi-sectoral and multi-field management scope of ministries is not thorough; some tasks are interconnected, linked together, or in the same field but assigned to many ministries for management.
The organizational structure of some levels and sectors has remained basically unchanged in terms of quantity, and the arrangement has not been associated with improving effectiveness and efficiency, determining job positions, and restructuring the staff.
The apparatus within ministries and ministerial-level agencies still has many levels, some levels have unclear legal status; affiliated units have increased legal status, increasing the situation of "ministries within ministries".
Streamlining the payroll only focuses on reducing quantity, not yet associated with improving quality and restructuring the staff.
The shortcomings, limitations, slowness, and lack of determination in implementing the policy of innovation and restructuring the political system's apparatus have caused many serious consequences.
The cumbersome apparatus causes waste and hinders development, which is one of the reasons why many of the Party's policies are slow to be put into practice or some policies are not implemented or are implemented in practice.
Overlapping and unclear division of functions and tasks lead to unclear responsibilities, "encroachment", obstruction, even "neutralization" of each other, reducing initiative and creativity, leading to low labor productivity and work efficiency, shirking of responsibility, negativity, hindering development, causing annoyance, reducing effectiveness and efficiency of operations.
The intermediate level leads to time wasted through "multiple doors" of administrative procedures, causing obstacles, even creating bottlenecks, and missing development opportunities.
The cost of operating a large organizational system reduces resources for development investment, ensuring national defense and security, and improving the material and spiritual life of the people.
Compared to the great changes of the country after 40 years of renovation, the development of the socialist rule of law state and scientific and technological achievements; the organization of the political system of our country, although it has been renovated in some parts, is still basically following the model designed decades ago, many issues are no longer suitable for new conditions, which is contrary to the law of development; creating the mentality of "Saying does not match doing".
2. The 100th anniversary of our country under the leadership of the Party and the 100th anniversary of the founding of the country is not far away. To achieve strategic goals, it not only requires extraordinary efforts and outstanding efforts, but also does not allow us to be slow, lax, inaccurate, unsynchronized, or uncoordinated in every step. To do so, it is necessary to urgently carry out a revolution in streamlining the organization and apparatus of the political system, with a number of key tasks as follows:
First: build and organize the implementation throughout the political system of the overall model of the organization of the Vietnamese political system to meet the requirements and tasks in the new revolutionary stage.
Focus on summarizing 7 years of implementing Resolution No. 18 of the 6th Conference of the XNUMXth Central Executive Committee "Some issues on continuing to innovate and reorganize the apparatus of the political system to be streamlined and operate effectively and efficiently", seriously and comprehensively assessing the situation and results achieved, advantages, disadvantages, limitations, obstacles, causes and lessons learned in the process of implementing the resolution; proposing and recommending to the Politburo and the Central Executive Committee on innovation and reorganization of the apparatus of the political system.
The review must be conducted objectively, democratically, scientifically, specifically, deeply, receptively, and closely following the practical situation, thereby proposing a new organizational model, assessing the advantages and impacts when implementing the new model, closely following the Constitution, the Political Platform, the Party Charter, the Party's principles, the Resolutions of the Central Committee... ensuring comprehensiveness, synchronization, connectivity, one agency performing many tasks, one task assigned to only one agency to preside over and take primary responsibility; thoroughly overcoming overlaps in functions and tasks, division in areas and fields; limiting intermediary organizations; clearly defining specific functions, tasks, and responsibilities on the basis of Party spirit, rationality, and legality.
Second: focus on perfecting the system in the spirit of "running and lining up at the same time" to quickly put the Party's policies into practice.
Review relevant legal regulations to proactively prepare for amendments, supplements or new issuances in accordance with regulations, ensuring that the Party's policies are implemented as quickly as possible after being unanimously approved by the Central Committee.
Focusing on perfecting the law on the organization and operation of agencies in the political system, associated with the spirit of promoting decentralization and delegation of power with the motto "locality decides, locality does, locality is responsible", the Central Government, the Government and the National Assembly strengthen institutional perfection, play a creative role and strengthen inspection, supervision and maximum reform of administrative procedures, reduce costs, and create the greatest convenience for people and businesses.
Clearly define the tasks and powers of agencies, organizations and individuals in the state apparatus, ensuring a clear distinction between the level of promulgation of policies and laws and the level of implementation.
Third: streamlining the organizational apparatus with restructuring the staff with sufficient qualities and capacity to match the tasks, reasonable staffing, and standardizing job titles.
Issue regulations on the framework of standards and criteria for arranging cadres at each level, from the central to the grassroots level, for each type, to proactively review and determine whether they can be arranged immediately.
Strongly innovate the work of recruitment, training, promotion, appointment, rotation, transfer, and evaluation of cadres in a practical direction, because finding people, on the basis of specific measurable products, has no forbidden areas, no exceptions in evaluating cadres.
There is an effective mechanism to screen and remove from work those who do not have the qualities, capacity, and prestige and to employ those with outstanding capacity.
VI Lenin, when talking about improving the State apparatus, emphasized: “We must follow this rule: less is better... I know that it is difficult to maintain that rule and apply it to our actual situation... I know that we will have to resist fiercely, we will have to show extraordinary perseverance... But I am still convinced that only by carrying out that work can we build a republic truly worthy of the name of the Soviet Socialist Republic”[1]; building an effective and efficient apparatus is a difficult and complicated task, requiring solidarity, unity, courage, and sacrifice of each cadre and Party member, along with the very high determination of the entire Party, the entire political system, first of all the heads of Party committees, governments, the Fatherland Front and organizations at all levels, all for a Vietnam with a rich people, a strong country, fairness, democracy, civilization, soon standing shoulder to shoulder with the world powers.
-------------
[1] VILenin: Complete Works, Progress Publishing House, Moscow, 1979, vol.45, p.445.
