Overview of the Activities of the People's Council X

The non-professional nature of the People's Council delegates is a factor that easily leads to "forgetting" the position and role of the People's Council of the delegates. Thus, it can be seen that the quality and effectiveness of the implementation of functions and organization of activities of the People's Council of the commune depend mainly on the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the People's Council of the commune. Therefore, the selection and arrangement of the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the People's Council of the commune play a particularly important role. At the same time, the training and education of the People's Council delegates of the commune should be a regular, annual task, not just by term.

The Commune People's Council usually meets twice a year. At the conference, the People's Council discusses and decides on issues according to its functions and powers. Decisions are voted on by majority. Therefore, creating a high consensus in the decisions of the Commune People's Council is an issue that needs to be focused on. Because the Commune People's Council delegates are representatives of local social groups, with both similar and different interests.

With the conference-style working style and with most of the delegates being non-professional, the connection between the delegates of the People's Council of the commune is "not very close", and information exchange between delegates rarely takes place.

Fourth, the process of exercising power and functions of the People's Council is influenced by many factors inside and outside the system .

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According to the communal political system, the internal factors that affect and influence the exercise of power and functions of the communal People's Council are: Party Committee, People's Committee, and Fatherland Front. In which, the Party Committee and People's Committee are the factors that directly affect and influence, and are decisive to the effectiveness of the communal People's Council's operations.

As a “subsystem” in the administrative system, the internal elements of the People’s Council of the commune play an important role, influencing the implementation of the functions and powers of the People’s Council of the commune: Chairman, Vice Chairman, Head of Committee and delegates. It can be generalized into two groups: Standing Committee of the People’s Council (Chairman, Vice Chairman, Heads, Vice Committees) and the group of delegates. These two groups of elements have different roles, positions and scopes of influence in the activities of the People’s Council of the commune.

External factors affecting the exercise of power and functions of the People's Council of the commune are: socio-economic conditions and social components in the locality.

Those factors, the local social structure, cultural identity and traditions greatly affect the activities of the People's Council of the commune. In localities where the economy is developed, the revolutionary tradition is deep, and the people have high civic awareness, the activities of the People's Council of the commune will have many advantages. The communal and clan character greatly affects the performance of the duties and responsibilities of the delegates.

2.1.3. Overview of the activities of the People's Council x

According to the provisions of law, the People's Council of the commune has the following duties and powers: To issue resolutions on issues within its duties and powers; To decide on measures to ensure social order and security, to combat, prevent and combat violations of the law; To protect the property of agencies and organizations, to protect the life, freedom, honor, dignity, property, and other legitimate rights and interests of citizens in the commune; To elect, dismiss, and remove a number of positions of the People's Council and the People's Committee; To decide on the state budget revenue estimates in the locality, to approve the commune budget settlement. To decide on investment policies for programs and projects of the commune according to decentralization; To supervise compliance with the Constitution and laws in the locality, the implementation of resolutions of the People's Council of the commune, to supervise the activities of the Standing Committee and committees of the People's Council, to supervise the People's Committee; To take a vote of confidence, to vote for confidence in the person holding the position elected by the People's Council of the commune; To dismiss the People's Council delegates of the commune and to accept the request of the People's Council delegates to resign from their duties as delegates; Abolish part or all of the illegal documents of the People's Committee of the commune and the Chairman of the People's Committee of the commune [82].

As a local government agency and implementing the socialist rule of law, the People's Council of the commune has the following functions: i. Representative function: The People's Council is a local state power agency, representing the will, aspirations and mastery of the people, elected by the local people; ii. Decision-making function : The People's Council decides on important policies and measures to promote the potential and develop the local economy and society, strengthen national defense and security, and continuously improve the material and spiritual life of the local people; iii. Supervisory function : The People's Council exercises the right to supervise the activities of the Standing Committee of the People's Council and the People's Committee of the commune; supervises the implementation of the People's Council's resolutions; supervises compliance with the constitution and laws in the locality.

From the functions, tasks and powers of the People's Council, the People's Council of the commune and the regulations on the activities of the People's Council, we can summarize the main activities of the People's Council of the commune: First, decision-making activities (issuing resolutions in all areas); Second, supervision activities; Third , activities of contacting voters.

The activities of the People's Council of the commune are mainly carried out according to the conference system, regular or extraordinary sessions of the People's Council, the Standing Committee of the People's Council; meetings with voters, etc. and are decided by majority.

The above three activities are the concretization of the functions, tasks and powers of the Commune People's Council; the collection of the social roles of the Commune People's Council; and the method of implementing the functions, tasks and powers of the Commune People's Council. Correctly and well implementing these three activities, the Commune People's Council has correctly and well implemented its social role and function as a component of the local government and the communal-level political system.

The performance of the People's Council of the commune is viewed from many perspectives, with many measurement methods, in which the evaluation opinions of the members of the Party Committee and voters are a main method.

Decision making activity (issuing resolutions)

The decision-making activities of the People's Council of the commune include decisions on economy, culture, society, national defense, security and decisions on personnel work.

The decisions of the People's Council of the commune are implemented at the session. According to the provisions of the Law on Organization of Local Government, the Law on Promulgation of Legal Documents; including 05 steps: i, Making a proposal to draft a resolution; ii, Drafting and collecting opinions on the draft resolution; iii, Appraising and submitting to the People's Committee for decision to submit the draft resolution; iv, Provincial People's Council Committees examine the draft resolution; v, Approving the draft resolution of the People's Council.

At all steps, there must be close coordination between the People's Council and the People's Committee, the People's Council Committees and the People's Committee's advisory bodies. It requires the participation and coordination from the beginning between the Standing Committee of the People's Council, the People's Council Committees and the People's Committee in examining the contents presented at the session. For contents with many concerns, it is necessary to discuss and agree on how to handle possible issues.

arising during the discussion at the session. The review reports must truly be a reliable basis for the People's Council delegates to discuss and decide.

The factor that cannot be ignored is the role of delegates in discussing and issuing resolutions. People's Council delegates must understand the issue accurately, grasp it thoroughly, and confidently discuss and state their views, so that the People's Council can make correct and highly feasible decisions.

Resolutions issued by the People's Council are the legal basis for the People's Committee to carry out tasks of socio-economic development, ensuring security and national defense in the locality. Therefore, after issuing the resolution, the Standing Committee, the People's Council Committees and People's Council delegates need to coordinate with the government to conduct meetings with voters to disseminate the resolution to all classes of people; combine dissemination on mass media to create consensus and support from the people in the process of organizing the implementation of the resolution and at the same time strengthen supervision of the implementation of the issued resolutions.

Monitoring activities

The People's Council of the commune conducts supervision in two forms: One is supervision at the session, including reviewing reports of the Standing Committee of the People's Council, the People's Committee, the People's Court, and the People's Procuracy at the same level; questioning and answering questions; Two is supervision between two sessions, including supervision, thematic surveys, and the Standing Committee of the People's Council organizing explanation sessions.

The People's Council's supervisory activities, especially thematic supervision activities, are of great significance, demonstrating the role of the State power agency at the local level. Through supervisory activities, the People's Council discovers shortcomings and limitations in the implementation of policies and guidelines of the Central Government, the province, district and commune; shortcomings and limitations in the process of performing socio-economic development tasks in the commune. From there, solutions and recommendations are proposed to help remove difficulties and obstacles and promote socio-economic development in the locality, while contributing to improving the effectiveness and efficiency of local State agencies.

Criteria for evaluating monitoring activities can be based on a number of contents such as: i, Selecting monitoring content must ensure practicality, suitability with the actual local situation, with focus, key points, concentrating on pressing issues, opinions and recommendations of voters, avoiding overlap and duplication; ii, Selecting monitoring forms and methods to ensure substance and effectiveness towards the socio-economic development goals of the locality; iii, Organizing inspection and urging the implementation of monitoring conclusions and being able to re-monitor when necessary.

Voter Contact Activities

Voter contact activities are carried out through the following main activities: voter contact, citizen reception, and public propaganda and mobilization.

Meeting voters and receiving citizens is the responsibility of People's Council deputies as stipulated in the Law. The practical activities of People's Councils show that meeting voters and receiving citizens plays an important role in strengthening the relationship between the people and the People's Council and People's Council deputies in particular. Through these activities, People's Councils grasp the thoughts, aspirations, opinions and recommendations of the people and consider and propose competent agencies to resolve and respond to citizens. Doing this work well will contribute to improving the effectiveness of People's Council operations, clearly demonstrating the role of People's Councils as the State power agency in the locality, representing the will and aspirations of local people.

In order to achieve good results in contacting voters, first of all, People's Council delegates must promote a sense of responsibility in seriously implementing contact with voters and receiving citizens according to the assigned schedule; proactively study regulations, cultivate skills in contacting voters and receiving citizens such as presentation skills, listening, answering, explaining so that voters can grasp and understand the issue... creating an open and friendly atmosphere during contact with voters and receiving citizens.

In addition, the activities of contacting voters also require the Standing Committee of the People's Council to enhance innovation in the form, content and methods of contacting voters, receiving citizens, and contacting voters in a practical, effective and democratic manner. Strengthen coordination between the Standing Committee of the People's Council, the People's Committee, the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee and relevant agencies in the activities of contacting voters and receiving citizens. The Standing Committee of the People's Council increases

Strengthen supervision of the handling of voters' opinions and recommendations and the handling of citizens' complaints and denunciations by competent State agencies, creating trust among the people.

The result of contacting voters is that People's Council delegates must grasp the thoughts, aspirations, opinions and recommendations of the people and consider and propose competent authorities to resolve and respond to citizens. Doing this well will contribute to improving the effectiveness of People's Council activities, clearly demonstrating the role of People's Council as a local State power agency, representing the will and aspirations of local people.

From the above analysis, in studying the activities of the People's Council of the commune, the thesis researches and clarifies: Decision-making activities (issuing resolutions); Monitoring activities; Activities of capturing voters' opinions.

The decision-making activities of the People's Council of the commune are determined based on the following indicators: economic decisions; decisions on culture, society, national defense, security and decisions on personnel.

The supervision activities of the People's Council of the commune are determined based on the following indicators: supervision at the session, supervision between two sessions.

Activities of contacting voters of the People's Council of the commune are determined based on the following indicators: contacting voters, receiving citizens, receiving voters' petitions and letters; urging the settlement of citizens' petitions and complaints; propaganda and mobilizing voters.

2.1.4. Factors affecting the activities of the People's Council x

The People's Council is a component, a sub-system in the grassroots political system, elected by voters, so the activities of the People's Council of the commune are mainly influenced by the components of the communal political system, the social structure of the People's Council delegates and voters.

Elements of the social political system

The descriptions and analyses of local government and the communal political system have shown the relationship between the People's Council of the commune, the Party Committee of the commune, the People's Committee of the commune and the Fatherland Front. Thus, within the scope of the political system, the elements of the communal political system interact with each other, being both the cause and the effect of each other. The activities of the People's Council of the commune are influenced and controlled by the Party Committee of the commune, the People's Committee of the commune and the Fatherland Front of the commune.

In the current political system in our country, the Communist Party is both a member and a leader. The Party sets out the political platform, guidelines, strategies, viewpoints and policies for socio-economic development; at the same time, the Party is the leader and organizer of the implementation of the Party's platform and policies. Therefore, all activities of the People's Council of the commune are under the leadership of the Party. The Party Committee of the commune issues specialized resolutions to lead and direct the activities of the People's Council; gives opinions and decides on issues of orientation and direction when the People's Council discusses and decides on important issues under the authority of the People's Council to suit the reality and requirements of the locality and in accordance with the leadership direction and resolutions of the Party Committee; promptly directs and leads the People's Council to discuss measures to solve outstanding and urgent issues in the locality. The Party Committee of the commune carries out the work of planning, introducing and arranging the People's Council's cadres. Cadre work is the work of Party committees at all levels; Leading the planning and arrangement of cadres for the People's Council of the commune is one of the important functions of the Party Committee of the commune towards the People's Council of the commune.

The People's Committee of the commune is the executive body of the People's Council of the commune [82]. The management and operation activities of the People's Committee of the commune have a great impact on the activities of the People's Council of the commune, reflected in all three contents: decision making, supervision and contact with voters. With the decision making activity (issuing resolutions), the Standing Committee of the People's Council coordinates with the People's Committee to prepare reports, projects, submissions, and draft resolutions according to regulations; the more carefully the content is prepared by the People's Committee, the higher the quality of the resolution issued by the People's Council, the more feasible and effective it is. The People's Committee of the commune is also the agency responsible for implementing the Resolutions of the People's Council in practice. Whether the Resolutions of the People's Council of the commune are implemented in social life or not, whether they are effective or not depends on the direction and operation of the People's Committee of the commune. With the activities of supervision, questioning, and explanation, the People's Committee well implements the supervision conclusions, contributing to improving the effectiveness of the People's Council's activities, consolidating people's trust in the elected agency; On the contrary, if the People's Committee is indifferent, does not care about the content of the questioning and supervision of the People's Council or has the mentality of just doing it to get it done, the People's Council's supervision activities will not be effective. Through the supervision and questioning activities of the People's Council, the issues under the management of the People's Committee of the commune that are facing difficulties, obstacles, are behind schedule or still have problems will be resolved.

Many different opinions are leaked, thereby finding solutions to overcome difficulties and promoting better work. With the activity of contacting voters, the People's Committee effectively handles recommendations, urgent issues, complaints and denunciations from voters and citizens sent through People's Council delegates, which will help People's Council delegates best perform their representative function.

The Vietnam Fatherland Front is the political foundation of the people's government. The Fatherland Front participates in the activities of the People's Council on the following main contents: i, Participate in the election of People's Council deputies; ii, Coordinate the organization for People's Council deputies to meet voters on thematic issues, meet voters before and after the People's Council session and summarize voters' recommendations; iii, Participate in the People's Council's supervisory activities; iv, Supervise the activities of elected representatives; v, Participate in giving opinions on reports, projects, submissions, and draft resolutions submitted at the People's Council session; vi, Attend People's Council sessions.

From the above analysis, we can generalize the relationship between the elements in the political system and the People's Council of the commune: i, The relationship between the Party Committee and the People's Council is a relationship of leadership nature ; ii, The relationship between the People's Council and the People's Committee is the relationship between the local state power agency and the executive body of the People's Council ; iii, The relationship between the People's Council and the Fatherland Front is the relationship between the agency representing the will, aspirations and mastery of the people and the organization that is the political basis of the people's government of the commune. The impact and influence of the elements in the political system on the activities of the People's Council of the commune is based on the nature of the identified relationships.

Social structure of the Commune People's Council

According to the law, the People's Council of a commune has from 25 to no more than 35 delegates, depending on the population of each commune. The People's Council of a commune consists of a chairman, vice chairmen, committees and a standing committee of the People's Council [82]. Thus, from a systemic approach, the People's Council of a commune is a system, with a social structure and internal relations. The existence and integrity of the People's Council of a commune as a system depends on the components and relations between the components, on the proper implementation of the position, role and function of each component and of the entire system. Accordingly, the activities of the People's Council of a commune depend on the structure of the People's Council of the commune, on the social structure of the People's Council of the commune.

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