Strengthening Core Role of Vietnam Fatherland Front in Empowering the People in New Development Era

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Renewing content, methods, and operating mechanisms

According to information from the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF), in his opening remarks at the workshop, Dr. Nguyen Huu Dung, former Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front and head of the research project, stated that the Vietnam Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations play a core role in ensuring that the people exercise their mastery, practice democratic rights, and participate in building and improving the socialist rule-of-law state. However, in promoting the people’s right to mastery, the Vietnam Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations still face certain limitations, requiring stronger and more comprehensive renewal of their content, methods, and operating mechanisms.

The scientific workshop “Promoting the core role of the Vietnam Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations to enable the people to exercise their mastery in the country’s new development period - Theory, practice, proposals, recommendations, and solutions.” (Photo: mattran.org.vn)

According to Dr. Nguyen Huu Dung, the current requirement is to clearly define appropriate content, forms, methods, and mechanisms to improve the quality of direct democracy, representative democracy, as well as the quality of supervision and social criticism, thereby fully promoting the core role of the Fatherland Front so that the people can effectively exercise their right to mastery.

At the workshop, experts and scholars focused on discussing and contributing opinions to clarify theoretical issues regarding the core role of the Vietnam Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations in enabling the people to exercise their mastery in the new development period; assessing the current situation and its underlying causes in promoting this role over nearly 40 years of renovation; and identifying practical issues that need to be addressed. On that basis, participants proposed viewpoints, orientations, tasks, and solutions to promote the core role of the Fatherland Front through 2030, with a vision to 2045.

Dr. Nguyen Huu Dung, former Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front and head of the research project, speaks at the workshop. (Photo: mattran.org.vn)

Institutionalizing the role of the Fatherland Front in policymaking

Dr. Nguyen Van Pha, a member of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, noted that the current period poses many new requirements for promoting the people’s right to mastery, especially in the context of Vietnam accelerating digital transformation and building e-government and digital government toward modern, transparent national governance with people at the center. The process of improving the socialist-oriented market economy institutions requires the people to participate more extensively and substantively in policymaking and lawmaking.

According to Dr. Nguyen Van Pha, the requirement for the Vietnam Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations is to shift strongly from “participation” to “proactive proposal,” from providing feedback at the final stage to engaging from the very beginning of policy formulation; and from isolated reflections to comprehensive, in-depth analysis grounded in scientific evidence. The participation of the Fatherland Front and its member organizations should not be limited to “consultation” or “opinion gathering,” but should be institutionalized into mandatory rights and responsibilities at key stages such as proposing legislative initiatives, participating in drafting, conducting policy criticism, and assessing legal impacts.

Dr. Nguyen Van Pha, member of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, speaks at the workshop. (Photo: mattran.org.vn)

“It is necessary to amend and supplement the provisions of the Law on the Promulgation of Legal Normative Documents and the Law on the Vietnam Fatherland Front in the direction of clearly stipulating the responsibility of drafting agencies to absorb and explain the opinions of the Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations, considering this a mandatory criterion when submitting draft laws and resolutions to the National Assembly and the Government,” Dr. Nguyen Van Pha proposed.

Addressing the forms through which the people exercise their mastery in the new development period, Associate Professor Dr. Le Ba Trinh, a member of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, stated that alongside traditional forms, people are increasingly exercising their right to mastery through the internet, social networks, and online interactive platforms. These are new, dynamic, and effective means for conveying opinions and aspirations, as well as for enabling public supervision of organizations and individuals within the political system.

Dr. Ta Van Sy, former Director of the Center for Cadre Training and Scientific Research of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, emphasized that in response to new development requirements, the Fatherland Front needs to continue stronger renewal; enhance its capacity to grasp public sentiment; be more closely engaged and proactive in representing and protecting the legitimate rights and interests of the people; improve the substance and effectiveness of supervision and social criticism; and modernize mobilization methods in the context of digital transformation and increasingly diverse social interests.

“To continue promoting its core role in the new period, the Fatherland Front must remain steadfast in the objective of ‘putting the people at the center,’ strengthen public trust in the Party and the State, proactively advise on improving grassroots democratic institutions, enhance the effectiveness of coordination with authorities, and mobilize the intellect and strength of the entire political system and the people in building and safeguarding the Fatherland,” Dr. Ta Van Sy recommended.

Sharing the same view, Dr. Nguyen Van Hung, former Deputy Head of the Central Commission for Mass Mobilization, stressed the need to enhance unified awareness and responsibility among party committees, party organizations, and cadres and party members regarding democracy and the “political core” role of the Vietnam Fatherland Front in ensuring the people’s right to mastery; promote the Front’s role in inspection, supervision, and participation in preventing and combating violations; and intensify theoretical research and practical review of socialist democratic practice and great national unity.

The opinions expressed at the workshop contributed to further deepening the theoretical and practical foundations for promoting the role of the people, reaffirming the principle that the Party leads, the State manages, and the Vietnam Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations serve as the core to enable the people to exercise their mastery; while also proposing solutions and recommendations to help the Vietnam Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations better fulfill their core role in promoting the people’s right to mastery through 2030, with a vision to 2045.

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