(VOVworld) – Regulations on the organization of the government apparatus are an important part of the draft revision of the 1992 Constitution. Legal experts have proposed several ideas for reforming the government apparatus of the Vietnam Socialist state to improve the efficiency of state governance.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc asks ministries, sectors, and localities to raise high responsibility in collecting public opinions to the revision of the 1992 Constitution (photo:chinhphu)

Upholding the essence and general mode of government apparatus in the 1992 Constitution, constitutionalizing the view on building a state governed by law, the draft constitutional revision has clarified the regulations on assignment, collaboration, and supervision among government agencies in charge of implementing legislative, executive, and judicial rights, functions of legislative, executive, and judicial agencies, and adjust some of their tasks and rights. The draft revision also elaborates the reforming of government organization and performance toward a uniformed, transparent, sustainable, and appropriate administration, enhancing democracy and jurisdiction in governance. Deputy Minister of Justice Hoang The Lien says: "We have to identify judicial and executive agencies. Previously, we recognized three organs of the state apparatus, which were not clearly assigned tasks. It causes a lot of difficulties in their enforcement. For example, we have set various tasks for judicial reform but the progress has been slow because we confuse what the judiciary is. In other countries, the judiciary is trials and the court. We consider the judiciary the investigation, prosecution, and trial, which covers a broader area. The government is in charge of carrying out sentences of the court."

The draft revision of the 1992 Constitution has a new point on constitutional method of territorial administrative unit and local administration in the face of Vietnam’s administrative reform from the central to local level. Accordingly, the local administration’s organization will be reformed toward ensuring their self-controlling and bearing the responsibilities for their decisions and policy implementation within their authorization; building a model of local administration with the characters of rural, urban, and island administration. Master of Law Nguyen Kim Ngan says: "The revised constitution has supplements to the organization of the state apparatus. The 1992 Constitution includes general changes to the power of the central to local government. It has limited the development below our expectation. We need to make a change in this revised constitution."

Specific regulations on the state apparatus in the constitutional revision continues to affirm the essence and general mode of the political system and state apparatus defined in the 1992 Platform and Constitution, while constitutionalizing the view and orientation to build and improve a Vietnam Socialist State governed by law. The changes will improve the efficiency of state governance in the context of Vietnam’s strong regional and international integration.