Legislative leader: voters’ voice are heard

National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Phu Trong has pledged the top legislative body’s further reforms in collecting voters’ viewpoints to address their concerns no matter how much time it will take.
National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Phu Trong has pledged the top legislative body’s further reforms in collecting voters’ viewpoints to address their concerns no matter how much time it will take.

Trong made the pledge at a meeting with voters from the inner district of Ba Dinh and Cau Giay on June 23, summing up the result of the freshly-concluded plenary session.

He said the National Assembly would listen to voters and closely supervise the process of solving their petitions until they are done if petitions are found true.

“Voters’ opinions are very important to the National Assembly. In the recent past, the National Assembly has carefully listened to voters’ voice,” emphasised the legislative chief.

He explained that at the recent session, legislators heard not only voters’ voices but also reports on how their petitions are solved as well as the supervision results.

The supervision results, including the progress made, those relevant agencies which have fulfilled their responsibilities and which not, all have been made public as a measure to force responsible agencies to take care of their work, Trong said.

The National Assembly will follow the process until the goal is met along side with public supervision, he added.

His speech was warmly welcomed by voters, who recognised practical reforms in the recent National Assembly meetings, saying they showed stronger democracy.

Some said during recent sessions, deputies to the National Assembly had spoken out, reflecting what voters needed.

Some, however, proposed that legislators should further strengthen supervision at the beginning in an effort to prevent errors rather than to let them happen and waste time and energy in follow-up supervisions and debates.

They also wanted reforms in collecting public opinions that should be open to people of all walks of life./.

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