By Vu Quoc Ngu | Jun 24, 2015
Vietnam’s legislative body National Assembly (NA) on June 23 held a debate on the draft law on referendums, the first time in the country’s 70-year history under the communist regime.
The majority of legislators agreed on the need of building the law on referendums to serve as a legal basis to promote the role of ordinary people in the country’s affairs.
They agreed that the NA’s Standing Committee, the president, the government or one third of the NA’s members at least can propose referendums, according to the state media.
Regarding which issues to be put for referendums, legislators remained divided. Many lawmakers said the law needs to specify all issues that could be put for referendums while others said the law should define principles for referendums’ issues and the bodies empowered to propose referendums will decide which may be subject to referendums.
Referendums should be taken on the country’s Constitution and other major issues such as the country’s sovereignty, language, national currency, and memberships of international and regional organizations, said former legislator Nguyen Dinh Xuan.
Lawmakers did not agree on the size of the plebiscites. Many legislators said referendums should be taken at national level if the issue will have impact on the entire country, and at local level if it will have impact on a particular region.
However, some regional issues must be approved by people nationwide so the referendum on these issues must be done in the national level.
The referendums must be different from taking opinions from people, they said, adding the results of the referendums must be respected and implemented.
Some legislators voiced their concerns about the formality of referendums. In many elections, many people can vote for others and the problem may be in referendums, they said.
The referendums should be treated as regular activities of modern society, said Duong Trung Quoc, a Dong Nai province-based legislator.
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June 24, 2015
Vietnam Parliament Discusses Draft Law on Referendums for 1st Time
by Nhan Quyen • [Human Rights]
They agreed that the NA’s Standing Committee, the president, the government or one third of the NA’s members at least can propose referendums, according to the state media.
By Vu Quoc Ngu | Jun 24, 2015
Vietnam’s legislative body National Assembly (NA) on June 23 held a debate on the draft law on referendums, the first time in the country’s 70-year history under the communist regime.
The majority of legislators agreed on the need of building the law on referendums to serve as a legal basis to promote the role of ordinary people in the country’s affairs.
They agreed that the NA’s Standing Committee, the president, the government or one third of the NA’s members at least can propose referendums, according to the state media.
Regarding which issues to be put for referendums, legislators remained divided. Many lawmakers said the law needs to specify all issues that could be put for referendums while others said the law should define principles for referendums’ issues and the bodies empowered to propose referendums will decide which may be subject to referendums.
Referendums should be taken on the country’s Constitution and other major issues such as the country’s sovereignty, language, national currency, and memberships of international and regional organizations, said former legislator Nguyen Dinh Xuan.
Lawmakers did not agree on the size of the plebiscites. Many legislators said referendums should be taken at national level if the issue will have impact on the entire country, and at local level if it will have impact on a particular region.
However, some regional issues must be approved by people nationwide so the referendum on these issues must be done in the national level.
The referendums must be different from taking opinions from people, they said, adding the results of the referendums must be respected and implemented.
Some legislators voiced their concerns about the formality of referendums. In many elections, many people can vote for others and the problem may be in referendums, they said.
The referendums should be treated as regular activities of modern society, said Duong Trung Quoc, a Dong Nai province-based legislator.