Hanoi (VNA) – Legislatorscast secret ballots in the vote of confidence on the 44 persons holding thepositions elected or approved by the National Assembly (NA) on October 25morning, part of the ongoing sixth session of the 15th NA.

Results are scheduled to beannounced in the afternoon the same day. Later, the NA will vote on a draft resolutionconfirming the results.

Theorganisation of the vote aims to promote the efficiency andeffectiveness of the parliament’s supervisory activities and the Stateapparatus’s activities, help assess the prestige and performance of officials,and help them realise the confidence they are given so as to continue makingself-improvement and bettering their performance. It is also a basis forauthorised agencies to carry out personnel planning, training, appointment, anduse.

This is an important work that must be implementedin line with regulations and with democracy, objectivity, impartiality, andtransparency guaranteed to have precise assessment of officials’ performance oftheir duties, political steadfastness, morality, and lifestyle.

NguyenThi Thanh, head of the board of NA deputies’ affairs under the NA Standing Committee,said that the vote is a critically important part of theparliament’s supervisory activities. To implement the Politburo’s RegulationNo. 96-QD/TW on the collection of votes of confidence on the leadership andmanagement positions in the political system, at its fifth session earlier thisyear, the 15th NA issued Resolution No. 96/2023/QH15 on the collection and holding of the vote of confidence on the persons holding the positions elected orapproved by the NA and the People’s Councils.

Accordingto this resolution, the parliament holds the vote of confidence on thoseholding the following positions: the State President, the Vice State President,the chairperson and vice chairpersons of the NA, members of the NA StandingCommittee, the NA Secretary General, the chairperson of the NA’s Council forEthnic Affairs, the chairpersons of the NA committees, the Prime Minister, thedeputy prime ministers, ministers, other members of the Government, the ChiefJustice of the Supreme People’s Court, the Prosecutor General of the SupremePeople’s Procuracy, and the Auditor General of the State Audit Office.

Clause 5 of Article 2 in the resolution alsostipulates that the vote of confidence will not be held for officials who arewaiting for retirement or were elected/appointed in the same year the vote ofconfidence is conducted.

Forty-nine people are holding the positionselected or approved by the NA at present, but five officials who were electedor approved in 2023 will not be subject to the vote of confidence, hence thelist of 44. Those five officials are State President Vo Van Thuong, DeputyPrime Minister Tran Hong Ha, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang, Minister ofNatural Resources and Environment Dang Quoc Khanh, and member of the NAStanding Committee and Chairman of the NA’s Committee for Financial andBudgetary Affairs Le Quang Manh.

Thanh noted that according to ResolutionNo. 96/2023/QH15, thepersons who have “low confidence” making up more than 50% to under two-thirdsof the total ballots can apply for resignation. In case they do not apply forresignation, the NA Standing Committee can propose the NA hold a vote ofconfidence on them right at the same session or the next

To those who have “low confidence” making up at least two-thirds of thetotal votes, the agencies or competent persons nominating those officials forthe positions elected or approved by the NA will have to propose the NA relieveor approve the relief proposal at the same session or the next./.