NA deputies of An Giang province at the sixth session of the 15th NA (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The 15th National Assembly (NA) on October 24 approveda list of 44 persons subject to the vote of confidence at its ongoing sixthsession in Hanoi.
NAChairman Vuong Dinh Hue said the organisation of the vote of confidence aims topromote the efficiency and effectiveness of the parliament’s supervisoryactivities and the State apparatus’s activities, help assess the prestige andperformance of officials, and help them realise the confidence they are given tocontinue making self-improvement and bettering their performance. It is also a basis for authorisedagencies to carry out personnel planning, training, appointment, and use.
Therefore, this is animportant work that must be implemented in line with regulations and withdemocracy, objectivity, impartiality, and transparency guaranteed, he noted.
Submitting the proposedlist of the persons subject to the vote of confidence, Nguyen Thi Thanh, headof the board of NA deputies’ affairs under the NA Standing Committee, said thataccording to the NA’s Resolution No. 96/2023/QH15,issued on June 23 this year, the parliament will hold votes of confidence onthose holding the following positions: the State President, the Vice StatePresident, the chairperson and vice chairpersons of the NA, members of the NAStanding Committee, the NA Secretary General, the chairperson of the NA’sCouncil for Ethnic Affairs, the chairpersons of the NA committees, the PrimeMinister, the deputy prime ministers, ministers, other members of theGovernment, the Chief Justice of the Supreme People’s Court, the ProsecutorGeneral of the Supreme People’s Procuracy, and the Auditor General of the StateAudit Office.
Clause 5 of Article 2 in the resolution also stipulates that vote of confidence will not be held for officials who are waiting for retirement or were elected/appointed in the same year the vote of confidence is conducted.
Forty-nine people are holding the positions elected or approved by the NA at present, but five officials who were elected or approved in 2023 will not be subject to thevote of confidence, hence the list of 44. Those five officials are State President Vo Van Thuong, Deputy Prime MinisterTran Hong Ha, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang, Minister of NaturalResources and Environment Dang Quoc Khanh, and member of the NA StandingCommittee and Chairman of the NA’s Committee for Financial and BudgetaryAffairs Le Quang Manh.
The proposedlist was passed with 95.34% of the votes./.
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NA deputies of An Giang province at the sixth session of the 15th NA (Photo: VNA) 
