Chương 2 Luật Mặt trận tổ quốc Việt Nam 1999: Trách nhiệm và quyền của mặt trận tổ quốc việt nam

Chapter II

RESPONSIBILITIES AND RIGHTS OF VIETNAM FATHERLAND FRONT

Article 6.- Rallying the entire people in a great solidarity bloc

1. Vietnam Fatherland Front develops diversified forms of activities and patriotic movements in order to rally and unite all Vietnamese in the country and overseas, irrespective of their classes, social strata, ethnic groups, beliefs, religions and past, aiming to mobilize all resources for the construction and defense of the socialist Vietnamese Fatherland.

2. Vietnam Fatherland Front promotes the activeness of the prominent individuals in various social classes, strata, ethnic groups and religions in order to mobilize the people to fulfill the political, socio-economic, national security and defense and external affairs tasks of the State.

3. Vietnam Fatherland Front takes part in the propagandization and mobilization of overseas Vietnamese to enhance their community unity, to help one another in daily life, to preserve the national cultural identity and fine traditions, maintain their close relations with their families and native land, and contribute to the construction of their native land and country.

Article 7.- Propagandizing and mobilizing the people to exercise their mastery and observe the policies and laws

Vietnam Fatherland Front shall propagandize and mobilize the people to exercise their mastery and observe the policies and laws with the following contents:

1. To take part in the propagandization and mobilization of the people to materialize the Party’s guidelines and policies and observe the State’s laws;

2. To coordinate with and join the State agencies in organizing campaigns and patriotic emulation movements, mobilizing the people to unite with and help one another to develop economy and build cultural life, solving the social problems, building the entire-people defense, and in maintaining the political security and social order and safety;

3. To join the People’s Councils and People’s Committees of the same level in organizing and mobilizing the people to exercise democracy in localities, guiding people to elaborate the village conventions and rules on the self-management way of life in hamlets, villages, mountain villages, urban residence groups and other population communities at grassroots level in conformity with laws, thus contributing to building and protecting the people’s administration;

4. To take part in the conciliation activities in localities according to the provisions of the legislation on conciliation;

5. To gather and study the people’s opinions and aspirations, then report and propose them to the Party and the State.

Article 8.- Taking part in the electoral work

Within its function, tasks and powers and under the provisions of the legislation on election, Vietnam Fatherland Front shall organize the consultative conferences to select and recommend candidates for the election of deputies to the National Assembly or the People’s Councils; join the organizations in charge of election; coordinate with the concerned State agencies in organizing conferences of voters in their residence places as well as meetings between voters and candidates; take part in the propagandization and mobilization of voters to observe the legislation on election; and take part in the supervision of the election of deputies to the National Assembly or deputies to the People’s Councils.

Article 9.- Taking part in the legislative work

Vietnam Fatherland Front shall take part in the legislative work with the following contents:

1. To propose to the National Assembly Standing Committee and the Government the draft programs for elaborating laws and ordinances;

2. To submit to the National Assembly and its Standing Committee bills and draft ordinances;

3. To join the competent State agencies in promulgating resolutions and joint circulars to guide the implementation of law provisions on Vietnam Fatherland Front’s responsibility to participate in the management of the State;

4. To contribute its comments on bills, draft ordinances, resolutions, decrees and other draft legal documents.

Article 10.- Taking part in the legal proceedings, selection of judges and recommendation of people’s assessors to the people’s courts

Vietnam Fatherland Front has the right and responsibility to take part in legal proceedings, participate in the Judge Selection Council, and recommend qualified persons to be elected or appointed as assessors of the people’s courts according to provisions of law.

Article 11.- Attending meetings of the National Assembly Standing Committee and the Government, sessions of the People’s Councils and meetings of the People’s Committees

1. The President of the Central Committee of Vietnam Fatherland Front shall be invited to attend meetings of the National Assembly Standing Committee and the Government when relevant matters are put to discussion.

The presidents of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committees in the localities shall be invited to attend in sessions of the People’s Councils as well as meetings of the People’s Committees of the same level when relevant matters are put to discussion.

2. At the regular meetings of the People’s Councils, the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committees of the same levels shall brief on their participation in building the local administrations; make proposals and petitions to the People’s Councils and People’s Committees on necessary matters.

The State agencies shall have to consider and reply the petitions of Vietnam Fatherland Front according to provisions of law.

Article 12.- Supervising activities

1. The supervision by Vietnam Fatherland Front is the people’s supervision in support of the State’s supervision, examination and inspection work, which aims to contribute to safeguarding and building the Socialist Republic of Vietnam into a clean and strong one operating effectively and efficiently, and to protect the legitimate rights and interests of the people.

Vietnam Fatherland Front supervises the operations of the State agencies, people-elected delegates, State officials and employees according to provisions of law.

2. Supervising activities of Vietnam Fatherland Front shall be carried out in the following forms:

a) Mobilizing the people to exercise their rights to supervision;

b) Joining the State power bodies in the supervising activities;

c) Through its activities, gathering and forwarding comments made by the people and its members to competent State agencies to request the latter to commend and reward good persons and good deeds, to consider, solve and handle cases of law offenses.

The heads of the agencies and organizations shall have to create conditions for Vietnam Fatherland Front to perform the supervising task. When receiving the petitions from the Front, the heads of the agencies and organizations shall have to consider and reply within a time limit prescribed by law.

Article 13.- The people’s external activities

Vietnam Fatherland Front shall carry out and expand the people’s external activities in the region and around the world along the external affair guidelines of the Party and the State, thus contributing to enhancing the friendship among nations for peace, cooperation and development.