Who has the right to propose the National Assembly to amend the Constitution of Vietnam? Whose proposal does the National Assembly decide on legislative programs in Vietnam?
Who has the right to propose the National Assembly to amend the Constitution of Vietnam?
Pursuant to Article 4 of the 2014 Law on Organization of the National Assembly of Vietnam stipulating as follows:
Making and amending the Constitution
1. The President, the Standing Committee of the National Assembly, the Government or at least one-third of the total number of National Assembly deputies may propose the National Assembly to consider and make a decision on making or amending the Constitution.
The National Assembly shall decide to make or amend the Constitution when at least two-thirds of the total number of National Assembly deputies vote for it.
2. The National Assembly shall set up the Constitution Drafting Committee. The membership, number of members, tasks and powers of the Constitution Drafting Committee shall be decided by the National Assembly at the proposal of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly.
3. The Constitution Drafting Committee shall draft the Constitution, collect public opinions about the draft Constitution and submit it to the National Assembly.
4. The Constitution shall be passed by the National Assembly when at least two-thirds of the total number of National Assembly deputies vote for it. The National Assembly shall hold a referendum on the Constitution in the case prescribed in Clause 1, Article 19 of this Law.
Thus, the President, Standing Committee of the National Assembly, the Government or at least one-third of the total number of National Assembly deputies propose the National Assembly to consider and make a decision on making or amending the Constitution.
- The National Assembly shall set up the Constitution Drafting Committee. The membership, number of members, tasks and powers of the Constitution Drafting Committee shall be decided by the National Assembly at the proposal of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly.
- The Constitution Drafting Committee shall draft the Constitution, collect public opinions about the draft Constitution and submit it to the National Assembly.
- The Constitution shall be passed by the National Assembly when at least two-thirds of the total number of National Assembly deputies vote for it. The National Assembly shall hold a referendum on the Constitution in the case prescribed in Clause 1, Article 19 of the 2014 Law on Organization of the National Assembly of Vietnam.
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Whose proposal does the National Assembly decide on legislative programs in Vietnam?
Pursuant to Article 5 of the 2014 Law on Organization of the National Assembly of Vietnam stipulating as follows:
Making and amending laws
1. The National Assembly shall decide on legislative programs at the proposal of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly.
2. Before being submitted to the National Assembly, bills shall be verified by the Ethnic Council or Committees of the National Assembly and commented by the Standing Committee of the National Assembly.
3. The National Assembly shall discuss, consider and pass a bill into a law at one or several of its sessions, depending on the contents of the bill.
Thus, the National Assembly shall decide on legislative programs at the proposal of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly.
Is the abolition of taxes under the decision of the National Assembly?
Pursuant to Clause 2, Article 7 of the 2014 Law on Organization of the National Assembly of Vietnam stipulating as follows:
Decision on important socio-economic issues
1. The National Assembly shall decide on the country’s long-term and annual fundamental goals, targets, policies and tasks for socio-economic development; and on investment policy for national target programs and national important projects.
2. The National Assembly shall decide on fundamental national financial and monetary policies; impose, amend or abolish taxes; decide on the division of revenues and expenditures between central and local budgets; decide on safety limits for national, public and government debts; decide on state budget estimates and the allocation of the central budget; and approve the final accounts of the state budget.
3. The National Assembly shall decide on the State’s policies on ethnicities, policies on religion and basic external policies.
Thus, the imposition, amendment and abolition of taxes shall be decided by the National Assembly.
In addition, the National Assembly shall decide on fundamental national financial and monetary policies; decide on the division of revenues and expenditures between central and local budgets; decide on safety limits for national, public and government debts; decide on state budget estimates and the allocation of the central budget; and approve the final accounts of the state budget.
At the same time, National Assembly shall decide on the country’s long-term and annual fundamental goals, targets, policies and tasks for socio-economic development; and on investment policy for national target programs and national important projects.
The National Assembly shall decide on the State’s policies on ethnicities, policies on religion and basic external policies.
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