What are the functions, tasks and powers of the National Assembly of Vietnam?

The National Assembly of Vietnam shall have the following tasks and powers:

1. Make and amend the Constitution; make and amend laws;

2. Perform the supreme oversight over the observance of the Constitution, laws and resolutions of the National Assembly; perform the supreme oversight over the activities of the President, the Standing Committee of the National Assembly, the Government, the Supreme People’s Court, the Supreme People’s Procuracy, the National Election Council, the State Audit Office, and other agencies established by the National Assembly.

3. Decide on the country’s long-term and annual fundamental goals, targets, policies and tasks for socio-economic development.

4. 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.

5. Decide on the State’s policies on ethnicities, policies on religion and basic external policies.

6. Regulate the organization and operation of the National Assembly, the President, the Standing Committee of the National Assembly, the Government, the Supreme People’s Court, the Supreme People’s Procuracy, the National Election Council, the State Audit Office, and other agencies established by the National Assembly.

7. Elect, relieve and remove President, Vice President; Chairperson, Vice Chairperson of the National Assembly, member of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly, Chairperson of the Ethnic Council, Chairperson of the Committee of the National Assembly, Prime Minister, Chief Justice of the Supreme People’s Court, Procurator General of the Supreme People’s Procuracy, State Auditor General, the head of other agencies established by the National Assembly; approve proposals to appoint, relieve from duty, and dismiss Deputy Prime Minister, Ministers and other members of the Government, and Judges of the Supreme People's Court; approve the list of members of the National Defense and Security Council and the list of members of the National Election Council.

8. Cast votes of confidence on holders of positions elected or approved by the National Assembly.

9. Decide on the establishment and abolition of ministries or ministerial-level agencies; establishment, dissolution, consolidation, division, and adjustment of administrative boundaries, of provinces, central-affiliated cities and special administrative-economic units; establishment and abolition of other agencies in accordance with the Constitution and law.

10. Annul documents of the President, Government, Prime Minister, Supreme People’s Court, Supreme People’s Procuracy and other agencies established by the National Assembly which contravene the Constitution, laws or resolutions of the National Assembly.

11. Decide on a general amnesty.

12. Regulate ranks and levels in the people's armed forces, diplomatic positions and levels and other state functions and levels; medals, badges and state honorary titles.

13. Decide on issues of war and peace; regulate a state of emergency and other special measures to ensure national defense and security.

14. Decide on the basic external policies; approve and decide on the accession to treaties related to war, peace, national sovereignty or the membership of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in important international and regional organizations, treaties on human rights or fundamental rights and obligations of citizens, and withdrawal from these treaties and other treaties that are not consistent with the laws or resolutions of the National Assembly.

15. Decide to hold a referendum.

What are the principles and effectiveness of operation of the National Assembly?

The National Assembly shall work under the conferential regime and make decisions by a vote of the majority.

The effectiveness of operation of the National Assembly shall be ensured by the effectiveness of sessions of the National Assembly, activities of its Standing Committee, Ethnic Council, Committees, deputies’ delegations and deputies, and by the effectiveness of the coordination with the President, the Government, the Supreme People’s Court, the Supreme People’s Procuracy, the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee and other agencies and organizations.

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