General Secretary, President To Lam calls for overhaul of Presidential Office's operations and governance
WVR - General Secretary and President To Lam highly appreciates the role of the Office of the President and outlines new directions in advisory work, innovation, and digital transformation.
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| General Secretary and President To Lam speaks. (Source: VNA) |
On the morning of May 11, in Hanoi, General Secretary and President To Lam met with the Office of the President to assess the situation and outline the agency's tasks for the upcoming period.
Also in attendance were Vo Thi Anh Xuan, Secretary of the Party Central Committee and Vice President; members of the Party Central Committee; leaders of the Central Party Office; Office of the General Secretary; and the Office of the President.
In his remarks at the meeting, General Secretary and President To Lam acknowledged and highly appreciated the efforts of the Office of the President in the past term. The office has ensured stable, continuous, safe, and procedural operations for the President and Vice President, significantly contributing to the execution of the President's duties and powers as stipulated by the Constitution and laws. These achievements reflect the responsibility, discipline, and fine tradition of the Office of the President.
In the current context, the requirements for comprehensive advisory, coordination, and service work are very high. The supporting apparatus must ensure unity, seamlessness, timeliness, and efficiency. It is essential to clearly distinguish between Party work and state work to avoid role, task, authority, and procedural overlaps.
Matters under the President's authority must be handled in accordance with the Constitution, state ceremonies, and Party work principles and authority.
The advisory work of the Office of the President must be elevated to a new level—deeper in politics, more solid in legality, clearer in authority, sharper in forecasting, tighter in control, more professional in data, and more people-oriented in approach.
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| General Secretary and President To Lam speaks at the meeting. (Source: VNA) |
After listening to the Office's report and candid, focused opinions with specific proposals, General Secretary and President To Lam concluded the meeting by directing key task groups.
The Office of the President must accurately assess its role and the essence of its work, innovate reporting regimes, enhance advisory service quality, and standardize output products. It must clearly define the nature of each work group and task to avoid general assessments.
The Office of the President must quickly complete the coordination mechanism with the Party Central Committe's Office, the Office of the General Secretary, and other relevant agencies. This is a crucial task in the new context where the General Secretary concurrently holds the position of President.
Party work and state work have different functions, authorities, procedures, document forms, and responsibilities. They must not be mechanically divided, absolutely avoiding overlaps, ensuring connectivity without role confusion, unity without substitution, clear focal points without adding layers, and speed with proper authority.
The Office of the President must review and reorganize its organizational structure, staffing, and job positions in line with functions, tasks, working regulations, and internal rules. It must establish a new work assignment mechanism for serving the Vice President, ensuring clarity, rigor, and suitability.
The office must have a sufficiently strong force to serve the Vice President but must not form a separate work line.
General Secretary and President To Lam emphasized the need to elevate and enhance tasks related to legal, judicial, and citizen rights under the President's authority of the Office of the President. This task group clearly demonstrates the state's legal role, involving human life, humanitarian policies, the strictness of the law, and societal trust. Therefore, it requires good data, tight processes, responsibility, and must not be influenced by external factors.
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| Overview ot the meeting of General Secretary and President To Lamat the meeting with the Office of the President. (Source: TTXVN) |
General Secretary and President To Lam requires ensuring state standards, reputation, and integrity in state personnel work, foreign affairs, heads of state, and commendations. This is a very important task group, requiring tight, accurate, and authorized advisory work, following the correct procedures to prevent errors.
The Office of the President must accelerate digital transformation, data management, security, and result tracking. Alongside this, it must strictly maintain information security and public service integrity, absolutely avoiding the misuse of public information. It must build a team of officials absolutely loyal to the Party, the nation, the people, the Constitution, and the law, strictly enforcing public service discipline.
General Secretary and President To Lam emphasized the need for analytical, synthesis, critical, forecasting, and interdisciplinary working capabilities.
The Party Committee and the Office of the President must further strengthen their comprehensive leadership role over the activities of Party Committee agencies. This includes not only leading political, ideological, and cell activities, inspections, and internal unity but also directly improving the quality of advisory work, innovating working methods, and building a disciplined and orderly team of officials.
