The National Assembly’s Committee for Legal Affairs held a workshop
in Hanoi on July 29 to hear Japan’s experience regarding the
organisation and operation of local government administration, as part
of the process to build a draft law on local government in Vietnam.
At
the function, Japanese experts discussed at length the division of
power and duties between the central and local government and the
organisation of local self-governed administration as well as the role
of local government in their country.
Opinions of the scholars
will serve as reference for the building of the draft law on the
organisation of local government in Vietnam.
The law is expected
to regulate a wide range of relating issues, such as defining
administrative units, determining the organisation model for each
administrative level, and specifying duties and power of local
government at different levels.
The draft law will be tabled for
debate at the NA’s 8th session this October with the goal of to be
voted into law at the May 2015 session.-VNA