In the morning, lawmakers listened to a proposal and a verification report on the reorganization of provincial-level administrative units in 2025.
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Law makers at the 9th session of the 15th National Assembly |
According to the Government's proposal, 52 provincial-level administrative units will be reorganized to form 23 new ones. Following this move, there will be 34 provincial-level administrative units nationwide, including six centrally-run cities and 28 provinces.
They will also look into a draft law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on National Defense, the Law on Officers of the People's Army, the Law on professional soldiers and national defense workers and employees, the Law on Military Service, the Law on Vietnam Border Guard, the Law on the People's Air Defense, the Law on Military Reserve Force, the Law on Civil Defense, the Law on Management and Protection of National Defense Works and Military Zones, the Law on Militia and Self-Defense Forces, and the Law on National Defense and Security Education.
After that, Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh will give a presentation about the role and significance of an international financial center. Legislators will then listen to a proposal and a verification eport on a draft N.A. resolution regarding the international financial center in Vietnam.
They will later work in groups to discuss those issues in the remaining time in the morning.
In the afternoon, they will engage in a plenary sitting to scrutinize the draft law amending and supplementing some articles of the Law on Handling of Administrative Violations and the N.A.’s draft resolution on agricultural land use tax exemption.
The second phase, scheduled to last until June 30, will focus on finalizing important issues, including a second reading and adoption of the constitutional amendments, reviewing the plan for merging provincial-level administrative units, conducting question-and-answer sessions, and voting on 34 laws and 21 resolutions. The first phase took place from May 5 to 29.
Source: VNA