Minister of Justice Nguyen Hai Ninh: Resolution No. 66-NQ/TW is truly a "million-dollar signal" for a profound institutional reform

Issuing many strategic decisions, unprecedented in law-making work

* Can the Minister tell us about some outstanding results in implementing Resolution No. 66-NQ/TW in 2025? Have these results created a turning point in institutional reform, Minister?

Immediately after Resolution No. 66-NQ/TW was issued, on May 18, 2025, the Politburo and the Secretariat held a national conference to disseminate the content of the Resolution with the participation of more than 1.5 million cadres and party members in person and online to 37,000 connecting points at the central, provincial, district, commune levels, agencies and units across the country. The National Assembly Party Committee issued Plan No. 28-KH/DUQH dated May 16, 2025 on implementing Resolution 66-NQ/TW. The Government issued Resolution No. 140/NQ-CP dated May 17, 2025 on the Government's Action Program to implement Resolution No. 66-NQ/TW of the Politburo, in which, 49 tasks with specific roadmaps and progress were identified. All 22 ministries, ministerial-level agencies, government agencies, 34 provinces and centrally run cities have issued Programs or Plans to implement the Resolution, in which, a number of ministries, branches and localities have established Steering Committees to implement Resolution No. 66-NQ/TW.

Following the leadership and direction of the Party, the orientations in Resolution No. 66-NQ/TW, the National Assembly, the Government, the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuracy, and relevant agencies have made efforts and responsibilities to innovate thinking in law-making, closely coordinated and promptly institutionalized the Party's guidelines and policies, strategic resolutions of the Politburo, created a full legal corridor, met the requirements of arranging and streamlining the apparatus of the political system, building and operating a model of local government at 02 levels, promoting decentralization, delegation of power, reforming administrative procedures, promptly removing difficulties and obstacles, and unlocking resources for national development. Resolution No. 66-NQ/TW is an important political basis for competent authorities to make many strategic decisions, unprecedented in law-making work, eliminating the thinking of "if you can't manage, then ban", turning institutions from "bottlenecks of bottlenecks" into national competitive advantages, paving the way for development. In particular, the goal of "by 2025, basically completing the removal of "bottlenecks" due to legal regulations" is achieved as determined in Resolution No. 66-NQ/TW of the Politburo.

The National Assembly, the Government, ministries, branches and localities have proactively and flexibly innovated methods of operation and creativity in implementing functions and tasks, adapting to practical situations to complete a large and massive volume of legislative work for the term. Notably, in 2025 alone, the Government submitted to the National Assembly for approval a Resolution amending and supplementing a number of articles of the 2013 Constitution; 99 laws and resolutions on legal norms - a record number of projects, draft laws and resolutions; the Government issued 377 decrees and resolutions on legal norms; ministries and branches have drafted, submitted to promulgate or issued 1,404 documents under their authority - the most in the entire term; localities have issued 13,000 legal documents.

Law enforcement work has been directed with attention, closely following Resolution No. 66-NQ/TW, focusing on reviewing and removing bottlenecks in law and reforming administrative procedures, especially in areas directly related to people's lives such as land, environment, health, education, science - technology, social security, etc. The work of inspection, handling, reviewing, consolidating, and systematizing legal documents has increasingly become routine and has undergone fundamental changes. The mechanism for dialogue, reception and handling of feedback and recommendations from people and businesses has been focused on by ministries and branches with outstanding results. Difficulties in financial mechanisms for law-making have been resolved...

It can be affirmed that Resolution No. 66-NQ/TW marks a strategic breakthrough in innovation in law making and enforcement, truly a " call for" for a profound institutional reform, contributing to perfecting the socialist rule of law state in a modern, effective and efficient direction and taking people and businesses as the center. The implementation of the Resolution has had a comprehensive and strong impact on the work of perfecting institutions and laws of the entire political system from the central to local levels, which has been agreed, welcomed and responded to by agencies and organizations in the political system, the majority of people, lawyers, and the business community. The results of implementing Resolution No. 66-NQ/TW have created clear changes with many breakthrough contents in the work of building and perfecting institutions and laws, meeting the requirements of national development.

* The achievements as mentioned by the Minister are very clear. But in your opinion, are there any limitations that need to be noted for the breakthrough policies of Resolution No. 66-NQ/TW to come into life, making institutions a sustainable national competitive resource?

In addition to the above results, the development of programs and action plans to implement Resolution No. 66-NQ/TW of the Politburo and Resolution No. 140/NQ-CP of the Government in a number of ministries, branches and localities is still slow. The work of building and perfecting laws in some places has not received due attention. There is still a situation of slow issuance of documents detailing the implementation of laws and regulations.

- The current legal system still lacks an overall design to meet the requirements of the new situation, especially the requirements of socio-economic development, digital transformation, international integration and national governance model innovation.

In addition, the organization of law enforcement is still a weak link. The work of disseminating, educating the law, and communicating policies in some agencies and units is still formal, not flexible in closely following issues of public concern or need to orient public opinion. The application of digital transformation in some agencies has not been invested in synchronously, the technology infrastructure and legal database in some places are not complete, not convenient for information lookup and processing...

Review and immediately institutionalize major viewpoints and policies in the Party Congress Documents into laws

* 2026 is the first year of implementing the Resolution of the 14th National Party Congress and also a pivotal year in continuing to implement Resolution No. 66-NQ/TW. So what are the major priority focuses in 2026, Minister?

2026 is of special importance in realizing the Party's resolutions. The top priority focus is to focus on leadership and direction to review and institutionalize the major policies stated in the documents of the 14th Congress and 09 Strategic Resolutions of the Politburo, closely following the 2026 Work Program of the Central Steering Committee on perfecting institutions and laws. Focus on building a "Logic system improvement strategy in the new era" towards the goal of perfecting the legal system with a reasonable, complete, democratic, fair, synchronous, unified, public, transparent, feasible and stable structure. At the same time, it will serve as a basis for orienting the development of legislative orientations for terms and annual legislative programs to ensure proactiveness, flexibility and adaptability to practical requirements in the new era. In addition, in 2026, it is necessary to focus on amending and supplementing legal documents related to the organization of local government at 2 levels and handling documents adjusted by the Resolution of the Government and the National Assembly Standing Committee according to special mechanisms, handling difficulties and problems due to legal regulations, ensuring completion before March 1, 2027 according to Resolution 206/2025/QH15 of the National Assembly and the Law on Organization of Local Government.

Second, pay attention to and invest in legislative techniques and draft documents in a professional, scientific, feasible and effective manner. Accordingly, focus on developing and perfecting the National Law Drafting Handbook, standards, legislative technical guidance and related projects, serving the training, fostering and coaching of law-making staff, aiming to standardize processes, improve professional capacity, professional responsibility and professionalism of law-making staff.

Third, focus on perfecting institutions and effectively implementing document consolidation activities. The consolidation of documents needs to be strongly innovated in the direction that the consolidated documents are the official basis in the context and application of the law; submitted to competent authorities and persons at the same time as the amended and supplemented legal documents; simplified the consolidation technique; supplemented regulations on the consolidation of legal documents of local state agencies and expanded the scope of the consolidated documents.

Fourth, continue to improve the national database on legal documents; build a Big Data Project on Law; comprehensively transform digital in disseminating legal education, applying artificial intelligence in legal solutions. Develop and effectively operate the National Law Portal in policy and legal information; interactive channels between the State and people and businesses in the digital environment; receive and process feedback and recommendations on legal documents, create a forum for giving advice on perfecting institutions in the digital environment.

* Sincerely thank the Minister!

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