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VIETNAM ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES GRADUATE ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES ANH TUAN NGUYEN THE ROLE OF SOCIO-POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS IN CONTROLLING OVER THE GOVERNMENT POWER IN VIETNAM Major: Political Science Major code: 31 02 01 SUMMARY OF DOCTORAL THESIS IN POLITICS HA NOI - 2020 This dissertation is completed at: Graduate Academy of Social Sciences Name of Supervisors: Prof - Dr.Sc Son Xuan Phan Assoc.Prof - Dr Quang Xuan Ho Referee 1: Assoc.Prof – Dr Luu Van Quang Referee 2: Chu Van Thanh Referee 3: Assoc.Prof – Dr Nguyen Thi Viet Huong The dissertation will be defended by the Academy-level Thesis Examination Committee met at the Graduate Academy of Social Sciences at hours minutes, on day month… year… The thesis can be found at: National library of Vietnam Library of Graduate Academy of Scocial Siences LIST OF REFERENCES RELATED TO THE THESIS Ho Xuan Quang - Nguyen Tuan Anh (2018), The Party’s awareness development on state power control, Political theory, Vol.19-DEC 2018 Nguyen Tuan Anh (2019), Effective monitoring of the exercise of state power by the Vietnam Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations in Vietnam today, Ho Chi Minh city Social Sciences Review, No 7-2019 Nguyen Tuan Anh (2019), Situation and solutions to improve the effectiveness of social criticism of the Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations in Vietnam today, Vietnam Journal of social science Manpower, No (74) 2019 Nguyen Tuan Anh (2019), Discussion about the inevitability of controlling the power of the state, Journal of Education and Society, No 101 (162)/8/2019 Ho Xuan Quang - Nguyen Tuan Anh (2019), Issues in terms of power control in process of building the Vietnamese tectonic government, in Proceedings of “The 1st annual international conference on sustainable development in the cantral Vietnam”, The theme of 2019: “Building and operating an enabling government: Current situations in Vietnam and experience of other nations” ABSTRACT Urgency of this subject The powers of government and the governance of these powers are central to the political system of any country Generally speaking, powers of the federal government are one of the most basic tools to sustain the order and the improvement of a society through ensuring the national security derived from both external as well as internal conflicts, to provide resources and community services which could not be supplied by the individuals or society themselves Nevertheless, the government powers normally engage in twofaced issues One is relevant to the necessary factors facilitating the organization and administration of a society; on the other hand, they also involve in the threats of deterioration which could result in the government’s totalitarianism or authotarianism Therefore, the existence of government powers has to certainly associate with a particular mechanism for controlling powers to ensure they are utilised efficiently and purposely In fact, a number of approaches are viable to the governance of these powers, including internal political system resided inside the government, or other systems that are externally founded Among the organisations elected by the people, socio-political organisations possess a lot of more competitive advantages to effectively control the powers of the federal government These organisations are an integral part of a civil society, functioning as the protector of all social classes and aiming at influencing the government, changing the government’s policies that may be beneficial to them backwardly The socio-political organisations in Vietnam have initially indicated their contribution to engaging a greater participation of the people in works related to the government, which facilitates a process of transitioning the current model of government formation regarding bureaucracy and centralisation of powers into a tectonic state However, these organisations are facing a huge number of difficulties, challenges, along with limits associated with a massive impact on their control over the government powers In response to the requirement of “continuously maintaining democratic socialism, guaranteeing all powers belong to the people” in a uniquely one-party system, researching on theories and practices, which would latterly be based on to propose solutions to improving controlling efficiency for the aforementioned socio-political organisations, are highly required at the moment In terms of that, the author comes up with the topic of “The role of socio-political organizations in controlling over the government power in Vietnam” as the guiding light for this thesis Purpose and mission of this paper 2.1 Purpose The purpose of this thesis is to clarify theoretical and practical issues regarding control over the government’s powers of the existing socio-political organisations Based on that, some persepectives and solutions so as to enhance the effectiveness of Vietnamese sociopolitical organisations’ administration of the aforementioned powers in the current time would be proposed 2.2 Mission - This paper aims at systematising theoretical basis for controlling powers of the government; gaining a deeper insight into these existing socio-political organisations; into their roles, content and effectiveness in control over the governement’s powers - Explorating how foreign socio-political organisations control over the powers of their government would be utilised as the role model for the case of Vietnam - This evaluates achievements, drawbacks, causes of limitations in the act of controling the government power from Vietnamese sociopolitical organisations - Developing the established persepectives and solutions in order to improve socio-political organisations’ efficiency in the management of government power Target and scope of research 3.1 Target of the research This dissertation targets at socio-political organisations’ issues relevant to their control over government powers in Vietnam at the moment 3.2 Scope of research 3.2.1 Content scope: This research is undertaken to explore the process of controlling over the government powers of the Vietnamese socio-political organisations in terms of their roles, content, means, legality and productivity 3.2.2 Geographical scope: The specific region of this research is limited to the country of Vietnam Yet, this paper also leverages the way of how other foreign socio-political organisations currently performing in their countries of origin 3.2.3 Time scope: This study is primarily based on the context of the reform policy launched in Vietnam in 1986 known as ‘Doi Moi’ Research questions and hypotheses 4.1 Research questions - What is the control over the government powers? What is the inevitability, content and the means of management of controlling the government powers? - What are the socio-political organisations? Which parts are they playing in the act of controlling these government powers? - How are the local socio-political organisations performing in a comparison with other foreign organisations in terms of control over the government powers? - Within the specified context of Vietnam’s one-party system, how essentially are these socio-political organisations currently playing in the act of managing the powers of the government? - What kind of perspectives or solutions need to be implemented in order to enhance the effectiveness of these control over the government powers currently? 4.2 Research hypotheses - Socio-political organisations have an objective and integral role in controlling government powers - In case the separation of powers within a government is not utilised or in the absence of multiple parties is visible, the local socio-political organisations’ role in monitoring the government powers is not only objective but is also perceived as one of the most important means of management of these powers - These organisations associate with massive abilities to effectively control government powers Research methodology and approach 5.1 Research methodology papper offers a main methodology based on dialectical materialism and historical materialism Moreover, this subject also relies on the theoretical basis of Ho Chi Minh Thoughts; viewpoint as well as revolution lines of Vietnamese Conmmunist Party; relevant political theories regarding management, implementation and arrangement of government powers 5.2 Research approach A number of major approaches were used in this research including the approaches of referring the works of others, analytical approach, an approach of systemic analysis, the structural-functional approach, and also the comparative politics Scientific contribution of the dissertation First of all, this dissertation systematises, analyses theoretical basis for socio-political organisations; gains a deeper insight into these existing socio-political organisations; into their roles, content and effectiveness in control over the government powers Secondly, it evaluates the actual state of Vietnamese sociopolitical organisations in terms of achievements, achievements, drawbacks, causes of limitations in the act of controling the government powers Lastly, some perspectives and solutions facilitating the effectiveness of controlling government power of socio-political organisations are proposed for the coming years Theoretical and practical implication of the dissertation Theoretical aspect - It partly involves in changing existing perception towards socio-political organisations and their roles in controlling government powers Practical aspect – This paper participates in provding scientific basis for organisations to refer, implement them into practice; hence, they would be able to enhance the effectiveness of controlling government powers This work may also be leveraged as a reference point for researching, teaching and studying politics as well as other social science subjects Structure of the dissertation Except the introduction, conclusion, reference list, this paper consists of chapters and 12 sections Chapter AN OVERVIEW OF THE RESEARCH’S ACTUAL STATE AND ISSUES REQUIRED FURTHER RESEARCH 1.1 LIST OF RESEARCH PAPERS REGARDING THE CONTROL OVER GOVERNMENT POWER 1.1.1 Foreign research papers There are two main directions in assessing researches of control over government powers all over the world In terms of the first direction, political scientists frequently head towards the exploration of efficient methods that all government departments are able to monitor and influence one another In regard to the second way, the researchers believe that government power is united and built upon the basis of people’s authority; therefore, people are actually considered as the dominating entity controlling government power In respect of other perspectives, a number of research works many factors functioning as the environment as well as conditions for effectively controlling government power 1.1.2 Domestic research papers The existing domestic research papers have clarified a number of basic elements including inevitability, definition, content and means of managing government power; evaluated the current state of arrangement, operation of entities in the act of controlling as well as mechanism for controling the government power; proposed some solutions to the facilitation and completion of mechanism for the current control over government power 1.2 RESEARCH PAPERS REGARDING SOCIO-POLITICAL ORGANISATIONS AND THEIR CONTROL OVER GOVERNMENT POWER IN THE WORLD CONTEXT Socio-political organisations in different countries are named distinctively such as interest groups, pressure groups, lobby groups, associations, social organisations, etc The research papers undertaken by many scholars all over the world have contributed to clarifying numerous issues of interest groups in terms of concept, root causes, characteristics, role, categories These works also provide an insight into the procedures that interest groups have leveraged to organise the populace, which would not only influence the process of planning and implementing public policies but also involve in controlling the government power Either negative or positive impacts of the interest groups on the plan and implementation of public policies are also examined, along with their effect on control over power of the government 1.3 RESEARCH PAPERS REGARDING SOCIO-POLITICAL ORGANISATIONS AND THEIR CONTROL OVER GOVERNMENT POWER IN THE CONTEXT OF VIETNAM The study of this field has just been emerged in the last few decades A number of theoretical and practical issues in relation to these socio-political organisations and their role in the control over the government power were studied at different levels Additionally, these studies also noticeably evaluated the actual state of the local socio-political organisations They proposed the general directions, solutions in order to enhance these socio-political organisations’ role in the present political system and also ensure people’s democracy as well as the control over government power 1.4 ISSUES REQUIRED FURTHER RESEARCH 1.4.1 The aforementioned contents relevant to the selected subject Firstly, these research papers partly devoted to clarifying theoretical and practical issues of control over government power in terms of definition, inevitability, purpose, content, procedures, etc Secondly, the concept of socio-political organisations, their roles authorised offices such as functional regulation of the authorised offices, monitoring, evaluating, investigating the authorised department’s their performances and social criticism 2.1.2 The inevitability of control over government power: Exercising control over the government power is unavoidable since the government power, which performs as the representation of people, frequently associates with the risk of improper use in contrast to its proposed objectives The inevitability may also come from the fact that people are naturally egoist and hungry for power; hence, they would probably take advantage of such an authorised power to satisfy their personal demand Moreover, government power is exclusively enforced, which will pose a massive threat to the society unless it is appropriately utilised Lastly, the limit of human knowledge is yet another factor leading the authorised officials to potential mistakes of implementing the government power 2.1.3 Procedures of control over government power - Constraining power of the government by the implementation of constitution and law - Control over the government power exercised within the governing body - Control over the government power undertaken outside the governing body 2.2 REASONING ON THE CONTROL OVER GOVERNMENT POWER OF SOCIO-POLITICAL ORGANISATIONS 2.2.1 The concept of socio-political organisations Socio-political organisations are an integral element of the civil society, which are closely connected to the affair of the state These organisations aim at being influential, having a potential impact on government policies Socio-political organisations in different countries are named distinctively such as interest groups, pressure 10 groups, lobby groups, associations, social organisations, etc, depending on their actual roles Nevertheless, they all share one thing in common – their affairs are either relevant to politics or sociality; therefore, they are commonly called socio-political organisations Socio-political organisations are generally performing for the benefits of some particular groups and some specified social communities through the methods influencing on the government and political parties (but not directly involve in seizing state power) 2.2.2 Socio-political organisations’ roles in controlling government power Firstly, the socio-political organisations provide the basis and resources for controlling government power Secondly, these socio-political organisations contribute to encouraging the people’s democracy and their abilities of exercising self-management as well as dealing with the centralisation of powers Thirdly, these socio-political organisations also facilitate the involvement of people in the state affairs and contribute to the control over government power Lastly, these socio-political organisations take part in monitoring and debating on the government affairs 2.2.3 Content and procedures of socio-political organisations’ control over government power 2.2.3.1 The content Firstly, concerning the control of organising government power In other words, examining the methods of organising government power and the election process of authorised officials Secondly, controlling the operating process of the governing body via aspects: control over planning activities and introducing state policies; control over the organisation of performing government power; control over the acts of protecting laws relevant to judicial 11 branch and court Lastly, controlling the officials who are authorised to perform the government power in order to ensure the effective enforcement of constitutions, laws, political commitment and moral standard 2.2.3.2 The procedures Firstly, the socio-political organisations control the government power through the establishment of social opinions Secondly, the socio-political organisations control the government power via the activites of consulting, counterarguing the proposed polices of think tanks Thirdly, the socio-political organisations basically leverage lobbying as a way of controlling power of the government Lastly, the socio-political organisations also control the government power by expressing their collective opinions and attitudes as a method of generating pressure on the government (nonviolent protests, legal strike, etc) 2.2.4 How effective are socio-political organisations in controlling government power? The effectiveness of the socio-political organisations’control over the government power is as a result of their findings, petitions and propositions after their process of control, within the interrelated relationship with the verified objects and the total spending on these controlling processes Measuring the effectiveness of socio-political organisations’ control over the government power bases on a number of criteria and quantity In fact, the effectiveness of control is influenced by many factors: the legality of mechanism for controlling the government power; the socio-political organisations’ proficiency of organising and performing; the quality of these socio-politial organisations’ workers; their financial resources, facilities and specialised 12 techniques for exercising control over government power; the operating procedures of the political system; the involved political culture, or people’s positive attitude towards the process of controlling government power 2.3 HOW FOREIGN SOCIO-POLITICAL ORGANISATIONS ARE CONTROLLING THE GOVERNMENT POWER AND THE REFERENE POINTS FOR VIETNAM This dissertation examined the practical control over government power in the countries of United States, Germany and China and would use them as the references for a particular case of Vietnam Initially, promoting the independence, creativity, flexibility of the socio-political organisations in exercising control over the government power Generally, it requires an orientation of these organistions’ towards ‘democratization’, a generation of a greater level of independence regarding planning and operating aspects, financial autonomy so as to effectively monitor the democracy Secondly, it is necessary to build and complete the legal framework of controlling the government power for the sociopolitical organisations Lastly, extending the participation of people in the activities of controlling government power In other words, a requirement of building public forums for people, which engage them in ‘consultation and democratic dialogue’, has to be taken into consideration This should be done in order to promote the people’s sense of mastery, which may lead to a better performance in examining, controlling and counterarguing all government affairs 13 Chapter THE ACTUAL STATE OF VIETNAMESE SOCIOPOLITICAL ORGANISATIONS IN CONTROLLING GOVERNMENT POWER 3.1 POLITICAL-LEGAL POSITION OF THE VIETNAMESE SOCIO-POLITICAL ORGANISATIONS CURRENTLY 3.1.1 Socio-political organisations’ current position and role in Vietnam In Vietnam, a number of socio-political organisations are legally acceptable at the moment including: Vietnam Fatherland Front, Vietnam Trade Union, the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, the Federation of Vietnamese Women and Veterans Association of Vietnam These socio-political organisations are an integral part of Vietnamese political system in the process of democratic negotiation Although they coordinate for collective action, they are also concerned about their independence On behalf of an essential component of the political system, these socio-political organisations associate with legal basis for participating in the government activities, exercising the control over government power 3.1.2 Function and mission of Vietnamese socio-political organisations Generally speaking, any individual organisation possesses distinctive goals, principles and rules Nevertheless, they all share two common functions in term of politics and sociality These socio-political organisations are currently playing a role of “political basis for people’s government; presenting and protecting people’s legal rights and interests; integrating and promoting the power of country’s great solidarity, implementing democracy, improving social consensus; monitoring and socially counterarguing; participating in enhancing the existing party, federal government, and the external affairs of interacting 14 with people so as to build and protect the country” 3.2 FACTORS INFLUENCING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF VIETNAMESE SOCIO-POLITICAL ORGANISATIONS’ CONTROL OVER THE GOVERNMENT POWER 3.2.1 Legal basis for exercising control over government power of socio-political organisations The legal basis for exercising control over government power of socio-political organisations is consistently reinforced and completed All of the legal provisions regarding entities, subjects, contents, forms, procedures of control over government power for socio-political organisations have been conceptualised to a certain extent Nevertheless, the regulation of exercising control over government power for the socio-political organisations is distributed to different legal documents In fact, some of them seem to be too general There is a shortage of mandatory provision and sanction related to the responsibles for responding and explaining from the governing body, given that the socio-political organisations’ propositions and petitions have been received 3.2.2 Socio-political organisations’ planning and operating characteristics Firstly, socio-political organisations in Vietnam are founded and led by the Communist Party Secondly, these socio-political organisations are established in line with the State administrative appatus from Central level to provincial, city, district and communal levels Thirdly, all of the socio-political organisations associate with political and social function Yet, during the first stages, especially the stages of national liberation struggle, the political function is more emphasized 3.2.3 Proficiency of socio-political organisations’ officials in 15 the control over government power The exisiting socio-political organisations have paid more attention to the enhancement of their officials as a response to the requirement of practical activites in a new period of history Howevers, due to the lack of officials associated with professional qualification for exercising control over government power, the authorised officials, who are currently responsible for monitoring and counterarguing, basically associate with relatively limited capabilities Consequently, exercising control over government power at many regions is “pure formality, primarily focuses on giving advices on typing techniques” 3.2.4 Actual state of financial resources, facilities and techniques for exercising control over government power Funding for the activities of monitor and social countrarguing is “allocated to the annual budget estimation of both Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front as well as the local socio-political organisations” However, for the time being, the Vietnamese socio-political organisations are facing a lot of challenges due to the lack of independent financial resources for the control over government power Besides, seeking better ways of generating different sources of income to fund for the control over government power are not seriously considered by the Vietnamese socio-political organisations 3.2.5 Impacts of model of political system on the sociopolitical organisations’ control over the government power In fact, a unique feature of the Vietnamese political system is relevant to centralised government, in which there is only a single party in power This model involves in two-faced influences on sociopolitical organisations’ effectiveness of control over government power Obviously, the total leadership of the Communist Party of 16 Vietnam on these socio-political organisations would probably result in a unity between opposing entities in order to effectively achieve the common goals In spite of that, this unfortunately prevents these sociopolitical organisations from independently operating, especially in the control over government power As a result of an interdependent relationship with the government, these socio-political organisations’ performance could not remain detached and effective with the direct involvement of the government 3.2.6 Level of social engagement in the socio-political organisations’ control over government power The socio-political government were more concerned about the increase in social engagement In terms of Central level, the roles of typical individuals, collaborators, experts and scientists of different fields have been promoted Regarding the further regional level, exercising control over government power has attracted more and more engagement of the local Nevertheless, control over government power is mostly organised by the central and local People’s Committee of these socio-political organisations Promoting a wide network of monitor and pressures such as mass media pressure or social pressure is not extremely taken into consideration, which poses a threat to the control over government power in terms of lack of transparency and efficiency 3.3 CONTENTS, PROCEDURES AND EFFECTIVENESS OF SOCIO-POLITICAL ORGANISATIONS’ CONTROL OVER GOVERNMENT POWER 3.3.1 How socio-political organisations control the organisation of government power Firstly, controlling the formation of authorised government departments via involving in and monitoring the election process of parliarment and people’s council deputies at all levels 17 Secondly, controlling the selection of judges, surveyor or People’s jury 3.3.2 Socio-political’s control over operating process of the state apparatus Firstly, controlling the formulation and establishment of national policies and laws through a number of procedures such as involving in regulating or socially counterarguing Secondly, controlling the authorised government departments’ organisation and enforcement of law by: calling a meeting for monitoring the enforcement of laws; reflecting opinions as well as requests of people and voters; involving in dealing with requests and accusations; participating in preventing corruption and waste of resources; monitoring in terms of People’s Inspection boards or Conmmunity Investment Supervision Boards Lastly, controlling the protection of laws regarding monitoring the legality and constitutionality of legal documents; monitoring the judical institution’s process of enforcing the procedure code 3.3.3 Socio-political organisations’ control over the performance of government officials A number of primary methods have been identified in terms of undertaking a vote of confidence for the most essential positions, monitoring the performance of the state officials or communists within the residential areas 3.3.4 A general review of the effectiveness of socio-political organisations’ control over government power 3.3.4.1 Results achieved during the process of controlling the government power Firstly, the local socio-political oganisations are becoming more and more actively on organising particular programs and plans for the control over government power Secondly, these socio-political organisations have indicated their attempt 18 in diversifying the current forms of control over government power Thirdly, few of the proposed methods have been going on the right track, which leads to the practical effectiveness Eventually, the quantity and quality of discoveries, propositions from socio-political organisations’ control over government power have noticeably risen recently 3.3.4.2 Drawbacks and their causes in exercising control over government power of socio-political organisations Firstly, the socio-political organisations are not actually exercising the control based on the legal laws Secondly, some of these organisations’ control over government power are pure formality Thirdly, these organisations are lack of the capabilities to gather the social forces and promote roles of social resources in the process of exercising control Fourthly, the actual quantities of requests and propositions have not associated with academic theories Eventually, legal effect and effectiveness of practical performance of control over government power remain quite low Causes: Firstly, awareness of socio-political organisations’ role in controlling government power is limited Secondly, the Vietnamese socio-political organisations are in need of independence to exercise control over government power Thirdly, operating and planning activities of these socio-political organisations have not completely satisfied the requirement of control over government power Lastly, mechanism of control over government power of these organisations are inconsistent; mechanism for cooperating and responding of the target objects are not clarified or massively influenced 19 Chapter PERSPECTIVES AND SOLUTIONS TO ENHANCE EFFECTIVENESS OF SOCIO-POLITICAL ORGANISATIONS’ CURRENT CONTROL OVER GOVERNMENT POWER 4.1 PERSPECTIVES ON IMPROVING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SOCIO-POLITICAL ORGANISATIONS’ CONTROL OVER GOVERNMENT POWER Enhancing the efficiency of control over government power has to comply with principal perspectives A process of improving the effectiveness needs to involve innovating and strengthening the political system; complying with the proposed standard of a socialist rule of law state; fulfilling the movement of democratizing social life; yet, it has to shift towards international values and standard 4.2 SOLUTIONS TO ENHANCING THE EFFICIENCY OF SOCIOPOLITICAL ORGANISATIONS’ CONTROL OVER GOVERNMENT POWER 4.2.1 Building the socio-political organisations towards independence and self-control Firstly, changing current awareness of the socio-political’s roles in controlling government power In fact, we need to perceive that the socio-political organisations’ control over government power is an objective necessity, which exists independently regardless of present institution of power control in our country Secondly, legalising the control of the Communist Party over these socio-political organisations as well as general organisations in today’s political system Thirdly, completing legal basis for the management of the government on these socio-political organisations and their activities Fourthly, formulating a suitable plan for “removing the governing body of Vietnamese Fatherland Front and other socio-political 20 organisations from the civil service system and bureaucracy Fifthly, proposing a step-by-step process of eliminating the provision of financial subsidy and building a new mechanism of financial selfmanagement for the socio-political organisations Lastly, conducting a process innovation regarding the employment of key positions for these socio-political organisations 4.2.2 Organizational as well as operational innovation and an improvement of current quality of these socio-political organisations’ officials as a response to the control over government power Organisational and operational innovation of these socio-political organisations have to be based on the foundation of respecting and promoting the unique position of Vietnamese Fatherland Front as well as other mass organisations In addition to this, such an innovation needs to pay more attention to enhancing the requirement of control over government power and promoting democracy Innovating these socio-political organisations should be directed towards simplizing the governing body, advancing the operational standard and efficiency to appropriately function their actual roles Innovation must also associate with the particular stages of improving quality of typical individuals and collaborators from these socio-political organisations, concerning the requirements of control over government power 4.2.3 Finalising the national law system in terms of control over government power of socio-political organisations It is necessary to continue the process of building and finalising the legal basis for control over government power of socio-political organisations This should be directed towards adding and finalising the legal regulation regarding monitoring and social counterarguing of socio-political organisations; continually researching and enacting new regulation for these organisations; building grassroots democracy act; continually modifying and finalising laws related to congressional 21 election and the election of People’s Committee; completing rules in respect to delegation waiver, citizen criticism and accusation, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of accessing to information, publicly state and justify the government operation; implementing new law on the eferendum; researching on building and passing laws related to lobbying; modifying laws relevant to enacting legal documents which must be oriented towards transparency and objectivity and be opened to more social involvement 4.2.4 Diversifying form of control over government power and broadening the social involvement in controlling government power of socio-political organisations Firstly, enhancing quality and effectiveness of socio-political organisations existing forms of exercising control over government power Secondly, generating a lot of more theoretical researches, summarizing practices and referring to world’s experiences in order to diversify the present forms of control over government power Thirdly, associating with other forms of control over government power with a view to enhancing efficiency of management Fourthly, building coordination mechanisms and united actions between distinctive socio-political organisations in planning and organising control over government power Fifthly, diversifying forms of combining forces, building mechanism for promoting roles of individual organisations within a political union which is led by Vietnamese Fatherland Front to partly control government power Sixthly, promoting the particular roles of typical individuals, experts, consulting departments and collaborators in exercising control over government power Seventhly, extending the involvement of all social classes in sociopolitical organisations’ exercising control over government power 22 CONCLUSION In a nutshell, control over government power is basically related to establishing procedures and mechanism for preventing, detecting and eliminating government misconduct and modifying the enforcement of power so as to ensure the rightness and effectiveness Additionally, exercising control over government is an objective neccesity of any nation and is processed through many methods which could be happening either inside or outside the governing body The socio-political organisations are an integral part of the civil society, which are closely connected to the affairs of the state These organisations aim at being influential, having a potential impact on government policies Socio-political organisations in different countries are named distinctively such as interest groups, pressure groups, lobby groups, associations, social organisations, etc, depending on their actual roles Nevertheless, they all share one thing in common - their affairs are either relevant to politics or sociality; therefore, they are commonly called socio-political organisations The Vietnamese socio-political organisations, which were founded and led by the Communist Party of Vietnam during the period of revolution war, contributed massively to the national liberation Within a new term of history, these organisations are an essential element of the political system and a political basis for people’s government Additionally, they also perform their function as a protector of the rights of its citizens, monitor and counterargue to the government, encourage the process of democratizing social life The process of innovating and strengthening political system and building Socialist Rule of Law in a new era of innovation has gradually generated basic conditions for the socio-political organisations to function their role of controlling government power Exercising control over government power of socio-political organisations has steadily processed on the 23 right track; their findings, petition and propositions derived from the control over government power are more and more considered and have indicated practical effectiveness Nonetheless, the control over government power of socio-political organisations has not completely fulfilled their potential and strengths, as well as the requirement of promoting democracy in a political system of a single party These limitations are due to a lot of objectives and subjective reasons However, a primary reason comes from the fact that these organisations have not adopted an entire independence to exercise control over government power A movement towards democratization of social life requires consistently ehancing the efficiency of control over government power of the socio-political organisations Consequently, such a process should be conducted along with innovating and strengthening the political system and must be complied with the principles of a socialist rule of law state; promotes the people’s sense of mastery over their own life and accesses global value and standard Enhancing efficiency of control over government power of sociopolitical organisations is perceived as a challenging and complicated process, which requires consistently exercising a number of different solutions varying from perceptual to practical level in order to improve the intrinsic capabilities of these socio-political organisations and finalise the necessary conditions of ensuring control efficiency Generally, an action needs to be immediately taken is to build the existing socio-political organisations towards a greater level of independence; constantly innovating the organisation, activites and quality of the officials so as to satisfy the demand of control over government power; finalising legal basis; diversifying all forms of controlling, extending the involvement of citizens in the affairs of controlling government power with a view to facilitating the efficiency 24 ... moment including: Vietnam Fatherland Front, Vietnam Trade Union, the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, the Federation of Vietnamese Women and Veterans Association of Vietnam These socio-political... Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations in Vietnam today, Vietnam Journal of social science Manpower, No (74) 2019 Nguyen Tuan Anh (2019), Discussion about the inevitability of controlling... POLITICAL-LEGAL POSITION OF THE VIETNAMESE SOCIO-POLITICAL ORGANISATIONS CURRENTLY 3.1.1 Socio-political organisations’ current position and role in Vietnam In Vietnam, a number of socio-political