National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man offered incense in tribute to late Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, former Chairman of the 11th and 12th National Assembly, and late State President Tran Dai Quang, and paid a visit to former NA Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung on January 28 on the occasion of the 96th founding anniversary of the Communist Party of Viet Nam and the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet).

Chairman of the National Assembly (NA) Tran Thanh Man had meeting with visiting General Secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) Central Committee and President of Laos Thongloun Sisoulith on January 26, affirming the Vietnamese NA's commitment to expanding cooperation with its Lao counterpart to new areas, contributing to the two countries' parliamentary ties and their special relationship.

The Party Committee of the National Assembly (NA) convened a conference on January 26 to provide a briefing on the outcomes of the 14th National Party Congress, under the chair of Politburo member, Secretary of the NA Party Committee and NA Chairman Tran Thanh Man.

The 14th National Party Congress has outlined strategic directions for national development, placing institutional refinement and the building of a socialist rule-of-law state at the core, with the Party organisation of the National Assembly (NA) acting as the political nucleus guiding the legislature in fully exercising its constitutional, legislative, supervisory and decision-making roles.

Over its 80-year history, under the leadership of the Communist Party of Viet Nam, the National Assembly of Viet Nam has continued to develop and renew itself, gradually improving the quality, effectiveness, and efficiency of its operations, and increasingly affirming its firm position and role as the highest representative body of the people and the highest state power body of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam.

National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man on January 14 presented certificates of merit from the NA Standing Committee to three collectives and 11 individuals for their outstanding performance in the legislature’s digital transformation in 2025.

National Assembly (NA) Vice Chairmen Le Minh Hoan and Vu Hong Thanh separately visited the northern provinces of Lai Chau and Son La on January 13 to inspect preparations for the elections of the 16th NA and People’s Councils at all levels for the 2026–2031 term.

The National Assembly (NA) Office held a conference on January 13 to seek opinions from voters in the workplace about 122 persons nominated by the NA Standing Committee as full-time deputies of central agencies at the 16th NA.

Over the past eight decades, Viet Nam’s National Assembly (NA) has played a central role in safeguarding political stability, ensuring institutional continuity, staying attuned to public aspirations, and turning the country’s development goals into concrete outcomes, according to Rup Narayan Das, a former official of India’s Lok Sabha (lower house).

Over the past 80 years, Viet Nam's National Assembly has made remarkable strides, playing an immensely important role in the cause of national construction and development and truly embodying the nation's democratic regime under the leadership of the Communist Party of Viet Nam.

Over its 15 tenures in the past 80 years, the National Assembly (NA) has significantly contributed to the Party and the nation’s glorious revolutionary cause, deserving as status as the highest representative body of the people, the supreme organ of State power, and a forum where the nation’s intelligence, will, and aspirations are crystallised, NA Chairman Tran Thanh Man has said.

A national ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the country’s first general election took place in Ha Noi on January 6, featuring a keynote speech by Party General Secretary To Lam.

Party and State leaders, along with representatives of different generations of National Assembly deputies, paid tribute to President Ho Chi Minh at his Mausoleum in Ha Noi on the morning of January 6 on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the first general election of Viet Nam (January 6, 1946 – 2026).

Politburo Member Do Van Chien, Standing Vice Chairman of the National Assembly, together with Vice Chairmen of the National Assembly Nguyen Khac Dinh and Nguyen Duc Hai, attended the full rehearsal for the ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of Viet Nam’s first General Election Day (January 6, 1946 – January 6, 2026) in Ha Noi, on January 4.

The Presidential Office held a press conference on December 31 to announce the State President’s order promulgating 14 laws and one ordinance adopted by the 15th-tenure National Assembly and its Standing Committee.

Taking place in the context of the entire political system and local government apparatus continuing to be consolidated and reorganised in accordance with the spirit of the Party Central Committee’s resolutions, the election of representatives to the 16th National Assembly and representatives to the People’s Councils at all levels for the 2026-2031 term is considered an important event for the country.

Politburo member and Standing Vice Chairman of the National Assembly (NA) Do Van Chien, Head of the Organising Committee for the 80th anniversary of Viet Nam’s first general election to the NA, chaired a meeting in Ha Noi on December 30 to finalise preparations for the commemoration, scheduled to take place on January 6, 2026.

Vice Chairwoman of the National Assembly Nguyen Thi Thanh on December 26 received a delegation of the Kimhakmin E-roun Institute for Economic Research led by Prof. Kim Hak-min, head of the Ethics Investigation Advisory Committee of the Republic of Korea (RoK) National Assembly.

The National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee reviewed the legislature’s report on people's aspiration work for October and November during the 52nd session in Ha Noi on December 24.

The Party Committee of the National Assembly (NA) on December 21 held a conference to announce the Politburo’s personnel decision assigning Nguyen Hong Dien to join the NA's Party Committee and its Standing Board, and hold the post of the committee's Deputy Secretary for the 2020–2025 term.