(KPL) The National Assembly has received a number of letters, phonecalls and e-mails complaining about various issues and most of them are concerning the transparency of justice officials and economic issues.
“I have realised that justice organisations have made their efforts in improving themselves and resolving the negative shortcomings in the justice system. And of course the problems cannot be resolved in one or two days. It’s something which needs time,” said Minister of Justice Mr. Chaleun Yiapaoheu. Mr. Chaleun said that his ministry held a nation-wide meeting on the malpractice of some government officials in justice system late last month and some necessary actions were approved to reduce the shortcomings in the justice system.
“The participation of the public is needed to tackle the issues,” Mr. Chaleun said. “Social strata should be as eyes and arms of officials, as they should inform the officials when they have seen any officials in justice system perform immorally or abuse their power or involve in any bribery so that we could inspect and take immediate actions against them.” “From receiving such a number of letters from the public we realise that the people pay attention to the sixth ordinary session of the National Assembly, and their eagerness to share points of view with their representatives to resolve the shortcoming in the society,” said Mr. Viseth Savengseuksa, Deputy Head of the National Assembly’s Office.
“Many of them want laws, approved by the National Assembly, to be implemented effectively, especially law on mining and law on investment promotion,” he furthered.
Letters, phone calls and e-mails, which have been constantly flowing into the National Assembly also focus on high inflation which is not adjusted according to the current situation.
They say the good prices remain high and some transport providers remain their high fare although the oil prices have been adjusted downward.
They also ask the government to have concrete policy on or pay an active role in stabilising the prices of agricultural produce such as maize, sugarcane and tea to assure the confidence of farmers. The people also raise their need to have small banknote to circulate in the society to facilitate trading.
Immoral acts of young people at entertainment places, which is a chronic problem, the running of dump trucks along the national roads and the management of industrial factories to ensure they are environmental friendly as well as the increase of public transport vehicles and reduce private luxurious cars also are informed to the National Assembly.
Interesting. I hope lao officials can really progress with those various subjects. It's a good thing to see that they listen to people's concerns. Reading such articles, Laos present the face of a real democracy (more than sometimes my own country, "symbol of democracy" where many unpopular or stupid decisions are taken by our small president and imposed to NA).
I would love to live in Laos. Of course, economical situation is a problem, but Laos goes better and better every year and there are many good business opportunities in Laos (In France or any "developped" country, we have everything we need yet so it's very difficult to build a NEW business, because in all domains you'll have many competitors to fight).
For me, the main issue in Laos is security: - health security (so poor healthcare in Laos) and emergency services (near nothing in Laos) + no effective public social insurance. In my country, i'm used to have some of the best hospitals in the world and strong social insurance. It's very difficult to accept loosing that because it's very impoprtant. - legal security: In Laos if you have good friends and/or money to give to some persons, you can get favourable judicial decision. If you are poor and/or don't have the good friends, you can get many problems and lose everything...
If Laos can solve those two important issues, for sure i'll strongly consider to go to live in Laos and invest there. I appreciale and support the government efforts to improve their country, but the path to reach a good situation is still long.
I also support a lot any decision that goes in favour of sustainable development and environment protection (often difficult to match with the goal of economic growth), but i hope this won't remain just "words on the paper" but a real and applied policy for the country!
