Vietnamese Fatherland Front

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Vietnam Fatherland Front Mặt trận Tổ quốc Việt Nam
Abbreviation	VFF MTTQVN
Chairman	Đỗ Văn Chiến
Secretary-General	Nguyễn Thị Thu Hà
Founded	February 1977 (1977-02)
Merger of	(North) Vietnam Fatherland Front National Liberation Front of South Vietnam Alliance of National Democratic and Peaceful Forces of Vietnam
Preceded by	League for Independence of Vietnam
Headquarters	Hanoi
Ideology	Communism Marxism–Leninism Ho Chi Minh Thought Vietnamese nationalism
National Assembly	479 / 500
Website
http://mattran.org.vn/
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Politics of Vietnam
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Constitution History 1946 1959 1980 1992 2013
Communist Party National Party Congress (13th) Central Committee (13th) General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng Politburo (13th) Secretariat (13th) Permanent Member Lương Cường Military Commission (2020–25) Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng Deputy Secretary Phan Văn Giang Inspection Commission (13th) Chairman Trần Cẩm Tú
Legislative National Assembly (14th) Standing Committee Chairman Trần Thanh Mẫn Provincial People's Councils
Presidency President (list) Tô Lâm Vice President Võ Thị Ánh Xuân
Executive Prime Minister (list): Phạm Minh Chính Deputy Prime Ministers: Trần Lưu Quang Trần Hồng Hà Lê Minh Khái Ministries Governor of the State Bank Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs
Fatherland Front Central Committee Chairman: Đỗ Văn Chiến Gen. Secretary: Nguyễn Thị Thu Hà Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union Central Committee First Secretary Bùi Quang Huy Vietnam General Confederation of Labour Viet Nam Farmer's Union Vietnam Women’s Union
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The Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF, alternatively Vietnamese Fatherland Front; Vietnamese: Mặt trận Tổ quốc Việt Nam) is an umbrella group of mass movements and political coalition in Vietnam aligned with the Communist Party of Vietnam that dominates the National Assembly of Vietnam forming the Vietnamese Government and all recognised national socio-political organisations. It was founded in February 1977 by the merger of the Vietnam Fatherland Front of North Vietnam and two Viet Cong formal groups, the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam and the Alliance of National, Democratic, and Peace Forces, and is considered as the modern incarnation of the League for the Independence of Vietnam (Viet Minh). It is an amalgamation of many smaller groups, including the Communist Party itself. Other groups that participated in the establishment of the Front were the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour, the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (a.k.a. the Ho Chi Minh Youth) and the Ho Chi Minh Young Pioneer Organization. It also included the Democratic Party of Vietnam and Socialist Party of Vietnam, until they disbanded in 1988.^[1]

The Front is described by the Vietnamese government as "the political base of people's power." It is intended to have a significant role in society, promoting "national solidarity" and "unity of mind in political and spiritual matters."

Many of the government's social programs are conducted through the Front. Recently, it has been given a role in programs to reduce poverty. The Front is also responsible for much of the government's policy on religion: "1. Everyone has freedom of beliefs and religions, he or she has the right to follow a religion or not to follow any religion. All religions are equal before the law. 2. The state respects and protects freedom of beliefs and religions. 3. No one should violate freedom of beliefs and religions or take advantage of beliefs and religions to infringe the law."^[2][3]

Perhaps more importantly, the Front is intended to supervise the activity of the government and of government organisations. Because the Front's power base is mass participation and popular mobilisation, it is seen as representative of the people, and both Vietnam's constitution and laws give it a special role.