At the 50th session of the National Assembly Standing Committee, Chairperson Trần Thanh Mẫn voiced his frustration with the government, stating that the legislature is often placed in a fait accompli during the lawmaking process. He criticized the government’s practice of submitting documents at the last minute, sometimes in the afternoon, before they were scheduled for a vote.

​“At present, if we strictly follow the Law on Promulgation of Legal Normative Documents, we can’t get anything done—the timeline just doesn’t allow it,” Mẫn remarked. He elaborated with a literary analogy: “At least three to five days are needed. We are not the Monkey King from Journey to the West—you cannot send the documents this afternoon and expect us to study and vote on them by tomorrow.”