---
title: Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF)
type: governance
status: active
country: VN
website: https://mattran.org.vn
logo: /assets/org-logos/vietnam-fatherland-front.png
contact:
  checked: 2026-07-30
  email: tapchimattrantoquoc@gmail.com
  source: https://mattran.org.vn/contact/
summary: Vietnam's constitutionally mandated consultative umbrella body — 50+ member
  organisations representing professional, religious, ethnic, and social groups —
  structurally analogous to China's CPPCC, operating under the Vietnamese Communist
  Party's single-party framework.
concepts:
- vanguardism
location:
  latitude: 21.0285
  longitude: 105.8542
  name: Hanoi, Vietnam
events:
- date: '1977-02-01'
  title: Founded as the umbrella political coalition under the Communist Party of
    Vietnam, succeeding the North Vietnamese Fatherland Front
  url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_Fatherland_Front
  quote: was founded in February 1977 by the merger
  proof_level: high
  url_checked: '2026-08-10'
  notable: true
activity:
  manual:
    checked: 2026-06-07
    date: 2026-06-07
    note: 'website loaded. News page in front page. Latest news 07/06/2026 ''Khai
      mạc phiên thứ nhất Đại hội đại biểu toàn quốc Hội Nông dân Việt Nam lần thứ
      IX: Gần 600 đại biểu chính thức về dự'''
  dod:
    checked: 2026-07-19
    date: 2026-07-18
    note: Website live with July 2026 content; homepage timestamp and news dated July
      18-19 2026.
    url: https://mattran.org.vn
  sitemap:
    date: 2026-08-17
    note: Page last modified (from sitemap)
    url: https://mattran.org.vn/sitemaps.xml
    checked: 2026-08-17
last_checked: '2026-07-19'
---

> **Note:** The VFF operates within Vietnam's single-party system under Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP) guidance. Its role is constitutionally defined as consultative — representing organised social interests within approved channels, not as an independent political actor. Scholars describe its function as similar to China's [CPPCC](cppcc.md): genuine aggregation of sectoral interests within structurally bounded limits. It is included here as a documented example of managed consultation and as a comparative case alongside the Chinese model.

The Vietnam Fatherland Front (Mặt trận Tổ quốc Việt Nam, VFF) is a constitutional body bringing together over 50 member organisations — trade unions, women's unions, youth organisations, religious bodies, professional associations, and ethnic minority groups. Established in its current form in 1977 (with predecessor organisations dating to 1946), the VFF is constitutionally mandated to "participate in state power, social supervision, and national construction."

The VFF occupies a formally more active role than its Chinese counterpart in one respect: the National Assembly — through which VFF-affiliated candidates run — has documented instances of deputies publicly challenging government ministries, particularly on environmental legislation and land disputes. This has led some comparative politics scholars to characterise the Vietnamese National Assembly as having slightly more substantive deliberative function than China's NPC, though both operate within single-party structural limits.

## Constitutional role

- Nominates candidates for the National Assembly and People's Councils
- Conducts "social supervision" — monitoring government implementation of policy
- Organises consultative processes on legislation
- Coordinates between the party, state, and organised civil society

## Links

- Website: [mattran.org.vn](https://mattran.org.vn)

## See also

- [CPPCC](cppcc.md)
- [Vanguardism and Consultative Democracy](../concepts/vanguardism.md)