'Lightning-fast' appointment of officials: Those who make wrong recommendations must be punished

Experts say that to avoid the situation of 'lightning-speed' appointment of officials and recommending the wrong people, the recommender must also be punished.

Recently, the appointment of officials in a number of sectors and localities has had many problems that have caused public outrage and raised many questions. These include the "lightning-fast" appointment of Mr. Vu Minh Hoang to become Deputy Director of the Economic Department, Southwest Steering Committee; Director of Hai Duong Department of Home Affairs Pham Van To signed a decision to appoint his son, without taking a civil service exam, to a department-level position; the "lightning-fast" appointment of Ms. Tran Vu Quynh Anh at the Department of Construction of Thanh Hoa province...

Must "clean up" those who do personnel work

According to Associate Professor, Dr. Dao Duy Quat, former Deputy Head of the Central Committee for Ideology and Culture, former Permanent Vice Chairman of the Central Council for Theory and Criticism of Literature and Art, the appointment of relatives, acquaintances, and family members even though they do not meet the standards and conditions for holding management positions, and placement in positions with many benefits, is one of the manifestations of political ideology degradation as identified in Resolution 4 of the 12th Central Committee. This is also a manifestation of "term thinking", focusing only on solving short-term, immediate problems that benefit oneself.

Associate Professor, Dr. Dao Duy Quat.

“The term mindset is when an official only sees his term as an opportunity to do something beneficial for himself, his family, and his children. The term mindset is to take advantage of “selling positions” to those who “buy positions” to get money to get rich illegally… These actions are inappropriate and harmful to the common interest,” Mr. Quat emphasized.

According to Associate Professor, Dr. Dao Duy Quat, based on major cases, wasteful projects, losses of thousands of billions, and agencies appointing and promoting too many deputies, or in a short time promoting from employees to deputy directors, from drivers to deputy institute directors, and chairman of the scientific council, it is very clear that these two signs of degradation occur mainly in two stages: project leveling and staff appointment. "Therefore, this sign is closely linked to the responsibility of the head of the agency. That is the person who has the responsibility and decision-making power for these two stages."

Mr. Nhi Le, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Communist Magazine, said that, over and over again, the most difficult thing is people, especially cadres. When the heart is not pure, small things become big things, when the heart is dark, safety becomes danger.

Mr. Nhi Le, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Communist Magazine.

“There are still many issues surrounding personnel work. What I want to say is that power must be controlled. If the wrong person is recommended, the person who recommended must also be punished,” Mr. Nhi Le suggested.

In addition to the issues of regulations and power control, according to Mr. Nhi Le, it is very important to pay attention to the issues of self-respect and integrity, and to know how to be ashamed. The key issue in cleaning up the cadre work is to focus on cleaning up those who do the cadre work. In addition, there must be specific sanctions. Only then can we rectify things from within. Cadres must be supervised from the grassroots level, and no one can escape the supervision of the people. Only then will there be no "chaos".

All of these processes now have regulations from the Party and the State on resource creation, planning, training, and fostering. The problem is who applies and handles that process. According to Mr. Bui Quang Huy, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, in personnel work, in addition to talent, the heart of those in charge is very important.

“If the person applying the method is conscientious, they will certainly be able to select good staff. If they are not conscientious, no matter how strict our process is, we will never be able to select good staff,” said Mr. Huy.

Once the planning is completed, it must be included in the training roadmap.

According to Mr. Bui Quang Huy, Resolution 4 of the 12th Central Committee has "diagnosed" specific signs of degradation in the work of appointing and recruiting officials so that it can be rectified and improved in the coming time.

In fact, in the work of appointment, recruitment, and staffing, we always have criteria to select virtuous, talented people and young staff. To do this well, we must first have a strategy and plan to train and develop human resources. Even corporations and enterprises today have a strategy for training human resources, not to mention the political system.

Mr. Bui Quang Huy, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union.

First of all, it is the source creation. The source creation needs to be done proactively. Currently, some localities have their own training programs on training their human resources. Thus, with the implementation of those planning strategies and plans, it is necessary to be quite long-term and methodical. They discover potential factors right from the time they are in high school, creating conditions for them to train in the next levels of education such as university, graduate school... to help them develop further. "Of course, through the training and practice process, from the majority, they will gradually screen to "filter" a good team and the next step will be to put it into planning" - Mr. Huy said.

Currently, there is a situation where the quality of human resources is sometimes assessed based only on qualifications and some quantitative criteria, while actual capacity is overlooked. Therefore, although the process is very strict and methodical, incompetent people are selected for specific positions.

“The planning work must also be carried out in accordance with regulations and the training and development of those included in the planning to ensure that they meet the standards of the planned positions is very important. If we have planned them but do not include them in the planning training and development roadmap, it is just a formality,” Mr. Huy commented.

The recent Party Congresses at all levels set a target of 10% of Party committees being young, under 40 years old. However, the Central Committee assessed that many localities did not achieve this target, and this is also an issue that needs to be considered. That means that even when there are good human resources, Party committees must boldly use them to promote them, otherwise the Party's policy will not be put into practice./.

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