End the situation of 'mixing good and bad' in evaluating cadres

According to Mr. Le Van Cuong, the Politburo's regulations are very practical and specific to classify "gold and brass mixed together", avoiding sentimentality in evaluating cadres.

For the first time, the Politburo has specific regulations on title standards and evaluation criteria for cadres under the management of the Central Executive Committee, the Politburo, and the Secretariat. The timely promulgation of the regulations demonstrates our Party's determination to rectify the work of cadre evaluation, when many shortcomings and inadequacies have been exposed in the past.

Quantifying standards and criteria

Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Trong Phuc, former Director of the Institute of Party History (Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics) said that the contents identified by the Politburo in Regulations No. 89 and 90 have not only been mentioned and used now in determining title standards and determining criteria for evaluating cadres.

However, when applying and implementing in practice at each Party committee level, organization, agency, and unit, there are still differences, so unity has not been created.

Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Trong Phuc.

Therefore, this time the Politburo issued a document with more quantitative standards and criteria, which can be said to be an important step forward in personnel work in general, and especially in strategic-level personnel work in particular. This is also the basis for better and more effective promotion of the current Party building and rectification work.

The work of evaluating cadres is considered difficult and sensitive because it is the premise for discovering, planning, training, and appointing cadres. Correct evaluation will select good cadres, help cadres promote their strengths, correct and overcome their weaknesses. On the contrary, if the evaluation is incorrect or lacks objectivity, the "wrong" cadres will be selected, causing cadres to lose enthusiasm for their work, causing a waste of talent.

According to Associate Professor Dr. Nguyen Trong Phuc, overcoming the limitations and shortcomings in personnel work in recent times cannot be done overnight. However, it is very necessary to set out regulations that can be considered as legal documents, which will be the basis for evaluating cadres in an objective and transparent manner, in line with political tasks.

“The screening according to criteria associated with regular and periodic evaluation of cadres will help to discover cadres who perform well and are worthy of continued training and placement in higher positions. On the contrary, those who are still limited, even have shortcomings, degradation, corruption, political opportunism, power ambitions, etc. need to be replaced and removed from the team,” said Mr. Phuc.

The former Director of the Party History Institute also said that the new regulation is both a basis for people to monitor and a direction for each cadre to self-cultivate and improve themselves so that each person clearly sees their responsibilities when performing public duties.

End the "mixed gold and brass" situation

Mr. Le Van Cuong - former Deputy Head of the National Assembly Delegation of Thanh Hoa province said that personnel work always holds an important and key position in Party building work.

Besides the achieved results, there are still shortcomings in personnel work that make public opinion angry, such as the situation of buying positions and power; appointing unqualified relatives and family members to leadership and management positions; especially the situation of power ambition, corruption, degradation... seriously affecting people's trust.

Mr. Le Van Cuong in parliament. Photo: Tuoi Tre

Implementing Resolution 4 of the 11th Central Committee and Resolution 4 of the 12th Central Committee, the shortcomings and inadequacies in personnel work have been and are being directed resolutely and methodically by the Central Committee and the Politburo.

Immediately after the Politburo issued regulations on title standards and criteria for evaluating high-ranking officials, many officials, party members, and people from all walks of life expressed their agreement. Many opinions considered this one of the important solutions, contributing to cleaning up the leadership apparatus; gradually eliminating officials and party members who are weak in capacity, corrupt, opportunistic, self-serving, degraded, and no longer trusted by the people.

“These regulations are very practical and specific to classify the “gold and brass mixed together”, avoiding sentimentality in evaluating cadres” – Mr. Le Van Cuong shared.

In order for the Politburo's regulations to be effectively implemented, it is necessary to promote the role of the Party organization that directly manages Party members and cadres, and to regularly follow the actual situation to promptly correct any violations by cadres.

The heads of Party committees, agencies, units, and personnel organizers must be impartial and objective, not giving priority to relatives and ignoring talented people. At the same time, the inspection and supervision role of higher-level Party committees, socio-political organizations, and the people is indispensable to promptly detect and strictly handle cases of intentional violations of Party regulations on personnel work.

According to the former National Assembly delegate, it is not true that having regulations will make limitations and weaknesses suddenly disappear, but the most important thing is the awareness of self-cultivation and training of each cadre and party member. From these standards and criteria, each person can self-evaluate, self-examine, and overcome limitations to fulfill their responsibilities and duties as "public servants" of the people.

“These two regulations are also the basis for people around to evaluate specifically and accurately, no longer general, vague, and mixed as before. Officials cannot make excuses for themselves or for group interests to avoid violations. I believe that from these specific standards and criteria, we will judge and evaluate accurately the portrait of officials, including their strengths and weaknesses, no longer “all in harmony” as before” – Mr. Le Van Cuong emphasized./.