Are there too many fake "supports" for "children of the powerful" to advance?

“Rapid promotion” or “unclear support” are phrases used to describe the “official career” of some young officials who, thanks to “support” or “support”, have achieved astonishing “maturity”. After the scandals about “rapid career” in the past year, people cannot help but wonder and worry about the selection and appointment of young people.

Mr. Luu Binh Nhuong, Standing Member of the National Assembly's Committee on Social Affairs, National Assembly Delegate of Ben Tre province on this content.

The most dangerous is "privatization of power"

PV:After the scandals about "lightning-fast official career" in the past year, does the public have the right to wonder and worry about the selection and appointment of young people, sir?

Mr. Liu Ping Ruong: In fact, selecting talented young people to take on important responsibilities at the central, local and ministerial levels is a major policy of the Party and State, which has been clearly demonstrated in Resolutions, Directives as well as in documents of all levels and sectors. This is also the wish of President Ho Chi Minh in his Will. Planning and appointing young cadres is considered a strategic issue.

However, when young cadres are appointed or promoted, their youth, dynamism, and innovation are not only the criteria, but they must also meet all the Party's standards: They must have good qualities, revolutionary ethics, and a lifestyle, self-cultivation, and training following the example of President Ho Chi Minh; these cadres must have high professional qualifications appropriate to the job and be able to assume appropriate positions and positions.

So it can be understood that not all young cadres are appointed. Our ancestors have a saying "smartness does not come to the young, strength does not come to the old", smartness here does not mean that young people are inexperienced and inexperienced. People need to have both theory and practice, so after being trained in theory and expertise in school and in training courses, young cadres need to be brought into life to struggle with it, even in the Japanese way, they have to go step by step, from ordinary, arduous jobs and then step up to higher positions, only then can they understand and share. Young people who do not understand, like talented people without virtue, indifferent, cold to life, are extremely dangerous.

PV:Do you think that young people who rise up by their own strength are still more respectable than those who are "children of high-ranking officials" and have "support and launching pads" to rise up?

Mr. Liu Ping Ruong: I think having a platform is very good. If everyone has a platform, if the whole society has a platform, it would be great. We need to look at this issue fairly.

If two cases have the same score, I will choose the individual who strives because they have, through their own efforts and training, set goals for their lives and succeeded. However, there are people who, even though they have a large family behind them, still create a launching pad for themselves. Two people have the same launching pad as the son of a high-ranking official, but the one with the training will definitely be chosen, not to mention the entrance exam, just the self-training alone speaks to their will.

If they are young cadres, come from educated families, children of mandarins, even many generations of mandarins, but strive to sacrifice for the Fatherland, are not corrupt, contribute a lot, meet all the requirements and standards, they can still choose, because they are educated from childhood to follow a political career and they are also educated to go into politics not to rob people's money, but to work for the honor of their family, clan, honor, qualities and interests of the country.

If we have such cadres, I am willing to give a lot of votes. The most fearful thing is that they only have a cover, a fake platform, beggars the past, taking advantage of their ancestors' titles to install their children and relatives, that is not a platform. The real platform I want to talk about is a "missile platform". In recent incidents, it can be said that we have witnessed too many fake "platforms".

PV:So, in your opinion, what is the cause of the recent "lightning-fast career advancement" of some young officials? Is it a mistake in the process?

Mr. Liu Ping Ruong: I am a defender of that process and many people have supported my view. Our process is extremely strict, it is written for decent people, not for people who do bad business; but the people who use that process are not decent.

"The most dangerous thing now is the "privatization of power" that the State and people give, turning power into one's own property"

And the result is that we have a whole team of people who do wrong, they look at each other, look up, see that this person's child can get in, their child can get in too. If you want your child to get in, you have to support the children of others, I call it "a witches' association", people have put the process aside, even trampled on the process of the Party and the law. I can affirm that the process to select and appoint a cadre in Vietnam is extremely strict, the standards in that process can be considered the gold standard, but unfortunately that gold standard is not applied but people "mold" their own mold.

“Clericalism, planning in the back room”

PV:The method of recruiting leaders through exams is being applied by many agencies. In your opinion, is there any way for those with fake “support” to “get around” it?

Mr. Liu Ping Ruong: The leadership selection method is classical in nature, but it is also a very modern method to be able to select a person for a leadership position. We have had to take exams since grade 1, then we have to take sports exams, beauty exams… to find qualified people. In ancient times, generals had to compete with each other through martial arts competitions, literary competitions to select talented people, so why don’t we choose the selection method?

In fact, many agencies have applied the recruitment exam and have had results. The Ministry of Justice organized the recruitment exam for the Deputy Director of the Judicial Academy, the Director of the Department of Inspection of Legal Normative Documents; or the Ministry of Transport recruited the Director of the General Department of Roads. In my opinion, this recruitment exam model should be expanded, and even required to require recruitment exams for certain positions.

But it must also be admitted that no competition is without loopholes, regardless of the level. But the first important issue is to choose the problem and the way of competition so that "cheat sheets" cannot save them.

"No competition is without loopholes. But there are ways to make lifebuoys ineffective."

Another issue is to choose the examiners, the recruitment board must be objective, impartial and there must be a mechanism to supervise the board by public opinion. This will narrow the gap, not hoping to fill it, but avoiding secrecy, priesthood, and planning in the room. We should not be afraid of loopholes and not apply them, but find those loopholes and take measures.

PV:Thank you sir./.