The more power is given, the stronger the 'brakes' must be.

The higher the speed of the vehicle, the more solid the brakes are needed. The solid brakes here are: building and perfecting legal regulations and rules, including the Party Charter, State policies and laws, local regulations, etc.

In his closing speech at the 6th Conference of the Central Committee (12th tenure), General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong outlined the tasks: “Basically implement the model of Party Committee Secretary concurrently being Chairman of the People's Council; implement the Party Committee Secretary concurrently being Chairman of the People's Committee at district and commune levels where conditions permit. Strengthen decentralization and reasonable delegation of power along with building a mechanism to control power and closely inspect and supervise.”

Thus, in the coming years, the unification of the apparatus and cadres will be concretized, contributing to turning the Party's Resolution into reality. However, the unification of the organization and apparatus is not a simple task that can be done simultaneously, but there are certain conditions. Those are necessary and sufficient conditions. So what are those conditions?

Starting from the organization- apparatus

The most obvious and easily recognizable problem in the organization and apparatus of the political system in our country today is the duplication of functions and tasks; the same or nearly similar tasks, but many organizations and agencies do the same, so that when shortcomings, omissions, or limitations occur, no organization or agency takes responsibility. Through the pilot work of Quang Ninh province in the past 3 years, it shows that the time has come for us to unify a series of organizations and agencies at the district or commune level with each other nationwide.

For example, in recent times, unification in Quang Ninh has been carried out widely and mainly in some key positions as well as agencies and units with similar functions and tasks such as: Party Committee Secretary is also Chairman of the People's Committee at the same level; Party Committee Office (VPCU) with People's Council Office and People's Committee Office; Inspectorate with Inspection Committee; Organization Board with Internal Affairs Department; Propaganda Board with Information and Communication Department; most commonly, Party Cell Secretary is also the head of village, hamlet...

However, not all places have the same preparation or conditions as Quang Ninh. Therefore, one of the requirements to unify the two most important leading positions at the district and commune levels today, which is the Party Secretary and Chairman of the People's Committee, is to first organize a good "three-in-one" model. That is, unify the Office of the Provincial People's Committee - the Office of the People's Council - the Office of the People's Committee into one Office to undertake the functions and tasks of the three previous offices.

The name of this new Office must be unified, reflecting the true nature of an agency serving the people and managing society in the area. This "three-in-one" model will avoid the situation where an official is appointed to lead 2 or 3 different agencies at the same time, then this leader must "run back and forth" or "divide" the working week into 3 like: at the beginning of the week he "sits" at the VPCU, in the middle of the week he "sits" at the Office of the People's Council, at the weekend he "sits" at the Office of the People's Committee, and it is inevitable that there will be a situation of "one side is important, one side is nervous".

Giving too much power to one person without regulations and rules, as well as lax inspection, control and supervision, will eventually lead to abuse of power. Illustrative photo

Our ancestors have a saying: "The sacredness of the gods depends on the subordinates." If we want the Office to perform well its advisory and leadership support functions, there are four major and important requirements for this newly merged office:

1). Grasp the principles, professional understanding and expertise in both Party building work, state management work and apparatus organization in the conditions of unification of both organization, apparatus and leader as well as arising from practice to report regularly and promptly for leadership and direction;

2). Properly advise leaders on solutions to problems arising in the process of implementing resolutions of Party committees and State policies and laws in the area;

3). Have the courage and grasp the relevant policies, resolutions, laws, regulations and rules to prevent leaders from unintentionally or intentionally violating them;

4). Is the place of primary responsibility and the first "barrier" when the leader abuses power.

If the above 4 tasks of the new Office are maintained and strictly implemented, it will be both a solid support and the best place to monitor so that leaders cannot act arbitrarily, do not dare to act arbitrarily, and do not want to act arbitrarily when given a lot of power in their hands.

To the specific person

During his lifetime, Lenin soon realized the power of party organization for the proletarian revolution when he said: "Give us an organization of revolutionaries, and we will turn Russia upside down." Once there is an organization that unites revolutionaries who are wholeheartedly devoted to the revolutionary movement, the remaining problem is to select leaders with enough courage, moral qualities and capacity to operate that organization.

The unification of three organizations and apparatus into one requires that the leading cadre must possess all the elements of: head of the Party Committee (highest representative of the Party organization at the district and grassroots levels); head of the People's Council (highest representative of the people at the district and grassroots levels); head of the government (head of the executive body at the district and grassroots levels).

This seems to be difficult to have available candidates to choose from, but in reality, there is a basis for selecting specific people, based on the implementation of the following principles: first, party members assigned to participate in leadership and direction must be "incarnated" into organizations and apparatuses representing the people and the government; second, the higher-level party committee selects qualified party members to recommend as candidates for the people to directly elect by their votes; third, implement the motto "cadres take care of the people's work, let the people directly evaluate, select, supervise, and give constructive opinions"; Fourth, applying the new Central cadre rotation principle stipulates: cadres and party members in any locality are not allowed to be leaders or heads in their hometown and the rotation period is at least 3 years or more (this will contribute to preventing and limiting negativity, especially localism, cliques, group interests, cronies...)

The higher the speed, the stronger the "brakes" must be.

So, when you have a good, complete machine, at the same time have an experienced, steady "driver" plus a favorable infrastructure (heavenly time, favorable location, harmony of people), the vehicle is ready to rush forward. However, experience shows that the higher the speed of the vehicle, the more secure the "brake" must be to prevent any unexpected events that may occur.

Giving too much power to one person without regulations and rules as well as loosening inspection, control and supervision will eventually lead to abuse of power. The sure "brakes" here are: building and perfecting legal regulations and rules, including the Party Charter, State policies and laws, and local and grassroots regulations; regularly checking, inspecting and auditing leadership and direction on the basis of self-criticism and criticism; periodically and regularly having supervision and constructive comments from the masses and people on the organization, apparatus, leaders and heads on the basis of publicity and transparency, especially on the assets and income of the leaders themselves and their families according to the regulations of the Central Government...

Unifying the organization and apparatus is both urgent and fundamental for the long term. Therefore, reviewing, supplementing, amending and perfecting mechanisms, policies and regulations is to create the necessary and sufficient conditions for unifying the organization and apparatus in the new development stage of the country.

According to Vietnamnet