Comments on the XIII Congress Documents: Pointing out shortcomings during the past term as well as after more than 35 years of innovation

The Party Congresses at all levels for the 2020-2025 term, leading up to the 13th National Party Congress, are a broad political activity, receiving many enthusiastic, responsible, constructive and intellectual contributions to the Party Congress Documents.

Our Party's policy is to always expand democracy, promote the intelligence, enthusiasm and creativity of Party committees at all levels, Party organizations, Party members and people of all walks of life to contribute ideas to draft Party documents.

The majority of party members and people agreed to highly appreciate the structure and content of the draft documents of the 13th National Party Congress. The report on Party building work mentioned the general direction, tasks and solutions.In which, emphasizing 3 key tasks and 3 breakthrough solutions is appropriate. This is the inheritance and development of the approach of the 12th Congress term, with necessary additions, especially breakthrough solutions.

According to Associate Professor Le Van Tich - Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, in general, the overall report on Party building work is appropriate, both inheriting from previous Congress terms and adding new additions from summarizing practices.At the same time, it clearly points out the current state of lies and degradation in the Party with an attitude of looking straight at the truth to correct it.

“We must look straight at the truth and stop lying. Based on that, we can evaluate the truth correctly to fight and deal with it. This is the important foundation to help the country develop,” Associate Professor Le Van Tich suggested.

Mr. Viet Chuyen - Deputy Head of the Inspection Committee of Thieu Hoa District Party Committee, Thanh Hoa Province, said that the report boldly pointed out the limitations and shortcomings of organizations as well as the role of the Party Inspection Committee. However, recently we have not really delegated much power to the Inspection Committees at all levels and the implementation of questioning within the Party is still formal.

“Regarding the work of inspection, supervision and enforcement of Party regulations, the role of the Inspection Committee needs to be clarified in terms of functions, tasks and authority. Especially in the inspection of Party finances, the declaration of assets and income is not clearly defined.The Inspection Committee cannot inspect assets and income while the Inspection Committee is the agency assigned this authority. The regulations and questioning in the Party are still formalistic," Mr. Viet Chuyen assessed.

Many veteran party members shared the same opinion that the Draft Report, in the part about Party building and rectification, was more specific and clear about the successes, limitations and solutions for the coming term, especially in personnel work.

General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong chairs a meeting of the XIII Congress Document Subcommittee. Photo: VNA.

Mr. Nguyen Trung Duc - a 60-year-old Party member in Trung Do ward, Vinh city, Nghe An province, said that although the documents mentioned limitations in personnel work, the subjective causes were not sufficient. The documents need to analyze more carefully the subjective causes in personnel work, boldly stating the limitations and shortcomings in the past term as well as after more than 35 years of renovation.

"We must talk more about subjective causes, including the issue of cadre work, because each cadre has its own movement. We must speak directly about the issue of our cadres, the spirit, responsibility, aspiration and dedication in a problematic part," said Mr. Nguyen Trung Duc.

After carefully studying the documents, Master Nguyen Ngoc Minh Tam - Lecturer at Tran Phu Political School, Ha Tinh province, expressed his opinion that the documents still have many qualitative phrases, are not convincing, and many contents are still duplicated, thereby giving the opinion that it is necessary to study and make the title concise, and should not use adverbial phrases in the title that are both duplicated and do not fully express the true nature.

“Regarding building and rectifying a clean, strong Party and improving the Party's leadership and governance capacity, the phrase "building and rectifying a clean, strong, comprehensive Party" should not be used because all 5 contents in Section 5 focus on reflecting the building of a clean, strong, comprehensive Party.

Meanwhile, Point 1 only mentions the content of Party building in terms of politics, ideology, organization and ethics, which cannot be said to be comprehensive. The recommendation is to write directly about "Party building in terms of politics, ideology, organization and ethics" and not to use the phrases "strengthening persuasion" and "strengthening efficiency" before the content that should directly mention Party building in terms of politics, Party building in terms of ideology, Party building in terms of organization and Party building in terms of ethics.

"It is advisable to combine items 4, 5, and 6 into "Party building in terms of organization" to clearly demonstrate the 4 contents of Party building and to be concise," Master Nguyen Ngoc Minh Tam suggested.

The process of giving comments on the Draft Documents of the 13th National Party Congress clearly demonstrates the spirit of promoting democracy within the Party and the whole society, thereby creating unity in awareness and ideology and contributing to the formulation of our Party's policies, including the work of Party building and rectification.

The opinions and contributions of party members, cadres and people will be recorded and selectively received by the XIII Congress Documents Subcommittee to supplement and revise the Draft Congress Documents.