Comments on the 12th Party Congress documents: Supervision and criticism must be the 'nemesis' of corruption

Social criticism in general and in the field of anti-corruption in particular need to expand democracy so that the people's thousands of ears and eyes truly belong to the Party.

In the Draft Political Report of the Party Congress Document, it is stated that the participation in supervision of the Fatherland Front, socio-political organizations and people in state management activities is still limited.

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In the directions and tasks for the next 5 years, the Draft sets out directions and tasks for innovating and perfecting mechanisms and policies to promote the people's role as masters; ensuring freedom and democracy in economic activities of the people according to the provisions of the Constitution, laws and the participation of the Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations in building and supervising the implementation of economic institutions and socio-economic development.

Social supervision and criticism are necessary needs.

The draft also emphasizes: Attaching importance to the consultation, criticism and social appraisal of scientific research agencies in formulating the Party's guidelines and policies, the State's policies and laws, and economic, cultural and social development projects. Continuing to strengthen the organization, innovate the content and methods of operation of the Fatherland Front and people's organizations. The Fatherland Front plays a core role in gathering and promoting the strength of great national unity, implementing democracy, enhancing social consensus; participating in Party and State building, and people's diplomatic activities, contributing to building and defending the Fatherland.

Mr. Pham Tuan Huy, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, said that currently, countries around the world strongly condemn corruption, considering it an enemy of the development process. Social supervision and criticism are necessary needs, contributing to overcoming corruption and bureaucracy... Social supervision and criticism are important tools for the Vietnam Fatherland Front to perform its advisory tasks to the Party and Government on the Party's guidelines and policies, and the State's policies and laws.

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“Social criticism can only be effective if the supervision work of the Vietnam Fatherland Front is implemented well, substantially, synchronously and effectively. Social criticism is also an important channel for the Vietnam Fatherland Front to participate in supervising the promulgation of policies and laws of the Party and the State, so that those policies and laws are legal and reasonable, highly feasible and accepted by real life. The issue of supervision can be mainly done at the grassroots level, but social criticism must be at the central level,” Mr. Pham Tuan Huy analyzed.

According to Associate Professor Dr. Vo Dai Luoc, former Director of the Institute of World Economics and Politics, currently political organizations such as the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, the Fatherland Front, and the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor are organizations established, financed, and directed by the Party and the State. These are organizations with widespread operations, are tightly organized, and operate relatively strongly, but in general, they have participated in social supervision and criticism activities in a weak manner. Other social organizations have to be almost completely self-financed and self-organized, and do not receive support from the State, so their activities are fragmented, unprofessional, and lack experts and funding to effectively conduct social supervision and criticism.

People must participate in social supervision and criticism.

According to Mr. Pham Tuan Huy, our State is of the people, by the people and for the people. It is the people who participate in social supervision and criticism, the Vietnam Fatherland Front represents the people, taking on the burdens entrusted by the people. Social supervision and criticism by the Vietnam Fatherland Front aims to promote the people's mastery in participating in the formulation of the Party's guidelines and policies, laws and specific policies of the State, contributing to perfecting guidelines, policies and laws that are in line with the reality of social life, ensuring the legitimate and legal rights and interests and expressing the will and aspirations of all classes of people. At the same time, through social supervision and criticism activities, it will contribute to enhancing the role of the Vietnam Fatherland Front in building and gathering the great national unity bloc, promoting the people's mastery, enhancing the Party's capacity and fighting strength, and building a socialist rule-of-law state of the people, by the people, for the people that is increasingly clean, strong, and operates effectively and efficiently.

To do a good job of social supervision and criticism, the Vietnam Fatherland Front needs to promote democracy, implement the principle of people knowing, people doing, people inspecting, and at the same time create conditions and issue policies to implement this principle. "Uncle Ho said, "People know many things that the Party and the State do not know. People have a thousand ears and a thousand eyes, and people know even the needle in their bag." Social criticism in general and in the field of anti-corruption in particular need to expand democracy so that the people's thousand ears and eyes truly belong to the Party."

Associate Professor Dr. Vo Dai Luoc also emphasized that in order to promote democracy, it is extremely important to seriously carry out social supervision and criticism activities. Social supervision and criticism is a very popular activity in modern societies. It is so popular that people cannot imagine what modern society would be like without this activity.

“Social supervision and criticism is an effective solution to fight corruption. The question is who supervises and criticizes, what to supervise and how, and what conditions ensure the success of social supervision and criticism,” said Associate Professor, Dr. Vo Dai Luoc.

Creating a culture of social monitoring and criticism

According to many experts, in order for monitoring and criticism activities to be carried out well, the State must issue a legal framework for social organizations to operate. This legal framework will facilitate the emergence of diverse social organizations, while ensuring the activities of these organizations in the spirit of building and developing the country. Social organizations must be formed in all economic fields; professions; and residential communities, and thus these social organizations can participate in monitoring and criticizing all aspects of the State's economic activities. As for now, social organizations in Vietnam have only been established in a limited way, and in many economic fields and professions, there are no social organizations, so it is difficult to have a voice of social monitoring and criticism in these fields.

According to Associate Professor, Dr. Pham Quang Hoan, the draft should supplement the results of implementation in terms of promoting democracy, supervision and social criticism. Specifically, it should supplement the content of improving the effectiveness and efficiency of state management, achieving positive results in administrative reform, promoting democracy at the grassroots level and strengthening social supervision, and focusing on the prevention and fight against corruption and waste.

At the same time, it stipulates the improvement of the organizational apparatus, promoting the responsibility of leaders and officials, civil servants. Focusing on reforming administrative procedures, applying information technology, creating convenience, reducing costs, saving time for people and businesses. Implementing publicity, transparency and enhancing social accountability. Strengthening democracy and social supervision responsibility of mass organizations - socio-political organizations at the grassroots level.

Associate Professor Dr. Vo Dai Luoc believes that it is necessary to build a culture of social supervision and criticism. Accordingly, state management agencies must voluntarily submit to social supervision and criticism. There must be a force specializing in researching and reviewing accepted and rejected opinions. In necessary cases, a source of funding must be allocated for social supervision and criticism, and prejudice and retaliation against those involved in this work must be strictly prohibited.

“Creating a culture of “healthy social supervision and criticism”, not nitpicking, not unconstructive criticism, not one-sided extremes, not just one-sided criticism but proposing solutions, meaning a culture of constructive social supervision and criticism, praising the right and good, criticizing the wrong and bad, and pointing out solutions” - Associate Professor, Dr. Vo Dai Luoc emphasized.

Without building a healthy culture of social criticism and supervision, social criticism and supervision will hardly succeed. If state management agencies do not want to be supervised and socially criticized, do not study and absorb the opinions of supervision and criticism, and even have a retaliatory attitude. If social organizations are fearful, evasive or extreme, social criticism and supervision will certainly not achieve the desired results./.

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