Clarify who promoted and transferred the Vice Chairman of the province to drive a Lexus?

According to Mr. Le Quang Thuong, it is necessary to review the signatures of agencies from bottom to top, who promoted and transferred Mr. Trinh Xuan Thanh?

Mr. Le Quang Thuong, former Deputy Head of the Central Organizing Committee

In recent days, public opinion has been particularly concerned about the case of Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of Hau Giang Province Trinh Xuan Thanh using a private car with an official license plate. General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has directed relevant agencies to inspect, review and conclude the case, considering it an urgent task and reporting it to the Secretariat.

Mr. Le Quang Thuong, former Deputy Head of the Central Organizing Committee, supported the timely and drastic actions of the Party leader. From that action, he believed that it would create a positive change in the awareness and work of the leaders of ministries, branches and localities. In particular, the work of cadres and the rotation of cadres need to be rectified to eliminate corrupt and degraded cadres, clean up the State apparatus and regain the people's trust.

Many questions about personnel work

Reporter: The story of the Lexus car of Vice Chairman of Hau Giang Provincial People's Committee Trinh Xuan Thanh is receiving special attention from the public nationwide. Most notably, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has directly directed 10 agencies to clarify the matter. What is your comment on this matter?

Mr. Le Quang Thuong: I very much welcome the direction of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong on this issue. The “white sea-blue sea” issue itself is not a big issue, but through this issue, many questions are raised about the issue of personnel work.

First of all, it is necessary to understand correctly about cadre rotation. The case of Trinh Xuan Thanh as well as dozens of people in a year were selected for rotation as a movement, making people understand that if they rotate, they will be promoted, if they rotate, they will be "regarded" by "the higher ups" and evaluated well to move them, to have a brighter future.

In my experience in personnel work over the years, rotation should be understood as one of the measures of personnel work. There was a time when people considered rotation of cadres an important breakthrough. That is completely wrong. Rotation is only one step of personnel work.

Personnel work includes the following steps: evaluating cadres, selecting good people to include in the planning, training and fostering them, promoting them to positions suitable to the work requirements and abilities of the cadres; rewarding cadres if they have achievements; disciplining cadres if they have shortcomings. For example, when comrade Do Muoi became General Secretary, he had to go through many positions from Provincial Secretary, Deputy Prime Minister, and then General Secretary...

Thus, rotation has existed for a long time, but it is not as people think now: rotating cadres is to train and develop cadres. That is only one aspect. Rotation is a requirement of cadre work, a requirement of revolutionary tasks, not rotating cadres for the purpose of training and developing cadres. On that basis, those who are rotated learn more practical experience.

A private Lexus with a blue license plate carrying Mr. Thanh on the streets of Can Tho (Photo: Dan Tri)

"The fly through the eye of the needle"

Reporter: From leading a business that lost over 3,200 billion VND, Mr. Trinh Xuan Thanh returned to the Ministry of Industry and Trade, then was transferred to Hau Giang to become Vice Chairman of the province and most recently was elected as a member of the 14th National Assembly. Some say that Mr. Thanh's case, with such heavy consequences and responsibilities, rose like a "kite in the wind", showing that the process of selecting and using officials had irregularities from beginning to end. In your opinion, what is the problem here?

Mr. Le Quang Thuong: Trinh Xuan Thanh himself is a problematic person and needs to be considered.

There are two aspects to this. The first is the responsibility of the cadre management agencies, specifically the Party Committee, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the National Oil and Gas Group, the Central Organizing Committee, and the Hau Giang Provincial Party Committee. These agencies must be responsible for this issue. Why is a person who is doing business at a loss not being reviewed and clarified? What did the Oil and Gas Group do that it did not inspect and consider handling the head of the Vietnam Oil and Gas Construction Joint Stock Corporation - a member of the Vietnam Oil and Gas Group - doing business at a loss?

A person like Mr. Thanh, after such a loss in business, returned to the Ministry of Industry and Trade to work as Deputy Chief of the Ministry of Industry and Trade's Office - Chief Representative of the Central Office of the Ministry of Industry and Trade in Da Nang. Could it be that the Ministry of Industry and Trade does not understand Trinh Xuan Thanh well?

Hau Giang Provincial Party Committee directed Hau Giang Police to replace the blue license plate on Mr. Thanh's car. According to the explanation of the Head of Traffic Police Department (PC67), Hau Giang Police said that this is an "inventory" license plate, not yet issued to any car. If so, is this a violation of the law???

The second is the phenomenon of interest groups in personnel work and the phenomenon of corruption in personnel work.

People still say “a fly goes through the eye of a needle” which seems impossible but it is still happening for a reason. The first reason is poor management of cadres. Second, people still say that buying a position or job costs hundreds of millions, even in important sectors, when promoted, it costs billions. Therefore, I suspect that there is bribery in this matter and it needs to be condemned.

It is necessary to review the signatures of the agencies from bottom to top that promoted and transferred Mr. Trinh Xuan Thanh, who signed and why? This must be thoroughly done.

I very much welcome Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc when working with businesses, on the issue of food safety, he said that we must assign responsibility to the Ministers, the Chairmen of provinces, districts, and communes for the problems that have occurred. We must apply the Prime Minister's instructions on this issue. We must assign responsibility for the case of Mr. Trinh Xuan Thanh, no one can be held responsible.

PV: In your opinion, how should this case be handled next, especially when Mr. Trinh Xuan Thanh has just been elected as a delegate to the 14th National Assembly?

Mr. Le Quang Thuong: This must be done according to the law. Like the two previous National Assembly deputies who were dismissed by the National Assembly, there must be a process, someone must raise the issue, the National Assembly Standing Committee must check this matter, the National Assembly must give its opinion and the responsible agencies must respond.

For example, when the Hau Giang Provincial Party Committee and the Hau Giang People's Council put Mr. Trinh Xuan Thanh on the list of candidates for the National Assembly, did they know about this? If they didn't know, it's bureaucratic; if they knew but still put him on, we need to see if there's anything shady about this.

PV: Must handle it thoroughly, sir?

Mr. Le Quang Thuong: We must be thorough in this matter. And we must take this opportunity to rectify the work of cadres, rectify the rotation of cadres, and definitely not follow the trend but must do it for the work, for the country. As for the training, fostering, and training of cadres, it is the result of rotation. Through rotation, cadres will gain more knowledge beyond their specialized work.

PV: Thank you./.

According to VOV.VN