Group interests erode the dignity of officials and civil servants.

Group interests are daily rotting the apparatus and eroding the dignity of officials and civil servants...

71 years have passed, since September 2, 1945, until a hundred years later, a thousand years later, the lesson of "seizing the opportunity" quickly and uniquely, of "the Party's wise and talented leadership", of "people trusting the Party" wholeheartedly to create victory, to make history, will forever be priceless.

The Party considers “the people as the root”, the people wholeheartedly believe that the Party has led the two wars of national defense in the process of “30 years of democratic republic” to complete victory, unifying the country, and bringing the country under one roof. An everlasting value.

10 years of struggle, suffocating life in "centralized bureaucracy", the economy fell to the bottom of poverty and misery, people compared: our party is not as good at doing business and governing the country as it is at fighting the enemy. People have "lost faith in the party", but still believe, still work together to overcome.

The 6th Party Congress in 1986 (Photo: VNA)

The 8th Central Conference of the 5th term (June 1985) marked the second breakthrough with the will and decisive action to abolish the centralized bureaucratic subsidy mechanism, implement the one-price mechanism, abolish the regime of providing goods at low prices, transfer all production and business activities to the business accounting mechanism, and transfer banks to business principles. The 6th Central Conference of the 4th term (August 1979) proposed the first breakthrough of the renovation process as "making production explode". Directive 100 (1981) of the Secretariat on improving the contracting work, expanding product contracting to groups and workers in agricultural cooperatives created a new impulse in agriculture.

The Party has determined a multi-sector economic mechanism, correctly used the commodity-money relationship, and applied the law of value. This is the third breakthrough.
The 6th Party Congress (December 1986) awakened awareness and a way of looking at the truth "straight, correctly assessing the truth, clearly stating the truth" and setting out a comprehensive renovation policy for the country. This was a turning point, a major and comprehensive breakthrough that brought confidence to the people.

Overall, 30 years of renovation is a period of stability and development. Political institutions are institutionalized in each period and term. The head of the Party, National Assembly, State, and Government cannot serve more than two terms. Implementing this regime does not necessarily mean full and comprehensive democracy, but the important thing is to end the feudal ideology that remains a lifelong official, the king is the son of heaven, and cannot retire but is deposed.

In the process of comprehensive innovation and democratic practice, people pay more and more attention to the qualities of party members and leaders from the grassroots to the Central level. In political life, especially in the process of preparing for the National Party Congress, the election of the National Assembly and People's Councils at all levels, people are very interested in the term of office, personnel, and the transfer of power with a mood ranging from hope to disappointment. That is also a normal psychology.

It is important to note that in the relatively stable process of innovation, special interest groups have been formed. In the world, interest groups are formed along with the process of market economic development. Interest groups go along with the country's progress, and together with the community's interests, they become the driving force for development. Any group that only goes against the common good for its own benefit, or monopolizes all benefits and enjoyments for itself, will be an obstacle and a reactionary force.

American economics professor Mancur Olson commented: “Any country only needs a long enough period of political stability for special interest groups to appear, and they will become more and more proficient and skillful. Then they will know more and more how to manipulate the most important public policies of the country, the economic development of the country, the political apparatus, especially the administration and laws of that apparatus, and understand how to manipulate them to get convincing reasons. Because their skills are increasingly proficient, the benefits they gain will become more and more certain and numerous. Eventually, it will gradually lead to the institutions, policies, and organizations in all aspects such as economy, society, administration, law, etc. of that country becoming the most suitable arrangement for special interest groups, causing the new driving force of the country's development to be increasingly restrained, and the industries to become more and more rigid. This will inevitably lead to the decline of the country.”

In our country, negative group interests have been developing for a long time, right in the party organizations, government, and state-owned enterprises, but no one dares to criticize because of sensitivity, because of fear of losing internal solidarity. Only when we see in reality the true nature of the collusion between enterprises, economic groups, and party and state agencies, do those who make and administer policies speak up to warn. Better late than never.

Group interests are rotting the apparatus every day, eroding the dignity of officials and civil servants, and causing people to lose confidence in the Party and the State. Group interests of corporations are reaching out to take national policies hostage. All economic and social burdens and consequences are placed on the shoulders of the weak. People become hostages of group interest corporations.
Reality also shows that not all interest groups can make waves.

The electoral system, universal suffrage since the first Constitution, electing the National Assembly, the head of the National Assembly, the Government, and the State will be increasingly open, transparent, and truly democratic, and will select leaders "for the people and the country".

Group interests cannot manipulate or "cover the sun" from the media, even though they can have a certain impact on a certain group or event.

In the era of globalization, group interests can cross borders. But in the fierce competition for survival and development, corporations are forced to compromise.

These restraining factors are only effective when there is a mechanism and strict implementation of transparency, clarity, publicity, and true democracy, not formal or fake democracy. Doing so will not only prevent people from becoming "hostages" but also regain the people's trust, further shining the historical value of the "Declaration of Independence" that President Ho Chi Minh solemnly proclaimed to the nation and the world 71 years ago in the historic Ba Dinh Square./.

According to VOV.VN