Identify and combat false and distorted arguments about the work of preventing and combating corruption and negativity.

Currently, when our Party is more determined to fight against corruption, negativity, “self-evolution”, “self-transformation”, the hostile, reactionary and opportunistic forces are more and more frantically sabotaging. They will not hesitate to use any means to distort, falsify and fabricate in order to eliminate the leadership role of the Communist Party, the political system and the path to socialism in Vietnam. The organizations and individuals currently carrying out propaganda and falsification activities mainly include: Reactionary organizations of Vietnamese exiles, such as the terrorist organizations “Viet Tan”, “Trieu Dai Viet”, “Provisional National Government of Vietnam”, “Committee for the Rescue of People on the Sea - BPSOS”; Media centers, psychological warfare, foreign news sites, non-governmental organizations such as “BBC News Vietnamese”, “RFA”, “VOA”, RFI”, “Law magazine”, “thoibao.de”, “Chan Troi Moi Media”; “Dan Chim Viet”,…;NThose who call themselves “democrats”, “lawyers”, “journalists”, “facebookers”, “bloggers”, “youtubers” hide under the guise of demanding freedom, democracy, human rights, civil society, religion, and ethnicity.

Identify and refute false and distorted arguments

There is a lot of bad and toxic information, false and distorted arguments about the Party's fight against corruption and negativity on cyberspace, mainly focusing on the following false and distorted arguments:

-“Fighting corruption and negativity in Vietnam today is just internal purges and factional fighting within the Communist Party..

The opposing forces have fabricated, distorted, exaggerated, taken the phenomenon as the essence, published mixed true and false information, added and embellished the stories they created, presented "secret palace documents" to propagate and distort, claiming that fighting corruption is "internal purge", "fighting" between "this high-ranking leader and that high-ranking leader, this faction and that faction", "there are unlucky factions and lucky factions", "the consolidation of power of this faction and the "expiration" of the other faction"; "putting them all in the furnace to burn but there is a distinction between comrades".

The Party's work of preventing and combating corruption and negativity has always been carried out closely, cautiously, and step by step in accordance with the Party's regulations and statutes and the State's laws. Democratic centralism is the most fundamental principle in the Party's organization and all activities. All decisions belong to the collective leadership, are publicly discussed and debated, and the minority obeys the majority on the basis of democracy. The recent corruption and negativity cases involving a number of high-ranking officials have demonstrated the unity and high political determination of the Party Central Committee in accordance with the principle of democratic centralism through voting on disciplinary actions based on assessment and analysis of convincing political and legal grounds. Therefore, there is absolutely no such thing as a "faction" interfering in the fight against corruption and negativity.

Over the past 10 years, our Party has stepped up the fight against corruption, hundreds of corrupt officials, big and small, have been sent to prison, some have received life sentences, but no one has claimed that their actions were unjust or unreasonable, but only asked to admit their guilt, remedy the consequences, and reduce their sentences. There has been absolutely no “purge”, “internal strife”, or “extermination of factions” as the opposition has tried to distort.

-“AntiCorruption and negativity in Vietnam today are like "bathing from the shoulders down, being controlled by this country or that country"; "not thoroughly handling the leaders is like kidnapping and abandoning the plate"; "the establishment of a Steering Committee at the provincial level proves that the anti-corruption campaign is ineffective and has not changed".

This is one of the most insidious and dangerous arguments, aiming to lead public opinion to believe that our Party is fighting corruption in a "half-hearted" manner. In fact, the fight against corruption and negativity in recent times has achieved many great successes with the principle of no forbidden areas, no exceptions, no privileges, regardless of who the person is, "handling one case, alerting the whole region, the whole field". A series of "industry commanders", "high-ranking generals" including Politburo members have been criminally prosecuted such as: Dinh La Thang, Truong Minh Tuan, Nguyen Bac Son, Nguyen Duc Chung, Chu Ngoc Anh, Nguyen Thanh Long, To Anh Dung, Tat Thanh Cang, ... In other cases, the enforcement of Party discipline with administrative discipline and criminal handling is synchronized, both strict and humane.

Recently, many particularly serious cases such as: The case that occurred at Viet A Company; the "rescue flight" case that occurred at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hanoi and other provinces and cities; cases that occurred at FLC Group, Van Thinh Phat, Tan Hoang Minh, AIC Company, etc. have been brought to light. The work of preventing and combating corruption and negativity has expanded its scope beyond the State, touching specialized, closed areas that were previously considered unmanageable.(land auction, securities, healthcare, education, ...).

In particular, after the establishment of the Provincial Steering Committee for Anti-Corruption and Negative Action, the situation of “hot above, cold below” has been gradually overcome, showing that our Party has carried out a systematic and synchronous step by step, like “sweeping the stairs”, sweeping from top to bottom, eliminating from major to petty corruption. Typically, in Nghe An province, many cases of economic crimes, corruption and negative actions have been discovered and thoroughly handled, alerting an entire region and a field, including a number of cases of “Abusing positions and powers in the performance of official duties”; “Giving, brokering, and receiving bribes” occurring in a number of departments and branches.

Nghe An province is assessed by the Central Steering Committee on Anti-Corruption and Negativity as one of the localities with many new prosecutions related to corruption, with 33 cases in the past year; of which, 40 officials and party members were prosecuted.

-“The Communist Party of Vietnam cannot successfully fight corruption because “corruption is the offspring of a one-party regime”; “To successfully fight corruption, there must be political pluralism, multi-party opposition, the Communist Party must be abolished, and Marxism-Leninism must be abandoned.”

They believe that only “Vietnamese Communist officials need to be corrupt, want to be corrupt, dare to be corrupt and are not afraid to be corrupt”. In fact, in capitalist countries with multi-party systems, corruption is still very common. Typically, some heads of state in South Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Pakistan, Brazil, etc. have been criminally prosecuted for corruption.

Transparency International's 2022 Corruption Perceptions Index announced that Vietnam scored 42/100 points, ranking 77/180 countries and territories, one of the 6 Asian countries with much progress.

The above indexes show that Vietnam ranks above 103 ranked countries, of which more than 90% are multi-party countries. Therefore, it cannot be said that the cause of corruption is due to the one-party or multi-party mechanism./.