New points in Regulation No. 37-QD/TW on things party members are not allowed to do

On October 25, 2021, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, on behalf of the 13th Central Executive Committee, signed and issued Regulation No. 37-QD/TW (Regulation 37-QD/TW) replacing Regulation No. 47-QD/TW dated November 1, 2011 of the 11th Central Executive Committee.on things party members are not allowed to do (Regulation 47-QD/TW).

General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong. Photo: VNA

One thing in common is that Regulation 37-QD/TW retains 19 articles as Regulation 47-QD/TW and is consistent in the viewpoint of promoting the responsibility, obligation, exemplary pioneering role and moral qualities of party members. The new regulation basically inherits the relevant contents and adds new contents to suit the current period.

The revised and supplemented contents are core and important issues on training political ideology, moral qualities, and lifestyle of cadres and party members in the spirit of the Resolutions of the 12th and 13th National Party Congresses and the 2013 Constitution; new contents in resolutions, directives, conclusions, regulations of the Party, policies and laws of the State issued in recent times, especially the Resolutions of the 4th Central Committee of the 11th and 12th tenures, and the Conclusion of the 13th Central Committee on Party building and rectification, on preventing and combating corruption and negativity.

Compared with the old Regulation, the new Regulation records 19 articles.Party members are not allowed to doFrom Article 1 to Article 19; the new regulation changes the order of some articles; inherits, supplements, and perfects the content of each article and adds some new articles. Accordingly, the new Regulation adds some things that party members are not allowed to do such as: Refuting, denying, and distorting Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh's thought; Not fulfilling the responsibility of setting an example; Individualism, opportunism, profiteering; "Term thinking", solidarity in the same direction, formal democracy, not defending when seeing the right, not fighting when seeing the wrong; Arbitrary, authoritarian, bureaucratic, distant from the masses; Using fake, illegal diplomas, certificates, and certifications; Naturalizing, transferring money and assets abroad, opening accounts and buying and selling assets abroad in violation of regulations; Interfering with or influencing the activities of inspection, supervision, auditing, investigation, prosecution, trial, execution of sentences, amnesty, and settlement of complaints and denunciations to cover up or assist in violations of Party regulations and State laws; influencing, coercing, or bribing organizations or individuals to reduce responsibility and punishment for others.

Compared with the old Regulation, the new Regulation supplements and amends specifically as follows:

Article 1,Regulation 37-QD/TW compared to Article 1, Regulation 47-QD/TW has been supplemented with new and more complete content: Party members are not only not allowed to speak, act against or not implement the Political Platform, Party Charter, resolutions, directives, regulations, decisions, and conclusions of the Party; do things that are not permitted by law, but are also not allowed to write against the Political Platform, Party Charter, resolutions, directives, regulations, decisions, and conclusions of the Party;

Article 2,Regulation 37-QD/TW is inherited from Article 7, Regulation 47-QD/TW but has added very important content for Party members, which is to implement the principles of organization and operation of the Party according to the provisions of the Party Charter.

Article 3,Regulation 37-QD/TW is a completely new content supplemented on the basis of implementing Conclusion No. 01-KL/TW, dated May 18, 2021 of the Politburo on continuing to implement Directive No. 05-CT/TW dated May 15, 2016 of the 12th Politburo "On promoting the study and following of Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and lifestyle" and the Conclusion of the Politburo on continuing to implement Resolution No. 04-NQ/TW, dated October 30, 2016 of the Central Executive Committee (12th tenure) on strengthening Party building and rectification; preventing and repelling the degradation of political ideology, morality, lifestyle, and manifestations of "self-evolution" and "self-transformation" within the Party.

Article 6Inherited from Article 5, Regulation 47-QD/TW and at the same time added new content: Party members are not allowed to threaten, suppress, or retaliate against complainants and denouncers; not implementing Party regulations and laws on protecting whistleblowers, critics, and contributors; inciting, inciting, bribing, or forcing others to make complaints and denunciations. This content is specified from the Law on Complaints and Denunciations.

Article 9Inherited from Article 13, Regulation 47-QD/TW and at the same time supplemented with new contents to specify the Politburo's Regulation on a number of issues of protecting internal Party politics;

Article 11inherited from Article 8, Regulation 47-QD/TW and adjusted and supplemented a number of contents, including the concretization of the content of Conclusion No. 14-KL/TW, dated September 22, 2021 of the Politburo on the policy of encouraging and protecting dynamic and creative cadres for the common good;

Article 12inherited from Article 10, Regulation 47-QD/TW but supplemented with many contents to specify Regulation No. 205-QD/TW, dated September 23, 2019 of the Politburo on controlling power in personnel work and combating the abuse of power and positions;

Based on Article 9, Regulation 47-QD/TW, the Central Executive Committee has adjusted and supplemented most of the new content into Article 13, Regulation 37-QD/TW. The content of this article aims to effectively implement the Party and State's policy on preventing and combating corruption and negativity.

In addition, other things are inherited and supplemented to make it more complete.

Regulation 37-QD/TW on things that party members are not allowed to do takes effect from October 25, 2021. All party members strictly comply with the regulations on things that party members are not allowed to do, which contributes to strengthening the Party's discipline and maintaining the political qualities, revolutionary ethics, and exemplary vanguard nature of party members, and improving the leadership capacity and fighting strength of the party organization.