Building a legal system strong enough to control power

According to experts, if officials are found to have signs of violating the law or degenerating, including high-ranking officials, they need to be strictly punished to set an example...

During 30 years of renovation, the Communist Party of Vietnam has always adhered to the motto of "looking straight at the truth, correctly assessing the truth, and clearly stating the truth". This is a sharp weapon to build and rectify the Party, maintaining the Party's position and ruling role in leading the country and society. Documents of the Party Congresses during 30 years of renovation have always clearly demonstrated this motto. Especially at historical and turning-point moments, this motto has become a basis and premise for important decisions of the Party.

"The important thing is that our Party does not hide its shortcomings"

MSc. Nguyen Van Chung, Communist Magazine, said that reviewing the documents of the 6 Party Congresses in 30 years of renovation shows that looking straight at the truth and correctly assessing the truth has become a consistent viewpoint, a motto for thinking and acting of the Party in the renovation period. At each Congress, in addition to stating the achieved results, the Party strictly recognized the limitations in leadership and direction and believed that these limitations and weaknesses were mainly due to subjective causes. That attitude demonstrates the Party's responsibility and courage before the people and the nation.

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“Looking straight at the truth, correctly assessing the truth, clearly stating the truth and acting in accordance with the truth demonstrates the courage, sense of responsibility and morality of a ruling Party before the fate of the nation and the regime. This motto also demonstrates the qualities, ethics and culture of a ruling Party. In innovation, the Party always adheres to the viewpoint that “people are the root” for the benefit of the people, relying on the people. Without the support and trust of the people, innovation will fail. In innovation and leadership and direction, the Party cannot avoid mistakes and shortcomings. At times like these, the Party bravely faces mistakes, strictly and sincerely admits mistakes. In particular, when admitting mistakes, it is determined to correct and overcome them, bringing the innovation process to success. General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong assessed that “the important thing is that our Party does not hide shortcomings and mistakes but openly admits them, sincerely listens to people's opinions; And once mistakes are discovered and realized, we are determined to correct them and strive to improve, from which the Party will grow more and more mature" - Mr. Chung analyzed.

The Political Report of the 11th Party Central Committee at the 12th Party Congress drew 5 experiences after 5 years of implementing the Resolution of the 11th Congress, in which the second experience is "looking straight at the truth, correctly assessing the truth, clearly stating the truth, closely following the reality of the country and the world, at the same time grasping and forecasting new developments to promptly identify and adjust a number of policies, tasks and solutions accordingly. It is necessary to attach importance to summarizing practices, researching theories, directing resolutely, persistently and creatively to organize the successful implementation of the correct policies of the Party and State.

The report summarizing a number of theoretical and practical issues over 30 years of renovation also pointed out that the four risks raised by the 7th Mid-Term National Delegates Conference still exist, with complex developments such as the risk of "peaceful evolution" by hostile forces with new sophisticated and insidious tricks to sabotage us, and the manifestations of "self-evolution" and "self-transformation" within the Party. The trust of cadres, party members and people in the Party and the regime has been reduced.

In the past 10 years, when Vietnam has deeply integrated into the region and the world, many internal weaknesses, especially institutional and governance shortcomings, have become more evident. Growth quality, productivity, efficiency, competitiveness, and economic autonomy are still low, social culture, education and training, science and technology still have many shortcomings, social ethics have degraded, etc. These are the main reasons why the economy has not developed sustainably, not commensurate with the potential and reality of mobilized resources.

In particular, due to the negative impact of the market mechanism, the lack of training and practice as well as the shortcomings of the Party and State mechanisms and apparatus, a significant number of cadres and Party members have degraded in political ideology, ethics, lifestyle, bureaucracy, corruption, etc. This situation is hindering the implementation of the Party's guidelines and policies, causing discontent and reducing people's trust, threatening the survival of the Party and the regime.

Building a legal system strong enough to control power

Dr. Nguyen Dinh Hoa, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, said that the Party is a political organization with strict discipline, consisting of elite people, both "red" and "specialized", wholeheartedly and voluntarily serving the interests of the Fatherland. However, as President Ho Chi Minh said, Party members and cadres are also human beings, and ordinary people are not gods, meaning that they cannot avoid shortcomings due to infection from the outside. There are many types of shortcomings and the danger is that they can damage the prestige and fighting strength of the Party if not promptly discovered and corrected.

Currently, we are facing many great challenges. Among them is the attitude of taking lightly the cultivation and training of revolutionary ethics, not seriously practicing criticism and self-criticism... causing many party members and cadres to fall before the temptations of everyday life. The failure to win, the inability to overcome the small and selfish "ego" to become slaves to personal desires in a group of party members and cadres is both the deep root and the support leading to evils such as corruption, bribery, abuse of power, disunity...

MSc. Nguyen Van Chung also said that one of the limitations and weaknesses that has persisted for many terms but has been slow to be overcome, and has even become increasingly painful, reducing people's trust in the Party is the state of degradation in political ideology, ethics, and lifestyle among a large number of cadres and Party members, including some high-ranking cadres. This is a major threat to the survival of the Party and the regime.

To overcome these risks and continue to create changes in Party building work, according to Mr. Nguyen Van Chung, it is necessary to thoroughly grasp the motto of "looking straight at the truth, correctly assessing the truth, clearly stating the truth". Accordingly, focusing on groups of solutions on organization, cadres, mechanisms and policies. Research, build and promulgate a system of synchronous legal documents, strong enough to prevent corruption, control power... "For the survival of the Party and the regime, if cadres are found to have signs of violating the law, being corrupt, degenerate, or changing, including high-ranking cadres, it is necessary to strictly handle them to set an example, to answer the question that has been "buzzing" in the Party and society for a long time: who are the large number of cadres and party members who have degraded in political ideology, ethics and lifestyle?".

Dr. Nguyen Dinh Hoa, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, also said that, along with the synchronous implementation of many other measures, the Party needs to pay attention to promoting inspection work, conducting criticism and self-criticism to push back individualism in Party organizations and the State apparatus. Educate cadres and party members on revolutionary ethics so that they can truly become loyal "servants" and "servants" of the people. "Only with a pure and healthy mind can each cadre and party member truly have the right motivation, emotions and revolutionary ethics, and always think and act for the common interests of the people and the country. If everyone is always vigilant and actively fights against individualism, which is manifested in many sophisticated forms, it also means that they are aware of reaching out for the common good for the collective and the community"./.

According to VOV.VN