General Secretary To Lam attends and directs the Party Internal Affairs sector's summary conference
On the afternoon of December 31, Comrade To Lam - General Secretary, Head of the Central Steering Committee on Anti-Corruption, Wastefulness, and Negativity attended and directed the National Online Conference to review the work of the Party Internal Affairs sector and the activities of the Provincial Steering Committee on Anti-Corruption, Wastefulness, and Negativity in 2024, and directions and tasks for 2025.
Comrade Phan Dinh Trac - Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Internal Affairs Commission and Deputy Heads co-chaired the conference.
Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee chaired the Nghe An provincial bridge. Attending the conference were comrades of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee: Pham Trong Hoang - Chairman of the Provincial Party Committee's Inspection Committee; Ho Le Ngoc - Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Internal Affairs Committee; leaders of relevant departments, agencies and branches.
Disciplined 949 Party organizations
and 4,372 corrupt and negative party members
In 2024, the Party Internal Affairs sector has researched and advised the Politburo, the Secretariat, provincial and municipal Party Committees to review, summarize, issue new policies and effectively implement many important policies and regulations on internal affairs, preventing and combating corruption, waste, negativity and judicial reform.
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In particular, it has proposed that the Steering Committee have a policy and coordinate with competent agencies to advise the Politburo to issue regulations on controlling power in the field of law-making; regulations on controlling power in the management and use of public finance and assets.
Provincial Steering Committees are operating more and more orderly and effectively, affirming their role as "commanding, regulating and coordinating centers" in the work of preventing and combating corruption, waste and negativity at the local level.
In order to properly implement the direction of General Secretary To Lam that corruption, waste and negativity must be prevented and combated from the local level and under the supervision of the people, especially the direction to strengthen inspection, supervision and audit work, promptly detect and strictly handle violations, in 2024, the Steering Committees of localities conducted 231 inspections and audits. Party committees and inspection committees at all levels disciplined 949 Party organizations and 4,372 corrupt and negative Party members; resigned and dismissed 362 officials; through inspection work, functional agencies proposed to handle the responsibilities of nearly 3,000 collectives and 11,000 individuals...
Directing the overcoming of difficulties and obstacles, investigating and thoroughly handling many serious and complicated corruption and negative cases that are of public concern, including long-standing cases and incidents related to local leaders and managers at all levels and cases and incidents assigned by the Central Steering Committee.
During the year, the provincial Steering Committees decided to put 155 corruption and negative cases under monitoring and direction; directed local prosecution agencies to prosecute 848 new cases/1,884 defendants for corruption crimes; many localities prosecuted and investigated officials under the management of provincial and municipal Party Committees.
Along with promoting the work of detecting and handling corruption and negativity, the provincial Steering Committees have also paid attention to leading and directing the improvement of the effectiveness of preventive solutions, and paid attention to directing the correction and handling of the situation of evasion, fear of responsibility, and reluctance to act among cadres, civil servants, and public employees, and the situation of harassment and causing trouble for people and businesses.
The work of guiding, urging, inspecting and supervising the implementation of policies and regulations on internal affairs, preventing and combating corruption, waste, negativity and judicial reform has many innovations, and the quality and efficiency have been improved. The sector has done a good job of advising the Party Committee to direct the improvement of the effectiveness of public reception, handling complaints and denunciations and handling complicated issues arising in political security, order and social safety.
Attention has been paid to the work of building the Party's Internal Affairs sector; the review, arrangement, and streamlining of the apparatus and staff have been strictly implemented according to Resolution No. 18-NQ/TW of the Party.
Determined not to be allowed into the new Party Committee
corrupt, wasteful, negative cadres
Concluding the conference, General Secretary To Lam emphasized that 2024, despite many difficulties and challenges, achieved many important achievements in the socio-economic, security, defense, and foreign affairs situations.
Internal affairs, anti-corruption, waste and negativity work has been carried out strongly, resolutely, continuously, without rest, without forbidden areas, without exceptions. The trust and consensus of cadres, party members and people towards the Party, the State and the regime continue to be consolidated and strengthened.
The General Secretary affirmed that the important role of the Party's Internal Affairs sector at all levels and the Steering Committees at the Central and provincial levels in contributing to that result is important. The position and role of the Party's Internal Affairs sector and the Steering Committee for the prevention and combat of corruption, waste and negativity at the provincial level are increasingly affirmed.
In addition to the achieved results, General Secretary To Lam said that the activities of some provincial Steering Committees are still not really disciplined; corruption and negativity in some areas and fields are still complicated; the work of preventing and combating waste has not received due attention; the situation of evasion, pushing, harassment, and people have not been overcome...
Emphasizing the important significance of 2025 in deciding the success of the Resolution of the 13th Party Congress and preparing for Party congresses at all levels, towards the 14th National Party Congress, the General Secretary said that, with its position and role as a strategic advisory body, the "eyes and ears" of the Party, the Internal Affairs sector advises the Party to lead and direct the continued promotion of the work of preventing and combating waste and negativity; resolutely not allowing degraded, corrupt, wasteful, negative cadres, and dishonest asset declarations to enter the new Party Committee, and not allowing them to affect the Party's reputation.
The Internal Affairs Sector and Steering Committees at all levels continue to improve the effectiveness of research and propose the Party's viewpoints and policies on internal affairs, on preventing and combating corruption, waste, negativity and judicial reform; focus on researching, advising, proposing, perfecting and improving the quality of draft documents for Party Congresses at all levels and Party Congresses.
At the same time, advise and direct the supplementation and overcoming of loopholes and shortcomings, and the removal of bottlenecks and institutional bottlenecks in general, and in the field of preventing and combating corruption, waste and negativity in particular, creating new momentum for the country's development.
General Secretary To Lam requested the Internal Affairs sector to focus on advising, directing the implementation, and drastic implementation, creating strong changes and breakthroughs in the work of preventing and combating waste in the whole society. Identifying the prevention and combating of waste as an urgent, priority task, doing it immediately, in the immediate future, reviewing the backlog of works and projects, projects that are behind schedule, causing great loss and waste... there must definitely be an address to handle it, and someone responsible for this.
Advise, direct, strengthen inspection, supervision, and examination of fields, localities, and cadres at all levels with public information on corruption, waste, and negativity; investigate and thoroughly handle serious, complicated corruption, waste, and negativity cases and incidents that are of public concern, especially projects related to personnel at all levels.
General Secretary To Lam also requested to direct the further improvement of the effectiveness of solutions to prevent corruption, waste, and negativity with the motto of preventing early and from afar, not allowing small violations to accumulate into major mistakes.
In particular, the Internal Affairs sector needs to urgently review and streamline its apparatus in accordance with the plan to summarize Resolution No. 18 of the Central Steering Committee; build a team of Internal Affairs cadres, prevent and combat corruption, waste, and negativity that must be truly brave, "diligent, thrifty, honest, impartial and selfless"...