Determination to clean up the Party: A command from life

During the past week, a series of decisions related to personnel work and Party discipline have been made public to the entire population. This shows a reality: The determination to clean up the Party is taking steady steps. Words must go hand in hand with actions, sequentially, following the correct procedures. Individuals and Party organizations that have committed “serious” or “very serious” violations must take responsibility for their actions.

Unfortunately, all of those violations are not "strange" from the 27 manifestations of degradation, "self-evolution", and "self-transformation" that Resolution 4 of the 12th Central Committee pointed out. Most of the public opinion, on the one hand, feels reassured, but many also feel bitter when high-ranking generals in the police and military sectors have been "involved".

The common and easily recognizable violation of the recently disciplined cadres is “violating the principle of democratic centralism” - a fundamental principle in Party organization and activities. As leaders or high-ranking officials in the Party organization, they should naturally understand this principle but still deliberately violate it. Implementing democracy in a formal way, hiding under the guise of centralism to promote the role of individuals or disrespecting the collective, making decisions in the name of the collective that go against the Party’s resolutions, State policies and laws, or exceeding authority…

Resolution 4 of the 12th Party Central Committee affirmed that violating or deviating from the principle of democratic centralism will create an environment for ideologies that are alien to the Party's line to exist and thrive, essentially destroying the Party both organizationally and ideologically; and is a cause leading to degradation, "self-evolution", and "self-transformation" within the Party.

The second common point in the recent violations is the lack of responsibility, lax leadership, management, lack of inspection and supervision, allowing many violations and shortcomings in the fields of land management and use, economic project implementation, violations in production and business operations, causing loss of state assets... Public opinion cannot help but feel heartbroken when thousands of billions of dong of budget capital, tens of thousands of square meters of public real estate have been misused, creating conditions for opportunists to turn "public property" into "private property".

The Politburo disciplined Mr. Truong Minh Tuan and Nguyen Bac Son.

It is worth mentioning that those who violate the Party's operating principles are party committee officials, including members of the Central Committee; those who violate the business's operating regulations are the heads of the businesses; those who protect illegal activities are the ones assigned to enforce the law; those who violate regulations on protecting state secrets are the heads of the intelligence sector... The above violations, concluded by the Central Inspection Committee, "cause serious consequences", have a very negative impact on the reputation of the party organization, the industry and individuals, causing bad public opinion and indignation in society. One of the 27 signs of degradation pointed out by the Central Committee is: Taking advantage of and abusing assigned positions and powers to condone, cover up, and assist corruption and negativity.

Following the conclusion of the Central Inspection Committee, the authorities have taken action. One by one, the offending officials have been punished by: expulsion from the Party, removal from all Party positions, demotion, reduction in rank, prosecution before the law... Whoever violates, regardless of the field, will be punished equally before the Party's regulations and the State's laws.

The Politburo and the Central Party Secretariat have decided to remove Mr. Bui Van Thanh from all Party positions due to the violations he has committed.

The determination to purify the Party can only be realized when the leader is truly clean, moral, steadfast as a rock, acting for the survival of the Party and the nation. No obstacle can hinder or falter, even though we know that fighting with our comrades and teammates is the most difficult struggle. The determination to purify the Party is also to preserve the prestige and reputation of the Party and, more importantly, to maintain the people's trust in the Party. The determination to purify the Party is also the command of today's generation to the previous generation, to preserve and protect the achievements that had to be exchanged with the blood and bones of many generations of Vietnamese people.

Therefore, it is not by chance that when hearing the news that high-ranking officers and generals in the armed forces were disciplined, a veteran laughed through tears. He was very happy, very confident, but could not hide his bitterness. His mood was also the common mood of many people.

The 12th term has passed its halfway point. More than 50 cadres under the management of the Politburo and Secretariat have been disciplined. That is an undesirable number. In the middle of the courtroom, a former Politburo member, when given the last word, apologized to the Party and the people. But in the middle of the courtroom, there was a cadre who was a local leader and was elected to the National Assembly, choking with emotion, "I apologize to the General Secretary" and hoping to reunite with his wife and children in a foreign land!

At the pinnacle of power, people are easily lulled by money, fame and material temptations. Therefore, in order not to "lose cadres" and not to lose the people's trust, what public opinion expects most is that the Party's regulations and the State's policies and laws must be strictly enforced in practice. Controlling power and "locking" power in a "legal cage" must be further strengthened. And above all, in selecting cadres, we must definitely uphold morality and integrity. Only then will we not be ashamed to say, "Our Party is moral and civilized."