Recommending the wrong person, retired officials still have to take responsibility

Overcoming the situation of appointing "correct procedures" but not the right person

In the stages of personnel work, selecting and introducing cadres is a particularly important prerequisite. Because reality has shown that only when selecting and introducing the right cadres with sufficient qualities and abilities can the planning, training, fostering, rotation and arrangement of cadres be objective and accurate. On the contrary, if the introduction is incorrect, the arrangement and use will be incorrect and lead to unpredictable consequences, especially the wrong arrangement of key cadres.

In order to select the right and suitable cadres, at the National Cadre Conference to thoroughly grasp and implement the conclusions and regulations of the Central Executive Committee on promoting Party building and rectification held in December 2021, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong noted that in the coming time, a number of policies will be piloted, such as: "The leader is selected, introduced and must be responsible for introducing cadres in the planning to carry out the election process and appoint his/her deputy; The Party Committee Secretary introduces to elect members of the Standing Committee and must be responsible for his/her introduction...".

General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong gave instructions at the National Cadre Conference to disseminate and implement the conclusions and regulations of the Central Executive Committee on promoting Party building and rectification in December 2021.

Associate Professor, Dr. Le Quoc Ly - former Deputy Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics said that what cadres, party members, and people most desire is to prevent the situation of "localism", "individualism", appointment of relatives, relatives, cronies, the root cause of which is the degradation of a part of cadres and party members, due to factions and localism in cadre work.

To overcome this problem, the first thing to do is to establish the correct responsibility of the leader in selecting officials. The leader must take ultimate responsibility for selecting and introducing personnel in the planning to carry out the election and appointment process. If the person introduced is not qualified and capable, violates the law, the person who directly introduces that official must be jointly responsible before the Party, before the people, and even lose his/her position.

Because more than anyone else, the unit leader must be the one who has a firm grasp of the information, qualities, and abilities of the person being introduced. He must be truly fair, impartial, and objective. He cannot choose a person who, despite knowing his weaknesses, is still recommended because of his friends, his faction, or because of "buying and selling" a position.

Agreeing with the Central Government's pilot policy, Mr. Le Quoc Ly said that it is necessary to clearly separate individual responsibility from collective responsibility, because if not careful, it will lead to extremes of authoritarianism, "factionalism", "nepotism", and even opportunities for corruption.

Furthermore, personnel work is the key of all keys, so it must be carried out according to a strict, scientific, consistent process, ensuring fairness and objectivity. Although the head is given more authority in selecting and recommending cadres to carry out the appointment process of his deputy, that does not mean that he can appoint anyone he wants, but must still promote democracy, seek the opinions of the Party Committee, carry out publicity and transparency, as well as provide clear and convincing criteria for selecting cadres.

Associate Professor, Dr. Le Quoc Ly - former Deputy Director of Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics.

According to Mr. Le Quoc Ly, our ancestors from the feudal era have stipulated that the person who recommends must be responsible for the person being recommended. When the person being recommended makes achievements, is rewarded, and promoted, the person who recommends also enjoys that honor.

On the contrary, if we recommend the wrong person, harm the interests of the country, we must be punished. This time, in the 13th Congress term, the Central Committee has a policy of promoting the responsibility of the leader in selecting and recommending cadres. Accordingly, the general spirit is to learn from the experience of our ancestors, because only by being strict and clear like that can we bind the responsibility if we recommend the wrong cadre.

Recalling the story of many people who had high expectations that the XIIIth term cadres were selected to be clean people, but not long after the Congress, a number of corrupt, degenerate, and degenerate cadres were discovered, including members of the Central Committee, Mr. Le Quoc Ly said that this is something worth pondering. In some cases, the cadre work seemed to be done according to the correct procedures but turned out to be incorrect, following the correct procedures but the wrong people were introduced, leaving behind many consequences that had to be dealt with and resolved. However, what makes public opinion concerned is that no one who introduced, nominated, or recommended cadres has been held responsible for introducing the wrong cadres.

The Central Committee's proposal to pilot the responsibility of leaders in selecting and introducing personnel is very correct and urgent. Many opinions say that in order to discover, select, and introduce truly virtuous and talented people to be deputy or members of the Standing Committee, it is necessary to promote research, develop, and perfect regulations and rules related to the introduction of cadres, along with the work of tracing responsibility even after retirement.

"Even if the leader retires 5 or 10 years later, if the cadre they introduced later falls into trouble and gets into trouble with the law, the leader must still take responsibility," said Mr. Le Quoc Ly, emphasizing the fact that leaders are not impartial and objective. When they intend to promote someone, they will "find a way" to appoint cadre A and not cadre B. Therefore, if there is no inspection, supervision and long-term responsibility, it will be difficult to choose clean cadres./.