General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong: From the results of the vote of confidence, planning the Politburo and Secretariat for the new term

Speaking at the closing ceremony of the 13th Party Central Committee's mid-term conference on the morning of May 17, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong said that after two and a half days (from May 15 to the morning of May 17, 2023) of working urgently, seriously and responsibly, the conference was a great success.

Looking back at the first half of the 13th term, the General Secretary emphasized that our country has steadfastly overcome all difficulties and challenges, continuing to achieve important and quite comprehensive results in many fields. Photo: Nhat Bac

Summarizing the socio-economic situation in the first half of the term, the General Secretary cited the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s assessment that "Vietnam is a bright spot in the gray picture of the global economy."

The General Secretary reiterated that economic growth in 2021 reached 2.56%, while many economies in the world experienced negative growth; economic growth in 2022 reached 8.02%, much higher than the plan (6 - 6.5%) and at a high level compared to other countries in the region as well as in the world.

Although GDP growth in the first quarter only reached 3.2% over the same period, according to forecasts of many international organizations, the whole year of 2023 can still reach 6 - 6.5%...

There is in, there is out; there is up, there is down.

According to the General Secretary, the Politburo and the Secretariat always adhere to the viewpoints, guiding thoughts, goals and tasks of the work of preventing and combating corruption and negativity. There have been many positive innovations in the field of preventing and combating corruption and negativity.

General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong affirmed: "Never before has the work of fighting corruption and negativity in our country been directed in such a strong, methodical, synchronous, drastic and clearly effective manner as in recent times."

Since then, it has left a remarkable mark, created high consensus in the whole society and consolidated and strengthened the trust of cadres, party members and people in our Party, State and regime.

The work of detecting and handling corruption affirms the high determination of our Party, State and people: "no forbidden zones, no exceptions, no matter who the person is; not subject to pressure from any organization or individual."

The work of Party building and rectification has created positive changes, with many outstanding marks in the more harmonious and smooth combination between "building" and "fighting", more comprehensively in all aspects of Party building work.

In particular, personnel work continues to be given more importance and more importance, with its position and role as "the key of the key"...

General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong. Photo: Nhat Bac

The General Secretary said that up to now, the Central Executive Committee, the Politburo, and the Secretariat have considered removing from office, retiring, or assigning other work to 14 officials under the Central management.

Localities also arranged work and implemented policies for 22 cases of cadres after being disciplined in accordance with the Party's policy of "some come in, some go out; some go up, some go down".

Thereby demonstrating the spirit of determination, exemplary, strictness, humanity, having the effect of educating, alerting, warning, and deterring the contingent of cadres, civil servants, and party members. At the same time, promptly directing the completion of replacement leadership personnel, which has received the consensus and high appreciation of public opinion of cadres, party members, and people.

In addition, the Party's inspection, supervision and discipline work continues to be innovated, contributing to building a clean and strong Party and political system; restraining, preventing and repelling the degradation of political ideology, ethics, lifestyle, manifestations of "self-evolution" and "self-transformation" within the Party as well as corruption, "group interests", "term thinking"; "individualism", "power degeneration" in a significant number of cadres and Party members...

Planning of the Central Executive Committee and Politburo for the 2026 - 2031 term

Regarding the direction and key tasks from now until the end of the 13th Congress term, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong noted that "we must absolutely not be subjective, complacent, or too enamored with the results and achievements that have been achieved, nor too pessimistic or wavering in the face of difficulties and challenges.

On the contrary, according to the General Secretary, we need to be calm, clear-headed, and make good use of existing results and lessons learned, and overcome existing limitations and weaknesses, especially from the beginning of the 13th term until now.

Delegates attending the conference.

General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong requested to focus on consolidating and strengthening the macroeconomic foundation, controlling inflation, improving the internal capacity and autonomy of the economy on the basis of making it healthy, maintaining the stable and safe development of the system of credit institutions and the monetary, real estate, stock and corporate bond markets.

At the same time, focus on prioritizing improving the investment and business environment; effectively resolving difficulties, limitations, and weaknesses, both short-term and long-term, of the economy...

General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong also emphasized the need to proactively prevent and resolutely fight to defeat all sabotage plots of hostile and reactionary forces; absolutely not to be passive or surprised in any situation...

The General Secretary requested to continue to promote and do better the work of building and rectifying the Party and the political system to be truly clean and strong, especially the system of legislative, executive and judicial agencies from the central to local levels.

In particular, resolutely prevent, repel, and strictly handle cadres and party members who have degraded in political ideology, ethics, and lifestyle, and show signs of "self-evolution" and "self-transformation", associated with studying and following Ho Chi Minh's ideology, ethics, and lifestyle.

General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong noted that it is necessary to do better in personnel work to select and arrange the right people with virtue, talent, integrity, dedication, and devotion to the country and people into leadership positions in the state apparatus.

Resolutely fight to eliminate those who fall into corruption and depravity; oppose all manifestations of power-seeking, localism, and preferential recruitment of unqualified relatives and family members.

Along with that is promoting democracy, raising the sense of responsibility, setting examples; the spirit of serving the people of cadres, civil servants and public employees; having mechanisms and policies to encourage and protect dynamic, creative people who dare to think, dare to do, dare to take responsibility...

The General Secretary also stated that it is necessary to step up the building and improvement of laws, mechanisms and policies so that "corruption cannot, does not dare, and does not want to occur".

In particular, it is necessary to rectify and fight against the backward thinking and the concern that if the fight against corruption and negativity is too strong, it will hinder development, discourage, "hold back", "defend", "cover up", keep "safe", avoid and shirk responsibility in a group of cadres and civil servants, especially leaders and managers at all levels.

The General Secretary reiterated, "Whoever has that mindset should stand aside and let others do it!" and emphasized: Those who directly do organizational and personnel work must have strong will and determination, a pure heart, and a discerning eye. Don't "see a chicken as a country"; "don't see red and think it's ripe."

Regarding preparations for party congresses at all levels, leading up to the 14th National Party Congress, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong said that, based on the results and experience of organizing the vote of confidence for members of the Politburo and Secretariat, it is necessary to focus on leading and directing the organization to effectively implement the vote of confidence for leadership and management positions in the political system.

At the same time, develop a plan for leaders at all levels, especially the plan for the Central Executive Committee, Politburo, and Secretariat for the 14th term 2026-2031; prepare for party congresses at all levels for the 2025-2030 term, towards the 14th National Party Congress.