Avoid missing out on talented people and letting the incompetent and unfortunate ones slip through the net.

Avoid missing out on talented people and letting incompetent and unfortunate people slip through the net, then forming cliques and forming a family-run team...

Standing member of the National Assembly's Finance and Budget Committee Le Thanh Van expressed his concern about the current personnel work. From his observations, the personnel work is revealing many worrying issues that have never happened before.

Why can unqualified officials like Trinh Xuan Thanh easily pass through so many rounds, with a whole legalization process? And the matter of the whole family holding positions, promoting and appointing without objectivity... all of which need to be prevented.

"If we do not push back until it ends, the political mechanism of the Party and State will be strongly impacted, threatening the survival of the regime," he shared.

National Assembly Delegate Le Thanh Van. Photo: Hoang Anh

The regulations still have loopholes.

According to you, what are the reasons that have led to the emergence of many unprecedented problems in personnel work as you have just concluded?

- The underlying cause is that political awareness, patriotism, and responsibility for the common good in each cadre are not high. The ego is still too big.

Ego is expressed in self-exaltation of one's role, greed and corruption through personnel work. Ego is to gain for oneself, for one's family and relatives, first of all political benefits, then profiteering in personnel arrangement.

Obviously, the situation is very alarming at a high level, so taking care of and consolidating political and ideological work, building the political system and state apparatus is probably a concern that requires the entire Party and the entire people to focus on solving.

The root of all work is cadres, the safety of the country is also cadres.

Are there any loopholes in legal regulations that led to the prominent phenomenon in personnel work last year?

- The Party's institutions and regulations, and the State's legal documents have mentioned quite comprehensively the organizational and personnel work of the apparatus. However, the operators of those regulations are not pure in heart, not bright in mind, combined with the influence of many interests, leading to many violations in personnel work.

Firstly, people have incomplete awareness and simple thinking, leading to violations of regulations. This is an unintentional mistake, reflecting the quality and capacity of the staff that has not met requirements.

Second, people know the regulations well, but they circumvent them, legalize them, and now they are becoming something that public opinion ridicules, which is "following the procedure". This is a subjective mistake, intentionally violating the rules.

Third, some regulations of the Party and State are still not strict enough and have loopholes, so they are abused.

There are violations that have accumulated in the past, and there are violations that are happening. If not prevented in time, there will be a risk of causing unpredictable consequences in personnel work.

Therefore, in addition to institutionalizing Resolution 4 of the 12th Central Committee, it is necessary to promote the rectification of organizational work.

Talented officials must possess 3 factors

To rectify the work of organizing cadres, what solutions and actions are needed?

- In the immediate future, it is necessary to review Party and State documents on the process of discovering, selecting, arranging and using cadres. In particular, the cadre evaluation process must be public, fair and impartial.

To have a basis for accurately assessing the talent and virtue of cadres, it is necessary to develop a set of criteria on capacity, qualifications, and qualities; criteria on talent, commitment to completing tasks, and dedication to "impartiality" and "rule of law".

I really like the 3C talent theory (Talent Formula) of American Professor Dave Ulrich, University of Michigan. That is competence - capacity, contribution - dedication and commitment - commitment.

Obviously, a competent and even more talented cadre must possess these three factors. To some extent, these three factors reflect the process of discovering, selecting and promoting talented people.

If we recommend in general terms with collective recommendation through voting, but that collective is not transparent, how can we choose the right talent? Democracy must be objective and transparent, while factional democracy is very dangerous.

At the local level, if the standing committee of the Party Committee introduces a new executive committee for the Congress to elect, it must be seen whether there are conflicts, discord, or group interests in that standing committee. Especially the role of the provincial Party Secretary with responsibility to the Party for personnel work.

Superiors must have many channels to check and monitor transparency. They should not completely trust the nominations of the standing committee or executive committee at lower levels, especially in places with scandals that have been exposed by the press and public opinion.

Especially the key personnel in the provinces under the management of the Politburo and the Secretariat must be considered very carefully, to avoid missing out on talented people and letting incompetent and unlucky people slip through the net, then forming cliques, forming a nepotism team, or interest group. This is extremely dangerous.

To do so, we must impartially listen to public opinion from local officials, party members and people.

According to VNN