Vietnamese communist chief powerless in dealing with systemic corruption

Chairman of the People’s Committee of Dong Nai province Cao Tien Dung was disciplined

In Hanoi, when the city’s Chairman Nguyen Duc Chung was arrested, Chu Ngoc Anh took over his post. Mr. Chu Ngoc Anh replaced him shortly before he was also imprisoned for his involvement in Viet A scandal. Although Chung’s predecessor Nguyen The Thao retired without being probed, but his mistake left for the city is very big. Then Nguyen Duc Chung replaced Thao also made mistakes.

This story not only happened to Hanoi, but it also happened to Ho Chi Minh City. Secretary Le Thanh Hai left the wrongdoing Thu Thiem with serious injustice, the person who replaced him, Dinh La Thang, was also not clean.

On June 3, Mr. Tran Luu Quang, Deputy Prime Minister, signed decisions on disciplinary enforcement in the form of warnings against Cao Tien Dung, Chairman of the People’s Committee of Dong Nai province, due to his violations and shortcomings in work. At the same time, the Central Inspection Commission enforced Party discipline with Cao Tien Dung.

Previously, Dinh Quoc Thai, former Chairman of the People’s Committee of Dong Nai province, was also probed and detained by police for investigation on the crime of “taking bribes.” with Mr. Thai at that time was Mr., Former Secretary of Dong Nai province Tran Dinh Thanh was also arrested.

There are many other cases showing that, after Mr. Nguyen Phu Trong started his anti-corruption campaign known as burning furnace, he replaced the vacant positions with corrupt people. In fact, the Communist Party does not have a clean person to replace the one who has been indignant. Embezzlement in Vietnam has grown to the point that it cannot be eliminated. Within the Communist Party there are many interest groups, and in each interest group, each individual is just a link. Mr. Nguyen Phu Trong’s burning furnace was to cut a link in the corrupt apparatus, and when that link was replaced with another individual, the corrupt apparatus operated again.

Mr. Nguyen Phu Trong is passionate about anti-corruption, and he also wrote anti-corruption books, considering it a kind of ideology, to force students into university to read it all. Mr. Nguyen Phu Trong’s anti-corruption is the way of the highest authority against the officials under him, Mr. Nguyen Phu Trong will fight corruption easily. As for students, most of which are civilians, do they dare to fight corruption? If you dare to denounce corruption, you will be beaten, who dares?

In fact, the anti-corruption game is only a game for the General Secretary, not for grassroots officials. Because the power of corruption fighter is not big enough to set up anti-corruption, the fighter will be beaten by corrupt officials. Remember, on March 4, 2016, Pham Trong Dat, Director of the Anti-Corruption Department, Government Inspector, delivered a speech on anti-corruption work at the Conference summarizing 10 years of implementation of the Anti-Corruption Law (Anti-corruption Conference), organized by the Ministry of Justice. Mr. Dat said, “We may die first!” And that statement most reflects the fact that the fight against corruption is only for the General Secretary.

Fighting corruption by replacing one corrupt official with another is useless. What is given to the people is not, before the anti-corruption, the Communist Party is the corrupt Party, after the anti-corruption, the Communist Party is also the corrupt Party.

In order to clean up the Communist Party, Mr. Nguyen Phu Trong should have found a clean official to replace him. However, finding clean officials is impossible for the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam.

The truth that the Communist Party needs to admit is that it cannot have clean officials. However, if that fact is acknowledged, the regime wobbles. When taking power to rule the entire Vietnamese people, the Communist Party set up a huge propaganda machine. Its purpose is to create good, but not real, values to paint a mask for the Party. Thanks to that, the whole Party is safe to gouge the entire people for self-interest.

Thoibao.de (Translated)

Kasse animation 7.8.2023