Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong (second from left) and senior officials at the meeting of the sub-committee on personnel affairs of the 14th National Party Congress on March 13. (Photo: VNA) The Party leader delivered a speech at the recent first meeting of the sub-committee on personnel affairs ofthe 14th National Party Congress which focuses onsome issues requiring special attention during the personnel preparation forthe coming congress. In the address, he underlined the demand for not missing truly moral,talented, and eligible persons while preventing those committing any of certainshortcomings from entering the 14th Party Central Committee.
Voicing support for the speech, Giang Mi Say, Secretary of the Party Committeeof Lung Cu commune in Dong Van district, the northernmost province of Ha Giang,noted one of the first shortcomings General Secretary Trong mentioned in hisspeech is to show unsteadfast political mettle; not stay persistent in theParty’s guidelines and viewpoints; show political opportunism, desire for power,flattery, solicitation, corruption, bureaucracy, and group interests; and neitherprotect the right nor fight against the wrong.
Saysaid members of the Party Central Committee are outstanding individuals whohave served in many positions, so they need to bring into play their sense ofresponsibility and build a strong political mettle – a factor critical to theirtask performance.
Besides, violating the principle ofdemocratic centralism, practicing demagogy and arbitrariness, showingunfairness or injustice in personnel assessment and use, and repressing those straightforwardlyvoicing criticism are also shortcomings that a member of the Party CentralCommittee must avoid, according to the Lung Cu official.
LawyerHa Huy Tu, Director of the Legal Advisory Centre for the Poor and Community Developmentat the Vietnam Lawyers Association, perceived that the speech by the Partychief, who is also head of the sub-committee on personnel affairs ofthe 14th National Party Congress, is both general and detailed,easy to be applied in reality.
General Secretary Trong’s speech alsoaims to help the public realise signs of shortcomings to prevent ineligiblepersons who lack morality or talent from holding leadership posts.
Over the recent past, Tu went on, thecombat against economic crimes and corruption has proved that an individual showingany of the shortcomings pointed out by the Party leader may cause negative consequences for the nation and the people.
Basing on experience of previoustenures, the speech identified righteous and comprehensive methodology forselecting personnel for not only the Party’s next tenure but also many years tocome, he said.
Thelawyer also highly valued the speech’s statement that the personnel preparationfor the 14th National Party Congress is a task of not only thepersonnel affairs sub-committee, the Politburo, the Secretariat, or the PartyCentral Committee but also the entire political system, all-level Partycommittees, Party organisations, agencies, units, and localities.
Meanwhile, Vu Mi Ho, Secretary of theParty cell in Then Van hamlet of Lung Cu commune, held that since members ofthe Party Central Committee are those winning high prestige and trust frompeople, to avoid shortcomings, they must do as they say, lead a good moralexample, seriously adhere to the Party’s guidelines and the State’s policiesand laws, order cadres and Party members to disseminate the Party’s guidelinesto the public, and give detailed instructions.
He also underlined the need for each member of the Party Central Committee toproactively make self-improvement, improve their knowledge about various fields,actively perform their tasks, and conduct criticism and self-criticism so as todeserve their role as a “truly staunch servant of the people“./.
VNA
