75 years of Vietnam National Day and the health of the political system

Vietnam has just celebrated the 75th anniversary of the National Day, September 2, 1945 – 2020 with the media of this country giving various messages, emphasizing political stability.

There is an opinion on the lesson of “immutable immutability”, fundamental changes in institutions and a stable socialism are not needed to develop and ensure that the regime remains “strong”.

Other newspapers emphasize “solidarity and national interests, national interests first.”

At the same time, according to some observers, the political system led by the Communist Party of Vietnam has faced the challenge of the question of the old “stable” institutional model outside but inside a crisis.

BBC News Vietnamese noted the views of four commentators from Vietnam and abroad:

Dr. Pham Quy Tho – Institute of Public Policy, Hanoi:

The typical regime in China and Vietnam actually has a very resilient vitality, but the very simple reason is that it maintains a totalitarianism, which is often repressive and violent, resulting in people being very afraid to comply. Second, it is also flexible, after thirty years of innovation, it always applies the policies known as ‘wrong – right’, that is, if you see a mistake, you can correct it and adapt to the situation every time it occurs. cornered, for example, by starvation or when there are urgent situations.

Historian Le Van Sinh – National University of Hanoi:

Only after 75 years of existence, the current Vietnamese regime has fallen into a state of instability. When evaluating the “health” of the regime, some people in the Party and State leaders realize that the regime has systematic errors. It was a metaphor, rather than showing that long-delayed political reform led to this situation.

The market economy system cannot be governed by the Soviet political system. Vietnam has maintained this insufficiency since the 1986 economic reform and the instability of the social system since then, which has led to political and diplomatic instability as we see it.

Writer Vo Thi Hao – political refugee in Berlin, Germany:

I would like to use an image to say that the current regime adequately represents the health of an elderly man under the age of 80 who wears a Chinese suit, wears Western shoes, has dual Vietnamese nationality and a foreign nationality (such as Cyprus). so if there is a variable, it is ready to escape quickly, leaving all consequences behind.

The regime, after 75 years of National Day, now carries many incurable diseases but refuses all treatment, on the contrary, it is willing to take a knife and a gun to persecute and imprison doctors who give diagnostic results and medicines to save lives. this institution.

Mr. Tran Tien Duc, Former Managing Director, Hanoi:

Celebrating the day of independence, in my opinion, this regime remains stable, nothing threatens the survival of the regime, although it faces many difficulties and challenges, both internally and foreigners.

In terms of internal affairs, the biggest challenge is that the political institution has not yet been renewed for economic innovation, not in line with the trend of the time, but in economic reform, Vietnam has become an economy. market economy since 1986. Figuratively speaking, the current institutional shelter is too narrow for a developing and developing market economy.

In foreign affairs, Vietnam stands alongside a giant neighbor that is economically and militarily strong, and has high ambitions for power and territory, always without tricks to sabotage or cause trouble. , and there are many acts of violation of sovereignty over the country of Vietnam.

Dr. Mai Thanh Son – Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences:

In my opinion, this regimen is at the end of the natural cycle “birth – old – sick – death”. After all, the health of an institution is no different than human health. The Soviet Union and the socialist countries of Eastern Europe are vivid examples. A large number of Latin American countries also fell into that category. The history of Vietnam today has to do with internal and external affairs. An old body will produce many diseases.

The outstanding advantage of this regime was to free the people from the yoke of French rule and to end the division between the south and the north. But that is over. Today, the Vietnamese social regime faces a great challenge of the time, namely, dictatorship, government of the party or republic, democracy and freedom. President Ho Chi Minh said the general idea: if the country is independent and the people don’t have freedom, then independence means nothing. Consequently, the main flaw that reveals the nature of the current Vietnamese regime is dictatorial, totalitarian.

Writer Vo Thi Hao: I believe that the current regime is capable of confronting and eliminating the opposites to take absolute power, and knowing how to turn the system of power into a system of making money for power to anchored loyal slaves. The Communist Party and the individuals in the political system, originally a separate power from the economy, have become increasingly corrupt, and the group benefits that flow from power still bear the name of socialist.

At first, the people under the regime, despite being very poor and during the war, still received free education and medical care, but later, the Communist Party and the state increasingly refused or reduced the responsibility of managing the welfare and taxes to take care of people’s social security, although people have to fight, many people fall into poverty, rich and poor are too far apart.

Researcher Mai Thanh Son:

I spent a long time trying to understand the meaning of the six words of the national motto “independence – freedom – happiness”. And I see that those are really implausible goals for me and my fellow citizens.

The country is unified in terms of geography and national territory, but what does it mean when people’s hearts are scattered, after 45 years of great nationality it has not been healed? After 75 years of National Day, looking back at the lost territorial waters, the resources formerly known as the “forest of gold and silver”, on scientific and technological achievements, on a national brand is still somewhere “blind headline “(word of the poet Xuan Sach), try to ask which of us can point to legitimate pride?

Currently, the country is getting poorer every day with its resources, every hour it thinks about a course for sustainable economic development, and “firewood” is found everywhere. I don’t think that is the preeminence of the regime.