What challenges await Mr. Nguyen Van So in Ho Chi Minh City?

Mr. Nguyen Van Nen, Head of the Central Office of the Communist Party of Vietnam has just been nominated as a candidate for City Party Secretary. Ho Chi Minh replaced Mr. Nguyen Thien Nhan, just after the closing of the XIII Central Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam.

From Saigon on 12/10/2020, lawyer Tran Quoc Thuan, former permanent vice president of the Vietnam National Assembly Office, made some comments to BBC News Vietnamese.

“By monitoring the preparation for the 13th party congress, especially over time and recent central conferences, I see that progress is slightly different from the previous period through a number of characteristics.

“Specifically, many people from the Central sent home and said that they would stand in the elections, but almost appointed to be secretary of this province or city, so far there are also a dozen such towns.

“With Ho Chi Minh City, the fact that Mr. Nguyen Van has to be sent to this city is also included in the allocation of that force.

“Regarding this arrangement, it is expected, in addition to the practice of before, important places like TP. Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi or various other provinces and cities, including police and army, if it is a major area or area, the Politburo will designate it.

“So the fact that Mr. should go back to Ho Chi Minh City is also part of the same general plan, because in this city today, someone who has the ability to stand for election to be secretary and will be a member of the Politburo. . Perhaps there is no character, so Mr. Should be assigned to, according to the disposition of the leaders at the central level, the Politburo level has considered and decided so. “

When asked what Saigon officials, party members and people think of Nguyen Van Nen, who was ‘appointed’ to assume the presidency of Party secretary from Mr. Nguyen Thien Nhan, lawyer Tran Quoc Thuan said:

“What the lord should come here has been seen and rumored for a long time. In the past, Mr. Dinh La Thang was sent back to the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee by Mr. Dinh La Thang. After that, Mr. Thang was sent away and later sent to prison.

“As for Mr. So, he is probably a more ‘brilliant’ character, he has no scandal, he may stay here, Mr. So is from Tay Ninh.

“However, there is a detail that when he came here to sit as secretary of the Thanh Committee, today there is also Mr. Tran Luu Quang, who is also from Tay Ninh. Quang was reinstated as permanent undersecretary, so it was said that he did not understand why, or by chance, people said “Tay Ninh” about the leadership of the city party committee, but Tay Ninh. it is a province both lowland and mountainous, different from the city. Ho Chi Minh. That is also a comment among the people.

“But it is a fact that Ho Chi Minh City is now tired of the confusion with the city leaders, some are disciplined, others imprisoned, even permanently. The People’s Committee, then in the leadership of the Thanh Committee, the standing committee of the Thanh Committee was also disciplined.

“For this reason, the characters in situ that are developed today are almost non-existent. Therefore, the fact that Mr. Nguyen Van needs to be returned, people also accept it and accept it quite high, there is not much controversy. “

Before Mr. Nguyen Van Nen’s question, if you are sitting in the chairmanship of the Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee and serving a full term, what major challenges could you face? Attorney Thuan replied:

“Ho Chi Minh City is the largest city in Vietnam, it is also a special city, so the Politburo met previously and issued many resolutions about the city, stating that the city is the economic center, the locomotive. Economy, then the commercial and financial center of the country, this is the country’s largest contributor to the central budget, the national budget.

“Indeed, a third of the central budget comes from the source of this city and it is also the most populated city in the country, with the diversity of sectors, economic fields, the most dynamic and creative. But it is also very complicated on this scale.

“On the other hand, many leaders of this city have been assigned to the Central Government to hold positions such as Prime Minister, such as Vo Van Kiet, then Phan Van Khai, including Secretary General. It can be said that the big city has trained such leaders and administrators, so the work of the new Secretary in this city must also meet expectations.

“However, Mr. Nguyen Van Nen spent a lot of time in Central, he used to be Head of the Government Office and now he is Head of the Party Central Office, before that, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, you probably know He has learned a lot and learned a lot, so I don’t think he was surprised when he returned to town.

“I think the big challenge that awaits Mr. So right now is the Thu Thiem case, how to fully and rationally solve the Thu Thiem case, now there is more the establishment of the Thu Duc city and the requirements. in a smart city for Ho Chi Minh City, in addition to ensuring people’s lives and security order, especially continue to contribute to the central budget in addition to many objective issues. mind, other expectations, including previous troubleshooting, then that’s really heavy, not simple.

“But I see that the Lord must be a person who has a humble statement, can listen, I hope that the complicated cases and the events of the past will gradually be overcome.”

On this occasion, lawyer Tran Quoc Thuan commented on the consequences and issues of the previous mandates of the leaders of the city committee, the People’s Committee of the City, as well as how to handle the cases. responsible people, causing consequences.

“Now looking back, looking back and looking at it more generally, it is clear that among the main leaders of the city, within the party, which is understood as the Standing Committee level, the standing level of the Popular Committee, The level of Vice President of the Popular Committee … has many people who have been disciplined.

“The slightest discipline is the warning, and the highest discipline is imprisonment, the two vice presidents have already been imprisoned, tried, not knowing who else will be tried here, and the Party Secretary, a Politburo Member during those turbulent terms the city was also removed from the post it had withdrawn from the eleventh term.

“It was said a lot that in the leadership group he was disciplined and then imprisoned like that, but the highest person who ran the city at that time, but only being disciplined like that, was not satisfactory for irregularities. its fruit and its deputy directors, its subordinates, who had shattered almost the entire city, leaving dire consequences for the apparatus, for many people. Many high-ranking city officials were also involved, committing such mistakes.

“Such management is not strict, people have not yet given up, public opinion is very tumultuous, there are also many people who raise the issue of being dismissed, it must be more profound, because the leader of that Party Committee holds up to two Political Ministerial Committee classes, the two classes was Secretary of the City Party Committee, and before that he was also Chairman of the City People’s Committee.

“He was also the man who participated in the creation of that apparatus, that cast of paintings, for that to happen to himself and to others, that responsibility would have to be considered and it should be dealt with. after all those responsibilities they are more satisfying in that sense.

“But from the point of view of the terrain, from which, from the leader of this city in the opposite direction, there may be many leaders above who have or have had so many errors, some people ask the question is there is a cover, there is a back I think maybe here in the immediate future, people will limit discipline to the line of Politburo members, former Politburo members, although recently, the incident happened to you. Dinh La Thang can also be considered special.

“After the recent conferences, people also see that there are a lot of people with scandals about something, that they still show up and sit at events and still see ‘happy laughs’, so people think that is reasonable. Do people continue like this to maintain balance and stability for the 13th Congress? “

We invite you to hear from Attorney Tran Quoc Thuan in the next article, where he comments more on Conference 13 and the work of the staff, and some current events ahead of the 13th VCP Congress.