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The General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Nguyen Phu Trong, for the third time in a row, has been elected to this position, meeting and speaking with the press just after the closing of the XIII Congress on February 1, 2021.
The selection of high-level personnel in the congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam remains a “closed” job that appears to be “pre-negotiated” internally without the participation of the people. Vietnamese observers told BBC News Vietnamese this week.
On February 4, 2021, from Hanoi, Assoc. TS. Hoang Ngoc Giao, Director of the Institute for Policy, Law and Development, told the BBC:
“In Vietnam, in the current political system, the appointment and holding of positions in important positions are not necessarily linked to individual achievements.
“But the selection of personnel in the Party Congress is a closed job that seems planned, agreed, in addition to negotiating with each other in some way.
“As for the assessment of citizens, in recent days, many people want to vote for Mr. Vu Duc Dam as prime minister, but it is not linked to the above.
“Even those who entered the Politburo, I say that the case like Mr. Nguyen Hoa Binh, the Ho Duy Hai case is very big, it affects the judiciary a lot, but it still has the Politburo.”
“This to the public has made it clear that the criteria for evaluating a person’s success or failure are not part of the party’s personnel process for aligning party and state positions.
“This is very specific in Vietnam that people know, but it is the job of the party, the state, it cannot be avoided.”
What is the role of the individual in collectivism and the personal?
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Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and his wife take souvenir photos with US President Donald Trump’s partner and other guests on the sidelines of the G20 economic summit on 07/07/2017 in Hamburg, Germany.
From the Institute of Policy and Development, under the Ministry of Planning and Investment of Vietnam, Assoc. TS. Pham Quy Tho, former president of the Faculty of Public Policy, further commented to the BBC, emphasizing the aspect of the relationship between the individual and collectivism in the mechanism and leadership of the Communist Party in Vietnam today:
“Perhaps by any mechanism some individual is not a hero, because in the collectivism that sustains this complete and absolute party leadership mechanism, an individual cannot be a party of superior interests.
“So it is true that everything has been planned before, in addition, in a context of corruption, then the situation called ‘recession’ then ‘self-transformation’, ‘self-transformation’ is very. That is why people prioritize these criteria over the achievements that people go.
“At one angle, people think that the role of the government in recent times is very active, for example, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc is not only evaluated by people, but also by observers. Foreigners are also very aggressive. .
“So people like Mr. Vu Duc Dam are also one of the active ones and they often appear in very difficult places in the epidemic area.
So they are only individuals in this institution and they must obey, obey the principles of the party, which are also the core of this institution, that is, relying on a collectivism so that people decide on the issue of personnel, not an individual or a group of individuals, “Pham Quy Tho told the BBC panel on Thursday.
“Centralized” and “tinged with dogma”
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Vietnamese Vice Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam (right) with South Korean President Moon Jae-in (center) and his wife Kim Jung-Sook (left) kicks the ball in front of the Vietnam U23 team in Hanoi on March 22, 2018
Also evaluating the Politburo after the XIII Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam, an author from the United States said that the 18 new commissioners on average were “older, heavier in the military, police and less technocratic” than the twelfth grade.
In an article on The Diplomat (February 2, 2021), Mr. Zachary Abuza, a Southeast Asian researcher at the National War College, USA, said that with an average age of 63, this is the “Politburo old and crowded. ” More men than the 12th Politburo.
The Vietnam People’s Army has twice the number of representatives in the most powerful body in Vietnam.
In the twelfth term, only the Minister of National Defense (Ngo Xuan Lich), former Head of the General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People’s Army, had a seat on the Politburo.
Now the army has two generals, General Luong Cuong and General Phan Van Giang.
“The police representatives are fat too,” Abuza said. In addition to the re-election of Public Security Minister To Lam, there are also people from this ministry: Pham Minh Chinh used to be Vice Minister, Nguyen Hoa Binh also worked in the Public Security Ministry before joining the Supreme People’s Prosecutor’s Office. tall.
This author believes that the commissioner members reflect “trends, priorities and concerns” of the ruling party in Vietnam.
TS. Zachary Abuza also pointed to the lack of representativeness of technocrats, including Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam, who led Vietnam’s brilliant stellar campaign against Covid-19.
This shows that regardless of the economic and technical complexity, important decisions will be made by the “centralized” and “dogmatic” ruling group, Abuza said.
Are people interested and surprised by the results of the meeting?
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Many people were not surprised by the final results of the 13th Congress staff, an observer told the BBC.
Returning to the BBC News Vietnamese discussion on Thursday, commenting to the BBC from Paris by independent journalist Tuong An said that although the CPV 13th Congress wanted to ‘keep it a secret’ until the last minute, many people, including Vietnamese in abroad, they did not. seems to be surprised by the personnel results announced by the AGM and she explained why:
“I think with the exception of some journalists, or freelancers, etc … they care, but most of the others do not.
“Why don’t you care? Is that because it’s not a surprise, even before there were reports that these staff would be kept under wraps until the last minute, but actually people already knew before Congress elected. to the staff?”
“It is not surprising, it is like decades ago, as we see the elections in the United States as surprising until the last minute, and in the XIII Congress it was nothing short of a surprise.
“And just as you used words like” agreements “, elections,” negotiations “between them, etc., of course, this is just an agreement to see who will occupy what positions, that’s all.
“And people have nothing to say, people do not have the right to participate in a mechanism that leads themselves, so I remember that Secretary General Nguyen Phu Trong said that the main staff of the Ministry will integrate this new value into operations. international, etc., which means that the cliche is very “good”, but nothing has changed at all.
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A woman is looking at information on a mobile phone at a location in Hanoi on January 31, 2021
“It means that those positions are just internal arrangements, agreements and conflicts of influence, while the people have no voice at all and that is the main thing that is all. All the people who look at Vietnam are interested, which means that all the citizens have to say in the election of the Politburo, or the Central Committee of the Party that directs the … that affects them.
“Mr. Hoang Ngoc Giao said above a phrase that I personally feel very sad, when he said ‘it is party work, it is government work and we have to accept it’, I think it is nothing. Here it is accepted that people should have the voice of the people, the people should have the right to decide on things related to their lives.
“It’s not just a few ‘old men’ and a few party supporters who decide, that’s what foreigners who are interested in Vietnam want; that’s Vietnam instead. Because there is a party, instead of just to have the voice of one party, there must be the voice of many different parties. As in all societies, there is competition, it can lead to new things, benefits for the people, “independent journalist Tuong An told the BBC.
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