(LĐ online) - The work of preventing and combating corruption is one of the urgent and important tasks of the entire Party, people and army today. With the efforts of the entire political system, the work of preventing and combating corruption in our country has achieved initial results, received the support of the people at home and was highly appreciated by the international community.
However, hostile forces at home and abroad have tried to sabotage, especially through cases involving officials and party members holding high positions in the State apparatus, to distort and spread false arguments to defame and lower the prestige of the Party and State.
Surfing social networks, you will see a lot of distorted information about the anti-corruption work of our Party and State. Hostile forces, in the name of anti-corruption, have put forward very deceitful arguments that: " The Communist Party of Vietnam cannot fight against corruption because the Party is also corrupt and degraded", "Corruption is a chronic disease of the ruling one-party political system", "Because society lacks democracy, it is impossible to fight corruption", and argue that "The Party has launched many anti-corruption campaigns but has not succeeded, the more it is resisted, the more it increases", from which they make subjective and arbitrary judgments: "The Communist Party of Vietnam cannot fight against corruption successfully", and even "advise" our Party that "corruption can only be fought when implementing the institution of "separation of three powers to control power". Recently, they have thoroughly exploited information from the investigation and trial of the case of the former Director of Thu Duc Hospital, the former Chairman of Khanh Hoa Provincial People's Committee and the trial of the Chairman of VEC and his accomplices to attack the private sector. law, defaming officials and party members and equating corruption as the "nature" of the regime.
It can be seen that the above-mentioned distorted, unscientific and practically baseless arguments of hostile forces and political opportunists are aimed at spreading and sowing confusion, causing loss of confidence in the fight against corruption; defaming the socialist regime, diluting its goals, losing the Party's nature, lowering its prestige to the point of denying the Party's leadership and ruling role, thereby negatively affecting cadres and Party members, making them susceptible to "self-evolution" and "self-transformation", causing the country to fall into crisis, and their plot of "peaceful evolution" succeeds.
Corruption is a social phenomenon, a painful evil of all countries and political regimes, including Vietnam. In terms of origin and nature, corruption is the abuse of power, the degeneration of power to seek personal interests of an individual or a group of people, harming the interests of other individuals, organizations and society. The attribution that corruption only exists and is rampant under the socialist regime, in a political regime with a single ruling party is a blatant distortion, speculation and error, because corruption always exists in every social regime with a state, always associated with the state and power.
In any social regime, corruption is always associated with the situation of power being manipulated and corrupted. The power of our State is entrusted by the People, assigned, assigned, and authorized to collectives and individuals to take responsibility. Only those cadres and party members who have positions and power but are degenerate, corrupt, lack revolutionary ethics training and cultivation; whose viewpoints, mettle, and ideological stance are not steadfast and firm; whose fighting spirit is reduced, whose will to organize and discipline is poor; who are tempted by trivial material interests, fall into individualism; who lack close inspection and supervision by the organization and the People, fall into the disease of corruption.
During his lifetime, President Ho Chi Minh attached special importance to preventing and combating embezzlement and corruption in the Party and State. He considered them “dangerous diseases”, “internal invaders”, which not only caused economic damage, but also degraded political ideology, morality, and lifestyle; weakened the Party and State apparatus; and caused loss of trust among the masses. Throughout the process of leading the revolution, our Party always identified preventing and combating corruption and negativity as “a fierce struggle between the good and the bad, the old and the new, between revolutionary ethics of diligence, thrift, integrity, impartiality and impartiality and the enemy of embezzlement, waste, and bureaucracy”, which must be carried out regularly, resolutely, persistently, and persistently, with the aim of building an increasingly clean and strong Party.
It must be affirmed that the fight against corruption and negativity is one of the extremely important tasks and a great political determination of the Party and the State. In recent times, the Communist Party of Vietnam has clearly demonstrated its determination to resolutely fight corruption by proposing very correct and accurate policies and methods to strengthen the work of building and rectifying the Party and the political system, focusing on the fight to prevent and repel corruption among a number of cadres and Party members. This work has been led and directed by the Party to be implemented resolutely, comprehensively, and in depth, with very high political determination, "no forbidden areas, no exceptions"; many serious and complicated corruption cases and cases that have attracted public attention have been handled strictly and in accordance with the law, serving as a warning, deterrent, and tightening discipline and order within the Party and the State apparatus. Corruption has been gradually controlled, prevented, and reduced, achieving many important results, "which have been agreed upon, supported, highly appreciated, and internationally recognized by cadres, party members, and people."
That is undeniable. The General Secretary once affirmed, “We need to resolutely fight against the arguments of hostile and opposing forces that the fight against corruption and the handling of erring cadres and party members is “internal strife” or “factions”. Moreover, strengthening the fight against corruption is also a way for each cadre and party member to have more confidence in the Party and the regime - a party that was not born to become officials and make a fortune, a regime that always takes the prosperity of the nation and the happiness of the people as its goal. That is also a way to clearly affirm the goal of the fight against corruption and negativity for the stability and development of the country, for the future of the nation, is to fight against “internal invaders”, not a fight between “factions” or “internal strife” as distorted and sabotaged by hostile and reactionary forces.
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