Sorry people

Since the time of Le Loi - Nguyen Trai hundreds of years ago, there has been much talk about RESPECT FOR THE PEOPLE, that for a country to be strong, it needs to take the people as the foundation; that the people are the ones who row the boat and the people are also the ones who capsize the boat. Uncle Ho said: "If you win the hearts of the people, anything can be done; if you go against the people's will, you will run around in all directions."

Following his ideology, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong advised cadres: "If we do things that please the people, the people will trust us and our regime will survive, and our Party will survive. On the contrary, if we do something that goes against the people's will and loses their trust, we will lose everything." Because "The people's strength is like water, the people are the ones who carry the boat and the people are the ones who capsize the boat," we need to trust the people, love the people, and apologize to the people genuinely, without exaggeration, without embellishment or makeup to make the cadres look good. Uncle Ho taught that we need to know how to apologize to the people correctly and, more importantly, we need to know how to correct our mistakes.

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It is not redundant to reiterate the above core points about RESPECT FOR THE PEOPLE at this time. On his personal page, journalist - poet Tran Gia Thai, former General Director of Hanoi Radio - Television, discussed the column "Apologize to the people" of the national television station. The former General Director of the station explained and shared with the column "Apologize to the people" the general idea that: Apologizing to the people means respecting the people, but it needs to be substantial, officials who know how to apologize must know how to correct their mistakes. Previously, during the land reform period and then the correction of mistakes, Uncle Ho publicly apologized to the people, his apology was heartfelt, sincere, and profound, and he requested timely and accurate corrections so that the people would love him.

Nowadays, officials have made many mistakes, so they really need to apologize to the people. Such an apology is truly commendable. Journalist and poet Tran Gia Thai added a suggestion: Perhaps, to balance things out, the radio station should also open a section to apologize to the Party, so that any corrupt, degenerate Party officials and members who violate Party discipline and go against Uncle Ho's teachings have a place to express their remorse and regret. Is that appropriate?

Associate Professor, Dr. Lieutenant General Nguyen Tuan Dung was commissioned by the People's Police Magazine to write an article, both theoretical and imbued with profound practicality, about the "People's Hearts"; that the people's trust (and even loss of trust) is due to a significant number of cadres and party members - including high-ranking party members - deteriorating in their moral and lifestyle, violating Party discipline, and violating the law. To have a "People's Hearts" first and foremost, we must make the people love, admire, and trust - trust their cadres - through actions, not just empty words.

Here is one example among many: A provincial leader, when he was chairman of a large commercial bank, seriously violated Party regulations and State laws, regulations on what Party members are not allowed to do and the responsibility to set an example in declaring and making transparent assets and income; dishonestly explaining the origin and fluctuations of assets; systematic violations, lasting for many years, causing very serious consequences, causing bad public opinion, resentment, affecting the Party's reputation, and losing personal reputation. He had a lot of money, where did that huge amount of money come from? When asked, he was speechless, fumbling more than a chicken with its hair caught in its hair. Looming on the horizon were the dirty coins he had accumulated - the type of primitive capital accumulation that the classic Karl Marx had talked about. How could people trust officials like that? Just apologizing to the people is not enough, and even severe discipline is not enough to satisfy the people; Moreover, the law needs to have sanctions to seize the source of illicit money and return it to the people? And what should the lesson be on managing cadres and the cash flow management mechanism at commercial banks, so that there are no more loopholes for an elephant to pass through the eye of a needle?

In many places, the rapid urbanization process has led to the situation of officials greedily embezzling land from the people; project land, agricultural land turned into residential land, land for building commercial areas, golf courses, resettlement areas... It is clearly wrong, but just stopping at apologizing to the people is not enough. More importantly, the management sanctions are legalized, the sanctions are strict enough to prevent any possible loopholes.

Returning to the story of "Apologizing to the people" that journalist and poet Tran Gia Thai discussed, it is time for the apology to not be a formality, just for show, just to show respect for the people, but to go into substance, handle seriously and effectively, have the necessary deterrent weight, have a mechanism to manage people, manage... the greed of certain corrupt officials, how can that be done?

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