From: Michael Hoover <hoov-AT-freenet.tlh.fl.us> Subject: M-I: Communist Party chief blasts corruption (fwd) Date: Sat, 20 Sep 97 11:08:33 18000 Forwarded message: > Subject: Communist Party chief blasts corruption > > Copyright =A9 1997 Agence France-Presse > > HANOI (September 20, 1997 01:09 a.m. EDT) - Vietnam Communist Party > chief Do Muoi opened the National Assembly Saturday with a strong > anti-corruption message following unprecedented unrest in the > countryside blamed by the government on corrupt officials. > > Muoi said corruption threatened the central tenet of socialist > government -- power to the people -- and called for greater supervision > by the Communist Party and the National Assembly over local cadres. > > "The working people are master and the entire political system of the > country is devoted to ... making sure the power belongs to the people," > he told thevdeputies, gathered for a 10-day session devoted to choosing > a new president, prime minster and other top officials. > > "When people violate the democratic rights of voters, they are no longer > qualified to represent the people and they should be dismissed," he > said. > > There was a need for "a new army of public servants, from the central > level to the local level, with good morals," he said, calling for > "clean, strong and transparent public administration." > > The Assembly session was preceded by two weeks of reports in the > official press about unprecedented peasant protests in northern Thai > Binh province and four central provinces. > > Excessive taxation by a myriad of local bodies and the embezzlement of > public funds were blamed for the unrest. About 50 low-level public > servants were sacked in Thai Binh province and the party said higher > level officials were under investigation. -- --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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