File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/marxism-international.9709, message 395


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


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> 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.
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