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| Mr Dao Duy Quat. |
VietNamNet Bridge - Talking to VietNamNet about the policy of opening of online dialogues between top Party and State leaders and the people on the online newspaper of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), Vice Chairman of the Central Committee for Ideology and Culture, Editor-in-chief of the CPV online newspaper Dao Duy Quat said that the President and the Prime Minister will be invited to join those dialogues.
Mr Quat said that in some cases, the newspaper will send dispatches to the Central Party Committee’s Secretariat to remind officials who are invited to attend the dialogues.
“It’s time that we don’t provide information in a one-way method. We have to renovate and raise the convincement of ideological tasks to expand socialist democracy,” he emphasized.
What themes that you will choose for the first online dialogue?
They will be the most urgent issues at present, such as the struggle against bureaucracy, corruption and waste or administrative reforms.
We also know another problem - harassment, which occurs at some state agencies that are related to resident registration, house registration, business registration, etc.
Hot recent issues such as petrol prices or even international issues that the people also need to clearly know the points of view of the Party and the State can also be topics for online dialogues. It means that there will have dialogues about politics, economics, social issues, cultural issues, security and national defence, topics that the people are interested in. There are issues that are directly associated to the people’s lives and some others that have impacts on national interests.
Who would be the guests of online dialogues with the people about administrative reforms?
Perhaps the President, the Deputy Prime Minister in charge of administrative reforms or a leader of the Ministry of Home Affairs.
Is it easy to invite high-ranking officials to participate in those dialogues?
I think we can confidently invite them to attend the dialogues. It is important that we inform them early about the dialogues. However, it also depends on whether they have time or not. The Central Party Committee’s Secretariat has recently defined that this is a policy of the Secretariat so we think that the Secretariat will request invited officials to attend the dialogues if we ask.
It means that you will report to the Secretariat?
Not really. There’s no problem if we invite guests and they come immediately. If not, we will report to the Secretariat and the Secretariat will ask the Office of the Central Party Committee to remind them. Thus, the process may go faster.
When will the first dialogue come?
We are trying to have the first dialogue at the end of the ongoing National Assembly session. At first there will be one or two dialogues a month and once a week after that.
Do you think that we will not stop at dialogues? The people not only expect the answers from leaders but also wish them to take action, especially in combating corruption and waste.
A big issue now is implementing at least ten systems of solutions to fight against corruption and waste under the Central Resolution 3. The top solution is strengthening moral education of state officials.
In the fighting against corruption and waste, we will focus on legal construction. We must establish a supervision system from Party organs to government organs, with the participation of the people and the media. Thousands of corruption cases that have been detected recently prove that we still have gaps in system, management mechanisms, and the legal system in asset and financial management. Therefore, the most important thing now is checking gaps to cover them by the amendments and supplements of the legal system.
One of the most basic and important points that the Central Resolution 3 points out is that whenever we find any gap, we will immediately fill it up by new laws to ensure that state employees don’t dare be corrupt and wasteful.
Thus all the systems of education, law, and administration concentrate on solving the problem at its roots, not tackling some cases only.
We think the dialogue channel is to help competent officials to explain, to provide accurate and adequate information to the people to help them have correct awareness. At the same time, it will help key officials at all levels to clearly know the people’s problems.
Why does the CPV online newspaper open this online dialogue channel?
This is one of the big orientations in ideological tasks in the Doi Moi period, a part of the renovation process of the political system in line with the spirit of the 10th National Party Congress in order to further expand socialist democracy.
Through this dialogue channel, Party and State leaders can directly listen to the voice, the aspiration and problems of the people, which can help them quickly amend and supplement the policies and directly instruct to solve urgent problems in society. As the official organ of the CPV, as an online newspaper, we have proposed to open this channel of dialogue.
How will this channel work?
We will announce the time and the topic of each dialogue in our online newspaper. We will invite related officials to the topics to take part in those dialogues.
The topics of dialogues will be collected from our suggestion box, from the Social Opinion Research Centre of the Central Committee for Ideology and Culture, the Government Office, the National Office and of course the media to time meet the needs of the people.
Van Anh | 
