Danlambao - During his visit to Thailand, Nguyen Phu Trong, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, signed a Vietnam - Thailand joint statement, which includes commitment between the two countries in the areas of political relations; defense and security cooperation; economic, social, cultural, regional and international cooperation.
In the current Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, there is no provision for a general secretary of a party to have responsibility and authority to accomplish this task.
Article 101, Chapter VII of the 1992 Constitution stipulates “The President is the Head of State, acting on behalf of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in domestic and foreign affairs.” The General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, on his trip to receive an honorable doctorate degree from Thammasat University - thanks to the lobby from Thailand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, had sat on the wrong seat that belongs to Mr. Truong Tan Sang, president of Vietnam. Thus, he abused the power of the President and violated the national constitution by signing the Vietnamese-Thai joint statement.
When a Secretary General - the head of a sole party in the country, who always makes himself a self-proclaimed leader and seizes the leadership of the country forever, squats on the Constitution, views the Constitution as a bunch of papers then shall this Constitution be valid as the highest law in the land, with which the State of Vietnam has spent and wasted a lot of tax money in calling the people to give comments and “build”?
Translated by Như Ngọc (Danlambao)
