Survey criticizes ‘lax’ Party officials
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ALMOST three quarters of people who took part in a recent online poll accused some Party officials of being badly organized and lacking discipline.
Four in five respondents said they felt efforts to tackle corruption were thwarted by a culture in which much is said but little is actually done.
The anonymous poll, conducted by the top disciplinary watchdog is the latest initiative in the Party’s fight against corruption.
From June 12-18, 41,119 people completed the survey on the website of the Part’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the watchdog said yesterday.
It featured questions about personal experience of corruption.
These included: “Have Party officials and organizations at you workplace carried out anti-corruption work effectively?” and “Have they stuck to Party rules?”
About 74 percent said officials were plagued by “sloppy organization and lax discipline.”
In the event of witnessing such behavior, more than 13 percent said they would alert the authorities, while 5.4 percent said they would tell the media.
Respondents said that examples of poor leadership included Party officials failing to inform colleagues when they were working off site.
Others said that one of the most deep-rooted causes of the problems was that officials seemed distanced from the Party.
“They have forgotten that they are Party members,” one person wrote.
Nearly 80 percent of the people completing the survey listed “saying more but doing less” as a major obstacle to the anti-graft campaign.
While much is said in the workplace about tackling corruption, many officials are afraid of crossing their bosses. They fear that doing so will be detrimental to their careers, people said.
More than 27 percent thought that the most severe problem was that some Party officials showed loyalty to their bosses, but not to the Party organizations.
They pamper their bosses just to build good relations and get a quick promotion, they said.
The Party itself did not escape criticism, with more than 21 percent of participants bemoaning its management of officials.
More than 21 percent of respondents said they thought Party officials failed to cooperate with each other, which led to infighting and rivalry.
The poll also asked participants whether there has been a “change for the better” following the Party’s recent work and appealed for suggestions for improvements.
More than 69 percent said they felt things have improved.
However, more than 63 percent suggested stepping up efforts to strengthen social monitoring and making it easier for people to report offenses.
The anti-graft campaign has seen dozens of officials lose their jobs, and more than 10,000 officials were investigated in the first three months of the year.
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