Warning over plots to seize power
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POLITICAL corruption is the worst form of corruption and China should step up vigilance against plots to grab power, says Wang Qishan, the country’s former top graft-buster.
Wang stepped down from leadership for retirement last month at the end of the Party’s national congress.
As head of the Party’s anti-corruption watchdog for the past five years, he spearheaded President Xi Jinping’s battle against graft, overseeing the jailing of dozens of former top officials, including domestic security chief Zhou Yongkang.
Writing in the People’s Daily newspaper, Wang said the fight against corruption went beyond battling the pilfering of assets or hedonism and was a political battle.
“Political corruption is the biggest corruption,” Wang wrote in comments drawn from a collection of essays released after the Party congress.
Aspects of political corruption include the formation of special interest groups to try to seize power, and the organization of activities outside Party parameters, aimed at breaking Party unity, Wang wrote.
“There are many new historical special characteristics to carrying on this great fight, the most important of which are to ... prevent them from seizing political power and changing the Party’s basic character,” he added.
Wang linked some of the most notorious cases to political crimes, mentioning not only Zhou but also the former Party bosses of Chongqing, Bo Xilai and Sun Zhengcai, and two former generals.
In these cases, the Party had “eradicated interest groups which mixed political and economic corruption,” Wang wrote.
Bo was jailed for life in 2013, while Sun is under investigation for corruption.
There can be no challenges to the Party’s power, Wang added.
“North, south, east, west and at the center, the Party leads everything. If there is no forceful and strong leadership by the Party, then the Chinese people are simply a loose plate of sand,” he wrote.
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