Secretariat expels provincial officials from Party for serious violations

HÀ NỘI — Party General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng chaired a meeting of the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat on Tuesday to consider disciplinary measures against incumbent and former officials of Hoà Bình and Hà Nam provinces and Hải Phòng City. They include Nguyễn Đồng, member of the Hoà Bình provincial Party Committee’s Standing Board and head of the provincial Party Committee’s Commission for Information and Education, who used to lead the provincial Party Committee's Commission for Internal Affairs and serve as the standing deputy head of the province's steering committee for corruption and negative phenomena prevention and control. They have also violated the regulations on the things Party members must not do and on the responsibility for setting good examples. Based on the content, nature of their wrongdoings and on the Party’s rules on disciplining violating Party members, the Secretariat decided to expel the four from the Party. It also asked relevant agencies to carry out administrative disciplinary measures for the abovementioned individuals in accordance with the Party’s disciplinary action in a timely manner.