Government of Vietnam

In Vietnam the Socialist Republic of Vietnam i.e. SRV is governed through an extremely centralized system. This is dominated by the Vietnamese Communist Party. The abbreviation for the team is VCP i.e. Viet Nam Cong San Dang.

The party practices leadership in all matters as the force operating the system. The government deals state affairs through a structure. This structure parallels the party’s apparatus. But without party direction it can’t work. Party members filled up all important key positions in the government.

Party’s ubiquitous presence usually rules the society. This is evidenced in a network of party cadres at every level of social activity as well. Almost all the citizens are expected to be members of at least one or another of the mass organizations. These are usually led by party cadres. Ultimately all managers and sometimes military officials are responsible to party spokespeople.

In the mid-1980s, the VCP was in a position of experimentation and transition. At this time a number of party leaders, contemporaries of Ho Chi Minh i.e. in the time period of 1890-1969 were stepping down. They were doing it in favor of a younger generation of realists and experts.

The political attributes of the party that had once seemed to personify the traditional Vietnamese spirit seemed to have changed and that too after the fall of the Republic of Vietnam i.e. South Vietnam in 1975. The reunification of Vietnam happened in the year 1976. This ethos or attributes had been at the core of the VCP’s. All these and much more rises to power during the fights for unification and independence.

In 1975 the victory over South Vietnam was possible and most importantly with this incident the popularity of the communist movement stayed tied. It has also become prominent that some of the party’s governing rules did not easily understand to peacetime terms.