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Members of the central committee of the Vietnamese Communist Party (illustration image) REUTERS / Kham

A former minister in charge of information was sentenced to life imprisonment and a senior party leader was arrested this weekend in connection with an anti-corruption case. But for some observers, behind the fight against corruption also hides an internal power struggle.

While the former minister in charge of information was sentenced to life imprisonment for corruption on Saturday, the police arrested a senior Hanoi party leader, former director of the bureau of investment of the city, in the framework of an anti-corruption investigation launched a few months ago and linked to the telecommunications company Nhât Cuong.

According to Vo Van Tao, a journalist in Vietnam, this arrest is not only linked to the ongoing anti-corruption campaign, it is also an illustration of the internal struggle between certain factions of the party.

" If this affair broke out, it is because we are aware that there are several competitors for the post of deputy minister of the Ministry of Police, including the current mayor of Hanoi. And as they are fighting for power, they are certainly hiding documents from the press to harm their adversaries. Because, it is often said that there is an internal war between the factions of the regime. "

The Vietnamese journalist believes that " the president of Vietnam, who is also the party's secretary general, really thinks that corruption is leading the party to fall ." But " the problem is that if there are factions, it is not necessarily informed, he analyzes. For him, if there is corruption, the culprits must be punished, as in the case of the trial of the former minister sentenced to life imprisonment. "

Yet a “ half-fig, half-grape ” trial analyzes Vo Van Tao. " Several officials, among the main, including ex-Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, were not at all concerned. However, in addition to these trials against corruption in Vietnam, a majority of people hope that justice can go to the end, even if those who committed these crimes are the four pillars of the party and the state . ”