Recently, the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervision Commission released news that Li Chunsheng, Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of the Guangdong Provincial People's Congress and Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group, was suspected of serious violations of discipline and law and voluntarily surrendered to the case. At present, he is subject to discipline review and supervision investigation by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervision Commission. This is the second announcement after the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China to voluntarily surrender to take charge of cadres.
The reporter found that in more than a month since the closing of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervision Commission has released at least 11 members and cadres suspected of serious violations of discipline and laws, including Zhang Xiaopei, the former vice chairman of the CPPCC Jilin Provincial Committee, Dong Lixin, the first level inspector of the General Office of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of Jiangxi Province, and Zhang Guangqing, the former vice mayor of Wuhan City, Hubei Province, voluntarily surrendered. Among them, Zhang Xiaopei, Zhao Changfu, former Secretary of the CPC Yingkou Municipal Committee of Liaoning Province, Ye Libin, former Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Yunnan China Tobacco Industry Co., Ltd., are retired cadres.
In the new era, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has carried out the unprecedented anti-corruption struggle with extraordinary courage and determination. It dare not, cannot, and does not want to corrupt. Under the multi pronged approach of "fighting tigers", "swatting flies", and "hunting foxes", the anti-corruption struggle has won an overwhelming victory and been comprehensively consolidated. Under the influence of high pressure and policy, some party members and cadres who violate disciplines and laws voluntarily surrender to the case and choose to trust and rely on the organization. Data shows that over the past five years, 81000 people have voluntarily surrendered to the discipline inspection and supervision authorities, and 216000 people have voluntarily explained their problems since 2020.
"The voluntary surrender of 'problem cadres' reflects that the fight against corruption has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. The integrated promotion of" dare not corrupt, can not corrupt, do not want to corrupt "has formed a superposition effect, and the comprehensive effectiveness of anti-corruption has been constantly improving." Zhuang Deshui, deputy director of the Research Center for Clean Government Construction of Peking University, believes that behind the voluntary surrender of many people after the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, It is a constant deterrent to maintain the high pressure of anti-corruption, the continuous improvement of relevant systems and norms, as well as the inspiration of the policy of "learning from past mistakes to avoid future ones, curing the sick and saving the people" and the strengthening of ideological education.
Voluntary surrender is to take the initiative to explain problems to the Party organization, which has profound political connotation. It refers to the act of voluntarily surrendering to the discipline inspection and supervision organ when the suspected disciplinary violations, duty violations and duty crimes of the party members, the objects of supervision and the persons involved are not mastered by the discipline inspection and supervision organ, or although mastered, they have not yet been reviewed, investigated, talked, interrogated or questioned by the discipline inspection and supervision organ, or have not yet been taken retention measures. In addition, the persons concerned who voluntarily surrender to their party organizations, units or relevant responsible persons, and to relevant inspection and inspection institutions, public security organs, people's procuratorates, and people's courts are also deemed to have voluntarily surrendered.
"In recent years, voluntary surrender is not uncommon." A number of interviewed discipline inspection and supervision cadres said that voluntary surrender cases have a high degree of social concern and a high requirement for the connection of discipline and law. We must adhere to the principle of seeking truth from facts, combining leniency with severity, and handle them accurately, normatively and safely.
From the legal point of view, the identification and handling of voluntary surrender has sufficient disciplinary and legal basis. Article 17 of the Regulations on Party Discipline Punishment stipulates that those who voluntarily explain their own problems that should be subject to Party discipline punishment may be given a lighter or mitigated punishment. Article 3 of the rules of supervision and discipline enforcement stipulates that we should grasp the policy, combine leniency with severity, and deal leniently with the problems of voluntary surrender and voluntary disclosure. According to Article 31 of the Supervision Law, if an investigated person suspected of committing a duty crime voluntarily surrenders to the case and sincerely repents, the supervisory organ may propose a lenient punishment according to the prescribed procedures.
In July 2019, the General Office of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection issued the Regulations of Discipline Inspection and Supervision Organs on Handling Voluntary Delinquency (for Trial Implementation), which further standardized the identification and handling of voluntary delinquency by discipline inspection and supervision organs in supervision, inspection, review and investigation. Local discipline inspection and supervision authorities have also introduced relevant systems in combination with the actual situation, strictly controlling the procedures, facts and policies, and standardizing the handling of voluntary surrender. For example, Henan, Tibet, Xinjiang and other places have issued relevant documents.
In practice, the discipline inspection and supervision authorities at all levels will give lenient treatment to party members, cadres and public officials who voluntarily surrender to the case and truthfully explain their problems after finding out the problems. For those suspected of committing crimes, they will also propose to the judicial authorities a lighter or mitigated punishment according to the procedure. For example, Liu Chuansheng, the former secretary of the Party Committee of Beijing Normal University, and the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervision Commission made it clear in their notification of party and government disciplinary and administrative sanctions that "Liu Chuansheng can truthfully account for his own problems after voluntarily surrendering to the case, voluntarily hand over all illegal gains from discipline violations, and in accordance with the principle of learning from past mistakes and curing the disease to save the patient, he can be given a lighter punishment". In the end, Liu Chuansheng was expelled from the Party and his retirement benefits were adjusted according to the level six staff.
In addition, at the criminal justice level, those who voluntarily surrender will also be given leniency as appropriate. For example, when the Chengdu Intermediate People's Court of Sichuan Province publicly announced the bribery case of Qin Guangrong, the vice chairman of the Internal Affairs and Justice Committee of the 12th National People's Congress, it pointed out that "Qin Guangrong is the first former provincial and ministerial level leader who surrendered himself to the case issued by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervision Commission. The State Supervision Commission proposed a lenient punishment for Qin Guangrong, and the procuratorial organ recognized the opinion that Qin Guangrong had surrendered voluntarily and could be given a mitigated punishment ", and finally" mitigated the punishment according to law ". Similar cases continue to send out strong signals to guide and urge "problem cadres" to throw away their fluke mentality, lay down their ideological baggage and confess to the organization.
It is worth noting that among those who voluntarily surrender, there are also very few people who attempt to conduct confrontation review and investigation in the name of voluntarily surrendering and pleading guilty and repenting. Judging from the relevant reported cases, some of them did not explain their problems after they surrendered, but only pretended to pose and divert attention; Some "supply the small but cover the big", evading the important while explaining problems, trying to explain some minor problems to muddle through; There is also the "confession before disclosure", which explains the problem and then retracts the confession to confuse the public.
"The discipline inspection and supervision organ should firmly establish the awareness of the rule of law, the awareness of procedure and the awareness of evidence, carefully review and check, comprehensively consider the time of surrender, the nature of the problem, the content of the confession, stability and other factors of the investigated person, analyze and judge its true purpose, not only play a guiding role in curing the sick and saving the people, but also prevent the false surrender to pass the barrier and escape punishment." Xu Li, the fourth level investigator of the second supervision and inspection office of the Commission for Discipline Inspection of Yunnan Province, was interviewed.
The fight against corruption cannot stop for a moment, and we must always blow the bugle. The report of the Twentieth National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) made a clear plan for "resolutely winning the protracted war against corruption". Since November, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervision Commission have reported the information that six middle management cadres have been subject to review and investigation, and the discipline inspection and supervision authorities at all levels have also investigated and dealt with a number of party members and cadres suspected of serious violations of discipline, which fully demonstrates our party's firm determination to fight corruption and punish evil with zero tolerance. For those cadres who have gone astray, the only correct way is to go back, turn back as soon as possible, and take the initiative to explain problems to the organization with loyalty to the Party and reverence for the Party discipline and national laws.
