Bouasone, in a recent address to the Lao National Assembly, complained
that corruption and luxury were now rife among government officials in
the one-party communist state, Radio Vientiane said in a broadcast
monitored in Bangkok.
"The time is ripe for us to crack down on corruption and luxury and
every wrong-doer who has violated the law," Bouasone told the
legislative body, which launched its annual session on June 18.
"No one can help us fight corruption," he said. "We must do it ourselves."
The National Assembly is tasked with reviewing the government's
performance over the past year and is to later debate a law on
corruption as graft in the one-party state has become a growing problem.
Laos has been ruled by the Lao People's Revolutionary Party since 1975.
Elections are held every five years, but only candidates from the ruling
communist party and government-approved independents, who were first
allowed to run in 2002, are permitted to contest the polls.
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