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Vietnam has confirmed its top leadership appointments for the coming five years, selecting a career member of the security forces to serve as the country’s next prime minister.
On Monday, Vietnam’s National Assembly voted to make Pham Minh Chinh the new head of government, while shuffling his predecessor Nguyen Xuan Phuc over to the largely ceremonial post of president.
Coming a week after the country’s nearly 500 lawmakers approved Vuong Dinh Hue, an experienced economist, as the next chairman of the National Assembly, the votes completed the quinquennial renewal of Vietnam’s four highest ranking leadership posts.
How Vietnam’s communist party chief earned a surprise third term at this year’s National Congress.
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March 05, 2021
Newly re-elected Vietnamese Communist Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong, center, leaves after a press conference at the closing ceremony of after the Party’s 13th National Congress in Hanoi, Feb. 1, 2021.
Credit: AP Photo/Minh Hoang
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This article is the second in a two-part series. Part 1 is available here.
When Nguyen Phu Trong assumed Vietnam’s presidency following the death of President Tran Dai Quang in September 2018, he became the first Vietnamese leader since the 1980s to hold two of the country’s four senior leadership posts.
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Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong held a phone talk on February 8 with Dmitry Medvedev, Chairman of the United Russia party and Deputy Chair of Russia’s Security Council.
Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong holds a phone talk on February 8 with Dmitry Medvedev, Chairman of the United Russia party and Deputy Chair of Russia’s Security Council (Photo: VNA)
Medvedev congratulated Vietnam on the success of the 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), and Nguyen Phu Trong on re-election as the Party General Secretary.