General Secretary of the 12th Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee (CPVCC) Nguyen Phu Trong

Vietnamese party chief elected President

October 24, 2018

Nguyen Phu Trong, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee (CPVCC), was elected the country’s President…reports Asian Lite News

General Secretary of the 12th Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee (CPVCC) Nguyen Phu Trong

Trong was elected at the ongoing sixth session of the 14th National Assembly of Vietnam.

He has been a member of the CPVCC’s Political Bureau since 1997 and also served as chairman of the National Assembly from 2006 to 2011.

Trong was elected CPVCC General Secretary in 2011 and re-elected in 2016.

On September 23, two days after former President Tran Dai Quang died, Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh became the Acting President.

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