National Assembly (Parliament) Vietnam considered and approved on Thursday the candidacy of a member of the politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party Vo Van Thuong for the post of president of the country, according to the Vietnamese government Internet portal.
After being confirmed in office, the new president of Vietnam took the oath of office in front of members of parliament, the report also says.
The extraordinary session of the National Assembly to approve the candidacy for the post of President began on Thursday at 10:00 and ended at 11:00. On the eve of the extraordinary plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam discussed the issue of nominating a candidate for the presidency and nominated a candidate for approval by the National Assembly, whose name was not disclosed. At the beginning of the meeting of the National Assembly on Thursday, the first Deputy Chairman of the Parliament, Tran Thanh Man, announced that Vo Van Thuong had been nominated as a presidential candidate from the Communist Party of Vietnam.
Fifty—two-year-old Vo Van Thuong is a professional politician and party worker, received a philosophical education at the National University of Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City at the Department of Marxist-Leninist Philosophy, and then graduated from the graduate school of the Ho Chi Minh National Political Academy and defended his thesis in political sciences.
Vo Van Thuong began his political career in the Communist Youth Union of Vietnam, consistently holding senior positions in CSM organizations and student self-government organizations of Ho Chi Minh City. In 2007, he was elected First Secretary of the Communist Youth Union of Vietnam.
In 2011, Vo Van Thuong, by this time a candidate for the Central Committee of the CPV, was admitted to the Central Committee as a full member of this governing body and elected secretary of the party committee of Quang Ngai Province, after which in 2014 he took the post of deputy secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee.
In 2016, the 46-year-old politician at that time became the youngest member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPV and was appointed head of the Department of the Central Committee of the CPV for propaganda and political education and head of the steering committee of the Central Committee of the Party for external information.
In 2021, Vo Van Thuong became a member of the permanent secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam.
Source: RIA NOVOSTI
