Vietnam swears in new state president

Vietnam’s lawmaking National Assembly has elected Vo Van Thuong, a standing member of the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat, as the country’s new state president for the 2021-26 tenure. Thuong has been a member of the all-powerful Politburo since January 2016 and a member of the Party Central Committee since January 2011. He was deputy secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee from April 2014 to February 2016. Vietnam’s lawmaking National Assembly has elected Vo Van Thuong, a standing member of the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat, as the country’s new state president for the 2021-26 tenure. He was deputy secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee from April 2014 to February 2016.