Comrade Pham Minh Chinh holds the position of Prime Minister

New Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and National Assembly deputies in the hallway of the National Assembly. Photo: EVN

On the afternoon of April 5, after the National Assembly Standing Committee reported to the National Assembly the results of the discussion at the Delegation on the expected personnel to elect the Prime Minister, the delegates approved the list and conducted a secret ballot to elect a replacement for comrade Nguyen Xuan Phuc - who was dismissed from the position of Prime Minister and elected as President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

The results of the vote just announced show that Comrade Pham Minh Chinh - Politburo member, Head of the Central Organizing Committee has been elected by the National Assembly to hold the position of Prime Minister. The resolution on the election of the position has also been passed by the National Assembly with 462/466 delegates present in favor (accounting for 96.25% of the total number of National Assembly delegates).

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh was born in 1958. Hometown: Hoa Loc Commune, Hau Loc District, Thanh Hoa Province. Member of the 12th and 13th Politburo; Secretary of the 12th Party Central Committee; Member of the 11th, 12th and 13th Party Central Committee; Delegate of the 14th National Assembly.

Before being elected by the National Assembly to hold the position of Prime Minister, comrade Pham Minh Chinh held the following positions: Head of the Central Organizing Committee, Deputy Head of the Central Organizing Committee, Secretary of the Quang Ninh Provincial Party Committee, Deputy Minister of Public Security, Director General of the General Department of Logistics and Technology, Ministry of Public Security...

In the positions he has held, Mr. Pham Minh Chinh has always shown himself to be a person who dares to think, dares to do, innovates, acts decisively and leaves many important marks./.