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 proposed 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 count have just been announced, showing 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 was also 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 Politburo, 12th and 13th tenures; Secretary of the Party Central Committee, 12th tenure; Member of the Party Central Committee, 11th, 12th and 13th tenure; Delegate to 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 Engineering, 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./.