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1st LD Writethru: Vietnamese president relieved from duty

Xinhua, March 31, 2016 Adjust font size:

Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang was relieved from duty on Thursday afternoon at the ongoing 11th session of the 13th National Assembly (NA) in Vietnam's capital Hanoi.

Sang was approved to be relieved from the duty of president of Vietnam by the NA with 447 "for" votes out of 473 valid ballots.

A resolution on relieving Sang from the duty of president of Vietnam was later adopted by the NA with 458 "yes" out of 459 participants.

Later in the afternoon, newly-elected NA Chairperson Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan delivered a proposal on the nomination of candidate for the position of Vietnamese president. Tran Dai Quang, member of the 12th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPVCC) and 12th CPVCC's Politburo member, and minister of public security, is the sole nominee to the post.

The election for the new Vietnamese president will be conducted on Saturday through secret ballots.

In late January, Sang was not elected to be among 200 members of the new CPVCC.

At the second session of the 12th CPVCC in early March, Vietnamese party chief Nguyen Phu Trong said the central committee reached high consensus that it is needed to soon replace and re-arrange key leadership positions in order to promptly implement the resolution of the 12th national party congress.

Earlier on Wednesday, Nguyen Sinh Hung was relieved from the duty of NA chairman and chairman of the National Election Council. On Thursday morning, Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan was elected to replace Hung. Endit