The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (PCV) today accepted the resignation of the country’s president, Nguyen Xuan Phuc, whom it also released from his responsibilities in the Political Bureau following a bribery scandal related to COVID-19.
The information was released at the end of an extraordinary meeting and specified that Xuan Phuc was also released from the presidency of the National Defense and Security Council (2021-2026) in response to a personal request.
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According to the note quoted by the newspaper Viet Nam News Y reviewed for Latin Press (PL), Xuan Phuc “took the political responsibility of the chief, when many officials, including two vice premiers and three ministers, made mistakes and misdemeanors causing very serious consequences.”
Another medium, the newspaper Tuoi Treexplains that Phuc resigned after assuming responsibility for the involvement of senior officials in his cabinet in a bribery scandal on repatriation flights during the COVID-19 pandemic, for which control he achieved notable results.
The resignation, which according to most analysts is a covert dismissal, came after some of his closest collaborators had left the government and the leading bodies of the Party, in this case the former vice prime ministers Pham Minh Binh and Vu Duc Dam.
Nguyen Xuan Phuc, 69, was a member of the Central Committee and Political Bureau of the CPV, as well as a deputy to the National Assembly for several terms.
From 1997 to 2006, he served as Chairman of the People’s Committee of Quang Nam Province, and from there became Head of the Government Office in 2006, and Deputy Prime Minister in 2011, before assuming the post of Prime Minister in 2016. He was Elected President of Vietnam in April 2021.
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Phuc becomes the first president to leave office before the end of his term, which began just two years ago, after serving for five years as prime minister with great popularity for his management of the first year of the covid-19 pandemic. in Vietnam.
After Phuc’s resignation, the position of president of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam will fall, at least temporarily, to the hitherto vice president, Vo Thi Anh Xuan, who must be ratified on Wednesday by the National Assembly.
With information from PL and Efe.
