The National Assembly (NA) of Vietnam, the country's top
legislature, re-elected Nguyen Minh Triet as state president
Tuesday morning.
Up to 98.78 percent of all NA deputies at the ongoing 1st
session of the 12th NA voted for Triet, member of the Political
Bureau under the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee
(CPVCC) and former Secretary of the Party Committee of southern Ho
Chi Minh City.
After being re-elected, he said "I will share happiness of
everybody, while sharing sorrow and pains of people. I will try my
best to lessen the pains."
On Tuesday morning, he presented the list of people for the NA
to vote for the posts of vice state presidents, prime minister, and
heads of the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's
Procuratorate. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung is expected to be
re-elected on Wednesday.
The NA will approve prime minister's proposal on appointing
deputy prime ministers, ministers and other cabinet members on
August 2. The number of ministries and state agencies equivalent to
ministries are expected to decrease to 22 from current 26.
During the session from July 19 to August 6, NA deputies are
also to center discussions on some other important issues,
including shortening the term of the 12th NA to 4 years from the
current 5 years, and passing a bill on amendment to some articles
of the Anti-Corruption Law.
Triet, born in 1942 in southern Binh Duong province, currently
holds a bachelor degree on mathematics and another on high-level
political theory from the Ho Chi Minh National Political Academy.
He joined the Communist Party of Vietnam in 1965.
Triet, who participated in revolutionary activities in the South
of Vietnam between 1960 and 1970, held the post of secretary of the
Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union in the 1975-1987 period, deputy
secretary and then secretary of the Party Committee of southern
Song Be province from 1988 to 1996.
Triet became deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Ho Chi
Minh City in 1997, and secretary of the committee in 2000. He has
been member of the Political Bureau since 1998.
Between 1998 and 1999, Triet acted as chairman of the CPVCC's
Commission for Mass Mobilization.
(Xinhua News Agency July 24, 2007)
