Nguyen Phu Trong
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Nguyen Phu Trong
In this Vietnamese name, the family name is Nguyễn, but is often simplified to Nguyen in English-language text. According to Vietnamese custom, this person should properly be referred to by the given name Trọng.
| Nguyễn Phú Trọng | |
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| General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng | |
| General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 19 January 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Nông Đức Mạnh |
| Secretary of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 19 January 2011 |
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| Deputy | Phùng Quang Thanh |
| Preceded by | Nông Đức Mạnh |
| Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly | |
| In office 26 June 2006 – 23 July 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Nguyễn Văn An |
| Succeeded by | Nguyễn Sinh Hùng |
| Member of the Secretariat | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 19 January 2011 |
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| Member of the Politburo | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office December 1997 |
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| Born | 14 April 1944 Hanoi, Annam, French Indochina |
| Political party | Communist Party of Vietnam |
| Website | Nguyễn Phú Trọng activities page |
Nguyễn Phú Trọng (born 14 April 1944) is the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, elected at the party's 11th National Congress on 19 January 2011.[1] This congress also selected Trọng as the No. 1 member of the Politburo, the party's executive committee.[1] He was chairman of the National Assembly of Vietnam from 2006-11. He is a member of the Troika (rule split among three persons) which governs Vietnam.
Biography
Trọng was born in Đông Hội Commune, Đông Anh District, Hanoi. His official biography gives his family background only as "poor peasant"[2]. He studied philology at Vietnam National University, Hanoi from 1963-67. Trọng officially joined the Communist Party in December 1968. He worked for the Tạp chí Cộng Sản (Communist Review), the theoretical and political agency of the Communist Party of Vietnam (formerly the "Labor Party"), in the periods of 1967-73, 1976–80, and 1983-96. From 1991-96, he served as the editor-in-chief of the Tạp chí Cộng Sản.
He went to the USSR in 1981 to study at the USSR Academy of Social Sciences and got the Kandidat nauk degree in history in 1983. In 1998, Trọng entered in the party section devoted to political work, and he is one of the most prominent Vietnamese political theorician heading, from 2001-06, the CPVCC's Theoretical Council in charge of the Party's theoretical work.
Trọng has been member of the Party's Central Committee since January 1994, member of the Party's Political Bureau since December 1997, and deputy to the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam since May 2002. From January 2000 to June 2006, Trọng was secretary of the Party's Executive Committee of Hanoi, the de facto head of the city authority. On 26 June 2006, Trọng was elected as the Chairman of the National Assembly.[3] During this period he was elected secretary of the Party organization in the Assembly and member of the Council for Defence and Security. In the 11th Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (from 10 January to 19 January 2011) he was elected general secretary of the Central Committee.
References
- ^ a b "Nguyen Phu Trong elected Party Chief", Vietnam+, 19 January 2011.
- ^ Biography of Party General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng, Vietnam+, 19 January 2011
- ^ "Vietnam confirms new leadership", BBC, 27 June 2006.
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