Nguyễn Phú Trọng, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam
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Place of Birth: Hanoi, Vietnam
About Nguyễn Phú Trọng
- Nguy?n Phú Tr?ng (born 14 April 1944) is a Vietnamese politician who is the current General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, in office since 19 January 2011, and President of Vietnam, de jure head of state of Vietnam, in office since 23 October 2018.
- He was Chairman of the National Assembly from 2006 to 2011, was elected General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam at the party's 11th National Congress in 2011 and reelected at the 12th National Congress in 2016. As General Secretary, Tr?ng heads the party's Secretariat and is the Secretary of the Central Military Commission in addition to being the de facto head of the Politburo, the highest decision-making body in Vietnam, which currently makes him the most powerful person in Vietnam.In 3 October 2018, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam formally nominated Tr?ng to be the next President of Vietnam to be voted on the next session of the National Assembly where the party holds an overwhelming majority, making him the third person to simultaneously head the party and the state after Ho Chi Minh (in North Vietnam only) and Tru?ng Chinh.
- On 23 October 2018, he was elected as the 9th President of Vietnam in a meeting of the sixth session of the National Assembly.
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