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National President Nguyen Xuan Phuc resigns, don’t rush to tout Vietnam’s political reform courage

2023-01-19T04:16:40.838Z


The Standing Committee of the National Assembly of Vietnam issued a notice on January 18 announcing that Vice President Vu Thi Anh Xuan would be the Acting President of the country. Earlier on January 17, Vietnamese official media released heavy news that Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc had


The Standing Committee of the National Assembly of Vietnam issued a notice on January 18 announcing that Vice President Vu Thi Anh Xuan would be the Acting President of the country.

Previously, on January 17, Vietnamese official media released heavy news that Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc had resigned from the post of President of the country because he was responsible for the violations and wrongdoings of many of his officials.

According to Vietnamese officials, there is nothing wrong with Nguyen Xuan Phuc himself, and his resignation is to bear political responsibility.

The reason why this news has attracted attention is that it is not uncommon for Vietnam to have an accountability system, but it is rare for the Politburo Standing Committee to be held accountable.

Even if the Standing Committee is held accountable, it is even rarer for the president who serves on the Standing Committee to resign immediately before his term expires.

Nguyen Xuan Phuc often has a group of young technocrats behind him. They are also "firefighters" in the Vietnamese government and will be involved in certain conflicts of interest. For example, Vice Minister of Education Le Haian, who died in a bizarre fall on October 17, 2019, is one of them. .

(Xinhua News Agency)

The General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the President of Vietnam, the Prime Minister of Vietnam, and the Chairman of the National Assembly of Vietnam are the four chariots under the framework of Vietnam's power.

Although the state president is a symbolic leadership position, Nguyen Xuan Phuc served as deputy prime minister and prime minister before becoming the state president. He has a deep foundation in the Communist Party of Vietnam and the Vietnamese government. He is not a symbolic national leader without status.

Is the resignation of Nguyen Xuan Phuc just as simple as the fact that many Vietnamese officials were exposed to violations during the epidemic?

After the 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam in January 2021, Nguyen Xuan Phuc ranked second in the Communist Party of Vietnam, second only to Nguyen Phu Trong.

Anyone who is familiar with Vietnam's political ecology knows that without the approval of Nguyen Phu Trong, it is difficult to be held accountable in Nguyen Xuan Phuc's position.

Nguyen Xuan Phuc's "retirement" is not so much that Vietnam's political reform has reached the point where the country's president can be held accountable. Core" has the final say.

The current core of the party, government and army in Vietnam is the general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Nguyen Phu Trong.

(AFP)

Nguyen Phu Trong was elected General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam for the third time at the 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam in 2021.

In his third term, Nguyen Phu Trong has become the absolute core of Vietnam's political framework.

Judging from the new four carriages after the election, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, Prime Minister Pham Minh Trung, and National Assembly Chairman Wang Dinh Hue are all from the north, and the latter two are close political allies and staunch supporters of Nguyen Phu Trong.

Only President Nguyen Xuan Phuc came from the southern province of Quang Nam and was single-handedly promoted by former Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.

Nguyen Phu Trong was born in 1944, Pham Minh Trung was born in 1958, Wang Dinh Hui was born in 1957, and Nguyen Xuan Phuc was born in 1954.

In terms of age and seniority, among the four chariots, Nguyen Phu Trong and Nguyen Xuan Phuc are the real power holders.

Pham Minh Trong and Wang Dinh Hue are new successors to power promoted by Nguyen Phu Trong.

It is impossible for Nguyen Phu Trong to be re-elected as general secretary indefinitely, and the third term may be the last.

Starting in 2021, Nguyen Phu Trong's most important task is to plan for the future.

For a long time, in Vietnam's political structure, it has been customary for the general secretary to come from the north and the prime minister to come from the south.

However, with the reform and opening up, the southern faction has made outstanding contributions to economic development, and has continuously expanded the authority of the prime minister, leading to increasingly fierce political games between the north and the south.

When Nguyen Tan Dung was the prime minister, there was a call for reform in the Vietnamese party requiring the prime minister to serve as the general secretary, which shows that the excessively inflated government power has begun to attempt to erode the party's power.

On April 6, 2016, in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, Nguyen Tan Dung (left) voted at the National Assembly meeting.

The eleventh meeting of the Thirteenth National Assembly of Vietnam held a plenary meeting in the capital Hanoi on the afternoon of the 6th, and voted to remove Nguyen Tan Dung from the post of prime minister.

(Xinhua News Agency)

Nguyen Phu Trong defeated the challenge of the then Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung at the 12th Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam and was re-elected as General Secretary. Nguyen Tan Dung was forced to retire.

At the 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the successor Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc promoted by Nguyen Tan Dung was transferred to be the President of the country, and the person promoted by Nguyen Phu Trong took over as Prime Minister. This was actually a victory for Nguyen Phu Trong, but it was not a big victory.

As the president of the country who has served as deputy prime minister and prime minister, Nguyen Xuan Phuc is not an idler.

If Nguyen Phu Trong has an accident, Nguyen Xuan Phuc can take over the highest power almost effortlessly.

The violations and corruption that occurred during the epidemic are just an opportunity to pull Nguyen Xuan Phuc down.

No matter who the successor of the state president is, in the new Politburo of the Viet Cong, it is unlikely that its ranking will climb to the top four in a short time.

So far, the power imbalance of the four carriages caused by the excessive power of the prime minister has been temporarily corrected.

Nguyen Phu Trong also has more room to plan the future.

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Source: hk1

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