The full list of the 12th Central Party Committee members will be announced in the afternoon session at the on-going 12th National Party Congress in Hanoi’s National Convention Centre. Tomorrow, the new Central Party Committee will convene its first plenary meeting within the framework of the Congress, during which the members will elect the Politburo, General Secretary, Secretariat, and Central Inspection Commission and its chairman.
Earlier on the afternoon of January 25, the Congress held a plenary working session and approved a list of 220 candidates for the official posts and 26 nominees for the alternate posts, as well as withdrawals from the list including the cases of President Truong Tan Sang, National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung and Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.
Speaking on the sidelines of the Congress, Vu Trong Kim – an 11th Party Central Committee member and Vice President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee – said the personnel for the next tenure was thoroughly prepared during the 12th, 13th and 14th meetings of the 11th Party Central Committee.
At the 14th meeting, the 11th Party Central Committee agreed to nominate the incumbent Party General Secretary, Nguyen Phu Trong, to be re-elected to this position in the next tenure.
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