Vietnam Signals Leadership Shift as Premier's Prospects Fade
- 8 years ago
Vietnam’s Communist Party leaders have nominated General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong to another term, a setback for rival candidate Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung as the party plots the country’s political course for the next five years.
Current Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc meanwhile has been nominated by the party’s central committee to be the next prime minister, the state-controlled VietnamNet news website reported Sunday, citing Vu Trong Kim, vice chairman of the central committee of Vietnam’s Fatherland Front.
The nominations show the level of behind-closed-doors jostling among factions and personalities within the one-party system and signals a possible move away from economic reforms pursued by Dung.
“Dung was so ambitious, so aggressive,” Alexander Vuving, a security analyst at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Hawaii, said by phone.
“He made almost everyone his enemy.”
Current Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc meanwhile has been nominated by the party’s central committee to be the next prime minister, the state-controlled VietnamNet news website reported Sunday, citing Vu Trong Kim, vice chairman of the central committee of Vietnam’s Fatherland Front.
The nominations show the level of behind-closed-doors jostling among factions and personalities within the one-party system and signals a possible move away from economic reforms pursued by Dung.
“Dung was so ambitious, so aggressive,” Alexander Vuving, a security analyst at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Hawaii, said by phone.
“He made almost everyone his enemy.”