02:07, 26/07/2011

Truong Tan Sang elected as Vietnam State President

 Truong Tan Sang was elected as Vietnam State President of the 2011-2016 tenure, at the National Assembly meeting on July 25...

Truong Tan Sang was elected as Vietnam State President of the 2011-2016 tenure, at the National Assembly meeting on July 25.

Newly-elected Vietnam State President Truong Tan Sang.

Sang, 62, Party Politburo member and standing member of the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat, won 97.4 percent of the votes.

The election of the Prime Minister, the Vice President, the Tribunal President of the Supreme People’s Court and the Head of the Supreme People’s Procuracy will be held on July 26.

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