Vuong Dinh Hue, secretary of the Hanoi municipal Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) is the new chairman of the 15th-tenure National Assembly (NA) and the National Election Council.

He was sworn in on March 31 after receiving 100 per cent of the votes from the 473 legislators during the 11th sitting of the 14th-tenure legislature.

Hue, 64, is the 12th parliament chair since the first general election was held in Vietnam in 1946.

With his right hand raised and the left hand on the Constitution of Vietnam, Hue vowed to be “absolutely faithful to the country, to the people, and to the Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam”.

Hue succeeds Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, 66, the first woman elected to hold the top legislator position in the country’s history five years ago, after her term came to an end and a resolution on the official dismissal of Ngan was adopted by the NA on March 30.

Hue was born in the central province of Nghe An and began his career as a lecturer at the Hanoi Finance and Accounting University in the late 70s to mid-80s. He studied abroad at the University of Economics in Bratislava (Slovakia) from 1986-1990, returned as a lecturer and moved up in the ladder until he became the vice director of the Hanoi Finance and Accounting University in 1999.

He has a doctorate degree in economics, knows English, Russian and some Czech and Slovak.

Since being admitted to the CPV Central Committee in 2006, Hue has held various high-ranking positions – State Auditor General (2006-2011), Minister of Finance (2011-2013), Head of the Central Economic Commission (December 2012-April 2016), Deputy Prime Minister in charge of economics (2016-2020), and currently secretary of the CPV’s Hanoi Committee since February last year.

VIET NAM NEWS/ANN