HANOI: Vietnam’s freshly re-elected top communist party leader has hit out at critics of his country’s one-party system, arguing that collective decision-making is “more democratic” than in nations which hold popular elections.
Trong, a conservative apparatchik, made the comments after being re-elected on Wednesday for a second term as top leader, bringing the five-yearly Communist Party Congress to a close with a resounding victory for the party’s old guard following weeks of infighting.
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