Vietnam stays on same policy path with party chief’s re-election

Vietnam Communist party central committee holds a meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam, Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021. Vietnam Communist Party has re-elected Nguyen Phu Trong for another term as the party's General Secretary, the country de-facto top leader. - Vietnam News/ANN

HANOI, Jan 31 (Bloomberg): Vietnam’s Communist Party re-elected Nguyen Phu Trong to a rare third term as general secretary, signaling no major shifts in the nation’s economic or geopolitical direction.

The party’s newly elected central committee also elected 18 members of the Politburo, which in turn will nominate individual candidates to be prime minister, president and chair of the National Assembly. The parliament will vote on the nominees to the top government posts later this year.