The National Assembly (NA) adopted a resolution on the election of Pham Minh Chinh as the Prime Minister for the 2016 – 2021 tenure on April 5 afternoon.

Newly-elected Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh delivers the inauguration speech on April 5 afternoon (Photo: VNA)

The resolution won over the support of 462 of the 466 legislators present at the sitting, equivalent to 96.25 percent of the total NA deputies, and took effect immediately after the adoption.

Earlier, legislators elected the new PM by secret ballot.

Pham Minh Chinh, born on December 10, 1958, is a member of the Party Central Committee in the 11^th,  12^th and 13^th tenures, a Politburo member in the 12^th and 13^th tenures, Secretary of the Party Central Committee in the 12^th tenure, Chairman of the Party Central Committee’s Organisation Commission and head of the committee’s sub-committee for internal political protection in the 12^th tenure, an NA deputy in the 14^th tenure, and Chairman of the Viet Nam – Japan Parliamentary Friendship Group of the 14^th NA.

Source: VNA