Vietnam’s parliament will maintain a rare session on Thursday to debate ‘personnel points,’ based on a letter despatched to legislators and seen by Reuters.
The information company quoted Vietnamese officers and diplomats as saying the resignation of President Vo Van Thuong could also be on the agenda.
Radio Free Asia’s name to Vietnam’s international affairs ministry to substantiate particulars of the assembly went unanswered.
The session comes after Vietnam canceled a state go to by the Dutch King and Queen deliberate for March 19-22, as a result of unspecified “inner circumstances,” based on a assertion from the Dutch Royal Home.
President Thuong has solely been within the job for a 12 months. He was appointed in March, 2023, after a particular assembly of the Nationwide Meeting two months earlier noticed the sudden resignation of then president Nguyen Xuan Phuc who took duty for a sequence of main COVID scandals.
The Vietnamese presidency is basically a ceremonial position.
Translated by RFA Vietnamese. Edited by Mike Firn and Taejun Kang.
