{"id":62239,"date":"2026-04-08T14:09:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T14:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=62239"},"modified":"2026-04-08T14:09:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T14:09:42","slug":"the-parliament-of-vietnam-elects-to-lam-as-president-of-the-state-unanimously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/the-parliament-of-vietnam-elects-to-lam-as-president-of-the-state-unanimously\/","title":{"rendered":"The Parliament of Vietnam Elects To Lam as President of the State Unanimously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62240\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/To-Lam-President-Vietnam.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/To-Lam-President-Vietnam.jpg 500w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/To-Lam-President-Vietnam-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/To-Lam-President-Vietnam-218x150.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>ASEAN Monitoring Desk Islamabad<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Vietnam&#8217;s\u00a0Communist Party&#8217;s Secretary General To Lam was unanimously elected by parliament as the country&#8217;s president for a five-year term, making\u00a0him the most powerful Vietnamese leader\u00a0in decades.<\/p>\n<p>After his swearing-in ceremony, Lam told the National Assembly that his top priority was to maintain peace and stability, which were the foundation for fast and sustainable growth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We aim to improve people&#8217;s livelihoods so all can share the benefits of development,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The parliament&#8217;s website said that all 495 deputies present at Tuesday&#8217;s National Assembly session endorsed the Communist Party&#8217;s nomination, while five lawmakers were absent.<\/p>\n<p>To Lam has surprised the country with his quick pace of reforms. In less than two years, as party chief, Lam has swept aside his competitors and transformed the country through an aggressive reform drive \u2014 literally redrawing the map as he combined provinces and slashed bureaucracy.<\/p>\n<p>He transformed the governance model in the country, scraping eight ministries while pushing massive infrastructure projects.<\/p>\n<p>He has now proposed a &#8220;new growth model&#8221; that accelerates decision-making and accelerates the private sector to\u00a0achieve double-digit annual growth\u00a0for the next five years.<\/p>\n<p>Lam has also said he would prioritize\u00a0self-reliance in defense.<\/p>\n<p>He said his top goals were to maintain stability, promote rapid and sustainable \u200cnational development and improve &#8220;all aspects of people&#8217;s lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASEAN Monitoring Desk Islamabad Vietnam&#8217;s\u00a0Communist Party&#8217;s Secretary General To Lam was unanimously elected by parliament as the country&#8217;s president for a five-year term, making\u00a0him the most powerful Vietnamese leader\u00a0in decades. After his swearing-in ceremony, Lam told the National Assembly that his top priority was to maintain peace and stability, which were the foundation for fast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[6713,58,6712,1412],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62242,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62239\/revisions\/62242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}