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HANOI, (APP/AFP): Lawmakers in communist Vietnam
approved a top police general for the role of president Saturday,
making the head of a controversial domestic security force one of the country’s most high profile politicians.
Tran Dai Quang won 91.5 percent of the votes during a ballot at the
rubber stamp parliament early Saturday, having been nominated by party officials for the largely ceremonial role during the five-yearly Communist Party Congress in January.
Vietnam is in the midst of a leadership handover, with communist
leader Nguyen Phu Trong reelected in January as party secretary general in a victory for the party’s old guard.