(Bloomberg) — Vietnam’s Communist Party has approved the resignation of Politburo member Truong Thi Mai, making her the elite body’s sixth official to resign since 2022 amid mounting corruption investigations.
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The Communist Party’s Central Committee announced Mai’s resignation for violating rules on the conduct of party members and damaging the party’s reputation, according to a statement posted on the government’s website on Thursday. She led the committee’s personnel committee and was a member of the party secretariat.
Her departure follows the resignation of two presidents, the speaker of parliament and two deputy prime ministers, as Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong accelerates a yearslong anti-corruption campaign.
The party committee also nominated unnamed candidates to replace former President Vo Van Thuong, who resigned in March, and former National Assembly Speaker Vuong Dinh Hue, who resigned last month, the statement said.
The Central Committee also approved adding four new members to the Politburo, the party’s top policy-making body. These members include former central bank governor Le Minh Hung, who replaces Mai as head of the commission’s personnel committee.
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The National Assembly will vote on the nominations for president and speaker of parliament, the statement said. According to a separate statement on the government’s website, parliament will begin its summer session on May 20.
Mai, once believed to be a candidate for the presidency of parliament, had served as a member of the party’s central committee since 2006 and a decade later became part of the ultimate decision-making body in Vietnam’s one-party state – the Political Bureau or Politburo.
(Updates with details on new Politburo members in fifth paragraph.)
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