General Secretary

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The General Secretary is the highest-ranking official in Vietnam’s Communist Party and the country’s most powerful political leader.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
General Secretary canonical 2
Tổng Bí thư 1

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Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf political office
appliesToJurisdiction Viet Nam
surface form: Socialist Republic of Vietnam
appointedBy Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam
National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam
associatedWithGovernmentType one-party socialist republic
belongsToPoliticalParty Communist Party of Vietnam
controls overall direction of party and state
country Viet Nam
surface form: Vietnam
deFactoLeaderOf Viet Nam
surface form: Vietnam
describedAs most powerful political leader in Vietnam
firstHolder Trần Phú
hasInfluenceOn economic strategy of Vietnam
foreign policy of Vietnam
state security policy
hasOfficialStatus top-ranking party official in Vietnam
hasPowerOver key political appointments
party policy direction
strategic decisions of the Communist Party of Vietnam
highestRankIn Communist Party of Vietnam
isAbove Chairman of the National Assembly of Vietnam (in de facto power)
President of Vietnam (in de facto power)
Prime Minister of Vietnam (in de facto power)
isKeyPositionIn Vietnamese political hierarchy
languageOfName Vietnamese
memberOf Politburo of the Communist Party of Vietnam
nativeLabel General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam
surface form: Tổng Bí thư Ban Chấp hành Trung ương Đảng Cộng sản Việt Nam
officeCreatedIn 1930
officeHolderOf Communist Party of Vietnam
officeHoldersAre Vietnamese politicians
oftenHoldsConcurrentRoleWith Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of Vietnam
oversees implementation of party resolutions
partOf Communist Party of Vietnam
politicalIdeology Ho Chi Minh Thought
Marxism–Leninism
positionHeldIn Vietnamese political system
reportsTo Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam
requiresMembershipIn Communist Party of Vietnam
residence Hanoi
roleIn leadership of Communist Party of Vietnam
scopeOfAuthority nationwide
selectionMethod internal party election
shortName General Secretary self-linksurface differs
surface form: Tổng Bí thư
symbolizes supremacy of the Communist Party in Vietnam
termLength 5 years
termRenewable yes
typeOfLeadership single-party leadership
usuallyChairs Politburo of the Communist Party of Vietnam
Secretariat of the Communist Party of Vietnam

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General Secretary shortName General Secretary self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam
this entity surface form: Tổng Bí thư
Nguyen Phu Trong hasHonorificTitle General Secretary