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Place of Birth: Đức Hòa, Vietnam
About Trương Tấn Sang
- Truong T?n Sang (born January 21, 1949) is a Vietnamese politician, who served as the seventh President of Vietnam from 2011 to 2016.
- He was one of Vietnam's top leaders, alongside prime minister Nguy?n T?n Dung and Party general secretary Nguy?n Phú Tr?ng.
- In July 2011, Truong T?n Sang was elected state president of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam by the National Assembly of Vietnam and nominated by his predecessor Nguy?n Minh Tri?t who retired from office. Truong T?n Sang was also ranked second after General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguy?n Phú Tr?ng on the party's Central Secretariat, a body which directs policy making.
- Sang has been a member of the Central Politburo, the executive committee of the Communist Party, since 1996.
- He was Communist Party secretary for Ho Chi Minh City from 1996 to 2000.
- He was promoted to the national party's number two slot in October 2009.
- There were reports of rivalry between Truong T?n Sang and Prime Minister Nguy?n T?n Dung, and each was backed by a faction within the party.At the 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam in January 2011, Truong T?n Sang was nominated President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and confirmed on 25 July 2011 by the National Assembly.
- On that day, he succeeded Nguy?n Minh Tri?t.
- On the same day he proposed Nguy?n T?n Dung as the new head of government.
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