New Chairperson of Central Organization Commission Named

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong hands over the Politburo's decision to new Chairperson of the Party Central Committee’s Organization Commission Truong Thi Mai, Ha Noi, April 8, 2021. Photo: VGP

Mai, who was born on January 23, 1958 in the central province of Quang Binh, served as Chairwoman of the Party Central Committee's Commission for Mass Mobilization since 2016.

She took over the new role from his predecessor Pham Minh Chinh who was elected by the National Assembly on April 5 as the 10^th Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam.

Mai is the first female leader of the Central Organization Commission which is an advisory body to the Party Central Committee and placed under direct management of the Politburo and the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat.

The Commission is in charge of Party and political system building work./.

By Huong Giang