HANOI: 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.
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