Deputy PM Vu Duc Dam loses Central Party Committee membership

No further explanation was given regarding the decision.

Also on Friday, deputy prime minister Pham Binh Minh also lost his membership in the Politburo and the 13th Central Party Committee.

The Central Party Committee gave its opinions regarding personnel, so that the Politburo may recommend the National Assembly to approve the title of deputy prime minister for the 2021-2026 term.

The Vietnamese government for the 2021-2026 term has four deputy prime ministers: Pham Binh Minh, Le Minh Khai, Vu Duc Dam and Le Van Thanh. After Friday, the government will have two deputy prime ministers left who are members of the Central Party Committee.

A meeting by the National Assembly is expected to begin on January 5 next year to address certain issues, including those on personnel.

Dam, 59, had spent 10 years working at the Government Office in multiple positions starting 1994. He became the deputy chairman of Bac Ninh Province in 2003, then the deputy minister of the then-Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (now the Ministry of Information and Communications) in 2005.

He became head of the Government Office in 2011, and has been the deputy prime minister since 2013.

Dam is in charge of fields regarding education, training, science and technology, labor, information and communications, culture, tourism, sport, healthcare and population, among others.