Vietnam President Vo Van Thuong has resigned after a little more than a year in office due to “violations” and “shortcomings”, the governing Communist Party has said
Thuong is the second president to resign in two years amid an anticorruption crackdown that has seen several senior politicians fired and top business leaders tried for fraud and corruption.
The Vietnamese Communist Party said in a statement on Wednesday that the resignation had been accepted and that “violations and shortcomings by Vo Van Thuong have left a bad mark on the reputation of the Communist party.”
The government statement did not elaborate on Thuong’s shortcomings, but they are likely linked with the “blazing furnace” anti-bribery campaign aimed at stamping out widespread corruption.
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