Party Central Committee focuses on personnel work on Dec 17

Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong chaired the plenum.

Pham Minh Chinh, Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, and Chairman of the Party Central Committee's Organisation Commission, delivered the Politburo's proposal on personnel work orientations for the 13th-tenure Politburo and Party Central Committee's Secretariat.

Later, the Party Central Committee cast ballots to nominate some members of the 12th-tenure Politburo, Party Central Committee, and Party Central Committee's Secretariat as candidates for seats in these organs in the 13th term.

The same day, Tran Cam Tu, Secretary of the Party Central Committee and Chairman of the Party Central Committee's Inspection Commission, read the Politburo's proposal on disciplining Nguyen Duc Chung, member of the Party Central Committee, former Vice Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee for 2015-2020, and former Secretary of the Party unit at and former Chairman of the municipal People's Committee for 2016-2020.

The Party Central Committee then considered and decided on the disciplinary measure of expelling Chung from the Party.

(Source: VNA)