Hanoi (VNA) – The National Assembly (NA)Standing Committee on April 2 presented to the NA a proposal on relieving PartyGeneral Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong from the post of StatePresident.

Legislators attending the 11th session ofthe 14th National Assembly then discussed the proposal in groups.

In the afternoon, the NA StandingCommittee will report the outcome of the group discussions as well as theexplanation and acquisition of NA deputies’ opinions on relieving the StatePresident.

The lawmakers will cast secretballots to relieve the State President.

After the voting results areannounced, the NA will debate and vote on a resolution on relieving the StatePresident.

The NA Standing Committee will present a nominationlist to the NA to elect the State President. The NA deputies will discuss ingroups the candidacy for the State President.

Party General Secretary and State President NguyenPhu Trong was born on April 14, 1944 in Dong Hoi commune in Hanoi’s Dong Anhdistrict.

He has worked as General Secretary of the PartyCentral Committee in the 11th, 12th and 13th tenures. He is a member of the Political Bureau in the 8th, 9th,10th, 11th, 12th and 13th tenures;member of the Politburo’s Standing Board from August 1999 to April 2001; memberof the Party Central Committee in the 7th (from January 1994), 8th,9th, 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th tenures.

He has served as State President since October 2018.He was Chairman of the 11th and 12th-tenure National Assembly.He is Secretary of the Central Military Commission, Head of the CentralSteering Committee on Corruption Prevention and Control, and deputy to theNational Assembly in the 11th, 12th, 13th and14th tenures./.