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Police general becomes Vietnam's new president
Lawmakers in communist Vietnam approved a top police general for the role of president on 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 ...
Quang, 59 and a career policeman, rose the ranks within the country's Ministry of Public Security.
He worked for forty years as a top security leader in the police force.
Vietnam's Ministry of Public Security is a powerful body with sweeping powers including intelligence gathering and protecting the party from perceived threats, both domestic and overseas.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/police-general-becomes-vietnams-president-051954539.html?nhp=1