Vietnam’s new Prime Minister to be sworn in on April 7 After the 12th National Party Congress, the incumbent National Assembly Chair, the President and the Prime Minister are no longer the members of the Party Central Committee.   According to information on the sidelines of the 12th National Party Congress, the candidates for these three key positions are Ms. Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, who is the current National Assembly Vice Chair, Mr. Tran Dai Quang – the incumbent Minister of Public Security and Mr. Nguyen Xuan Phuc – the current Deputy Prime Minister, respectively. In the photo (from the left): Deputy PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Minister of Public Security Tran Dai Quang and NA Vice Chair Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan.  It is expected that on the morning of April 7, the new Prime Minister will be sworn in before the National Assembly, immediately after the voting result is announced. On March 21 morning, the final session of the 13th National Assembly began. More than half of this session will be used for personnel tasks, including the election of the new President, new Prime Minister and new Chair of the National Assembly. According to the agenda of the meeting that was approved by the National Assembly at the preparatory meeting on March 21, the discussion of personnel tasks will start on March 30. The NA Standing Committee will ask the NA to dismiss the NA Chair and the Chair of the National Election Council. The dismissal and election of the new personnelwill be conducted in the form of a secret ballot with the same voting committee. The same afternoon, the candidates for the election of the new NA Chair and new Chair of the National Election Council will be submitted to the NA. On March 31, after some procedures, the new NA Chair will take an oath. The similar procedures to dismiss and elect the new President of Vietnam will take place in the afternoon of March 31 and the newly-elected President will be named on April 2. The new President will also take an oath before the National Assembly. On April 6 morning, the President will ask the NA to dismiss the Prime Minister. The procedures to elect the new PM will take place after that. The election result will be announced on the morning of April 7. Later, the Prime Minister will be sworn in as the new NA Chair and the new President. According to information on the sidelines of the 12th National Party Congress, the candidates for these three key positions are Ms. Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, who is the current National Assembly Vice Chair, Mr. Tran Dai Quang – the incumbent Minister of Public Security and Mr. Nguyen Xuan Phuc – the current Deputy Prime Minister, respectively. Besides the NA Chair, the President and the Prime Minister, the National Assembly will also dismiss and elect some Deputy Chairs of the NA, some members of the NA Standing Committee, Chair of the National Ethnic Council, and the chairs of several committees of the NA, and the State Auditor General. The NA will also dismiss and elect the new Vice President, the Chief Judge of the Supreme People's Court, and the Head of the Supreme People's Procuracy. Also at the session, the new Prime Minister will submit to the NA to approve, dismiss and appoint deputy prime ministers, several ministers and other members of the Government. The candidates for these positions have not been not disclosed but the list of candidates for the election of the 14th National Assembly reveals some information. For example, Mr. Vuong Dinh Hue and Truong Hoa Binh - two new Politburo members - are named as the government candidates for the new NA term. The government also introduced many deputy ministers as its candidates, including Tran Tuan Anh (Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade), Mr. Do Van Chien (Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Ethnic Affairs), Mr. Nguyen Xuan Cuong (Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development), Nguyen Chi Dung (Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment), Tran Hong Ha (Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment), Le Thanh Long (Deputy Minister of Justice), Le Vinh Tan (Deputy Minister of Home Affairs), and Nguyen Ngoc Thien (Deputy Minister of Culture - Sports and Tourism). VietNamNet/VNeconomy