Phạm Minh Chính

Phạm Minh Chính (born 10 December 1958) is a Vietnamese politician and public security general.

He is the current Prime Minister of Vietnam, the third highest ranking after General Secretary of the Communist Party and the President of Vietnam.

Phạm Minh Chính was born on 10 December 1958, in the commune of Hoa Lộc, Hậu Lộc district, Thanh Hóa province, North Vietnam, in a family of eight siblings.

His father was a local cadre and civil servant, and his mother was a farmer.

In 1963, he followed his family to build a New Economic Zone in the town of Phong Sơn, Cẩm Thủy, Thanh Hóa.

As a child, he attended Cẩm Thủy High School.

After graduating from high school in 1975, he studied at Hanoi University of Foreign Studies (now Hanoi University).

In 1976, he was sent to the Socialist Republic of Romania to study at Technical University of Civil Engineering of Bucharest.

He studied Romanian and majored in Civil Engineering.

In January 1985, Phạm Minh Chính became an Intelligence officer within the Department of Intelligence within the Ministry of Public Security.

Among other roles, he served as an intelligence officer in the Department of Europe and America within the Department of Intelligence.

Phạm Minh Chính was admitted to the Communist Party of Vietnam on December 25, 1986, and became an official member on December 25, 1987.

He also attended courses at Hồ Chí Minh National Academy of Politics, receiving an Advanced Degree in Political Theory.

In March 1991, Phạm Minh Chính became an officer of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, working at the Vietnamese Embassy in Romania.

In November 1994, he returned to the Ministry of Public Security, becoming the Deputy Head of the Department of Europe.

Between May 1999 and August 2010, he served as the Deputy Director of several departments.

In 2000, he successfully defended his Doctor of Law thesis, becoming a Doctor of Law.

On March 9, 2010, he was conferred the academic title of Associate Professor in Law.

In August 2010, he became a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam at the 11th Party Congress.

He also served as the Party Secretary (Governor) of Quảng Ninh province (2011–2015), Deputy Minister of Public Security (2010–2011), Head of the MPS General Department of Logistics and Technology (2010) and Deputy Head of the MPS General Department of Intelligence (2006–2009).

He holds a Bachelor of Civil Engineering, a Doctor of Law, and an Advanced Degree in Political Theory.

Chính is also an Associate Professor of National Security Studies.

Foreign media suggested before and during the congress that Pham Minh Chinh would be the most likely new Prime Minister of Vietnam after the 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam.

On 5 April 2021, he was elected as Prime Minister of Vietnam at the 11th working session of the 14th National Assembly.

On 26 July 2021, at the first session of the 15th National Assembly, he was elected to hold the position of Prime minister of Vietnam term 2021-2026 with a rate of 96.99% (484/484 delegates present voted in favor, the total number of XV National Assembly delegates is 499 delegates).

On the afternoon of 28 July 2021, at the first session of the 15th National Assembly, with a total of 470/470 votes in favor, reaching 94.19% of the total number of delegates, the National Assembly passed Resolution approved him to concurrently hold the position of Vice Chairman of the Vietnam National Defense and Security Council.

Faced with the increasingly complicated epidemic situation in Ho Chi Minh City, Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính requested the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of National Defense, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Health and a number of localities with experience to The anti-epidemic experiment continued to support and prioritize the aid of warlike forces for Ho Chi Minh City during the online meeting on the morning of July 4, 2021.

In the face of the situation that Ho Chi Minh City recorded more than 13,000 infections and during the period of social distancing within 15 days when implementing Directive 16 from July 9, 2021, Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính directed to prioritize 25% national vaccine for the city.

HCM City to strive to inject 2 million doses for city people by the end of July 2021.

Facing the increasingly complicated situation of the COVID-19 pandemic in Vietnam, Vietnam needed more than 150 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine to vaccinate about 75 million people, with total funding needs estimated at more than 25 thousand billion.

However, the Vietnamese economy faced many difficulties, the need for funding for the purchase of vaccines is very large and the state budget is limited.

Facing that situation, Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính signed and promulgated Resolution 53/NQ-CP approving the establishment of a COVID-19 vaccine fund on May 27, 2021.

Faced with the increasingly complicated epidemic situation in Ho Chi Minh City, Phạm Minh Chính requested the Ministry of Public Security, Ministry of National Defense, Ministry of Transport, Ministry of Health and a number of localities to have more experience.

The anti-epidemic experience continues to support and prioritize the provision of friendly forces to Ho Chi Minh City in an online meeting on the morning of 4 July 2021.

He was re-elected at the 12th party congress in February 2015.

A member of the Politburo of the Communist Party since 2016, Chính is also the Vice Chairman of the National Defense and Security Council of Vietnam.

He is a Member of the National Assembly of Vietnam and a Lieutenant General of the People's Public Security Forces.

Prior to his premiership, Chính was the Head of the Party's Central Organizing Commission, Head of the Committee of Internal Political Protection and a former Member of the Secretariat of the Communist Party (2016–2021).

In February 2016, he became a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of Vietnam.

In early 2021, the 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam took place.