Vietnam Police Chief Tran Dai Quang sworn in as President

Vietnam's National Assembly on 2 April 2016 swore in Tran Dai Quang, Minister of Public Security, as the 9th President of the nation.
•    Among the 481 valid votes, 452 out of the total 494 members of the unicameral house, elected Quang, as the president.
•    A resolution approving Quang's presidency was also backed 93.12 per cent of the NA deputies at the plenary session.
•    Truong Tan Sang was the 8th President of Vietnam.
•    Before being elected as the President of Vietnam, Quang served as Minister of Public Security from 2011 to 2016.
•    He is a member of the 12th Politburo of the Communist Party of Vietnam, in which he is ranked second, after General Secretary NguyễnPhúTrọng.
•    He attended the People's Police School in 1972. From 1972 to 1975, he studied at the School of Foreign Languages Department of Cultural Affairs (now the Ministry of Public Security).