Tran Dai Quang elected Vietnam's new President

The National Assembly (NA) of Vietnam on Saturday elected Tran Dai Quang as the country's president in capital Hanoi.

Quang has been elected and sworn in as the president with 452 "yes" votes out of 481 valid ballots at the ongoing 11th session of the 13th NA.

Prior to the election, Quang has been serving as Vietnamese Minister of Public Security from 2011.

A resolution on electing Quang as Vietnamese President was later adopted by the NA.

Earlier on Thursday afternoon, the newly-elected NA Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan delivered a proposal on the nomination of candidate for the position of Vietnamese president.

Tran Dai Quang, member of the 12th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPVCC) and member of the 12th CPVCC Politburo, and Minister of Public Security, was the sole nominee to the post.

After the election, in his sworn-in statement, Quang said "In front of the sacred national flag, the National Assembly and voters nationwide, I, Tran Dai Quang, president of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, swear: To be absolutely loyal to the nation, the people and the Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. I will make efforts and try my best to well fulfill the duty assigned by the party, the state and the people."

On Thursday afternoon, Truong Tan Sang was relieved from duty of Vietnamese President.

In late January, Sang was not elected to be among 200 members of the new CPVCC.

At the second session of the 12th CPVCC in early March, Vietnamese party chief Nguyen Phu Trong said the central committee reached high consensus that it is needed to soon replace and re-arrange key leadership positions in order to promptly implement the resolution of the 12th national party congress. Enditem