The president of Vietnam, President Vo Van Thuong has resigned after only one year in office.
According to BBC reports, the government of Vietnam after a meeting with the ruling Communist Party on Wednesday, said that Thuong had broken party rules and had negatively affected its reputation.
Thuong is believed to have resigned barely a year in the job, over his links to unspecified “violations and shortcomings”.
He was appointed last year to replace another president forced to step down over corruption.
In the early hours of Thursday, Vietnam’s parliament, announced the approval of the resignation of President Thuong.
When he was selected last year, Vo Van Thuong was seen as a capable and relatively youthful president, who had the advantage of being a protégé of the powerful party chief Nguyen Phu Trong, the man leading the campaign against corruption.
Now, like his predecessor Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Mr Thuong has also been forced to resign over unspecified links to a scandal in his home province
