Vietnam president resigns over bribery scandal

On Tuesday, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam approved the resignation of President Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

Local reports said the man also resigned from his position in the store’s operating organization.

according to the newspaper Tuoi TrePhuc resigned Senior Cabinet member responsible for bribery scandal on repatriation flights during pandemic .

Phuc, 69, will become the first Vietnamese president to step down before the end of a term that began just two years ago.

Prior to that, he was the Prime Minister of Vietnam for five years.

During that time he was very popular for his management in the first year of the covid-19 pandemic.