Newly-elected State President of Vietnam Nguyen Minh Triet on Tuesday morning proposed Nguyen Tan Dung, for the post of Prime Minister, said a local official.

The National Assembly (NA) of Vietnam, the country's top legislature, is scheduled to vote for Dung, who is member of the Political Bureau under the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee, and deputy prime minister, on Tuesday afternoon, the official from the NA office said.

Dung, born in 1949 in southern Ca Mau province, holds a bachelor degree on law and another on high-level political theory from the Ho Chi Minh National Political Academy.

On Tuesday morning, over 94 percent of all NA deputies voted for Triet, member of the Political Bureau, secretary of the Party Committee of southern Ho Chi Minh City, after the legislature on Monday morning officially approved the resignation of outgoing state president Tran Duc Luong, born in 1937, due to age factor.

Source: Xinhua