{"id":62726,"date":"2024-03-21T14:48:18","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T05:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/21\/vietnam-president-vo-van-thuong-resignation"},"modified":"2024-03-21T14:48:18","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T05:48:18","slug":"vietnam-loses-its-second-president-in-two-years-amid-concerns-for-political-stability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62726","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam loses its second president in two years amid concerns for political stability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vo Van Thuong has resigned after just over a year, as the country continues its \u2018blazing furnace\u2019 anti-corruption drive<\/p>\n<p>Vietnam\u2019s government has announced the resignation of its second president in as many years amid an anti-corruption drive, sparking concerns for the country\u2019s political stability.<\/p>\n<p>President Vo Van Thuong\u2019s alleged \u201cviolations and flaws have negatively affected public perception, as well as the reputation of the party and the state\u201d, state media reported on Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/e.vnexpress.net\/news\/news\/president-vo-van-thuong-resigns-4724612.html\">citing<\/a> an announcement from the Central Committee of the Communist party of Vietnam. No further details of any alleged violations were released.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/21\/vietnam-president-vo-van-thuong-resignation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vo Van Thuong has resigned after just over a year, as the country continues its \u2018blazing furnace\u2019 anti-corruption driveVietnam\u2019s government has announced the resignation of its second president in as many years amid an anti-corruption drive, sparking c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3941,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,430],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-vietnam"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3941"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62727,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62726\/revisions\/62727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}