Vietnam’s lawmakers cast historic confidence votes today to decide the fate of the prime minister and senior leaders, after stumbles that last year prompted the premier to make a public apology to the communist nation.
Premier Nguyen Tan Dung, the country’s president and 45 other senior officials were scrutinized as the 499-member National Assembly cast secret ballots on their level of confidence in leaders for the first time. The results of the votes, a bid to bring greater accountability to government, will be announced tomorrow.
