Vietnam Elects Anti-Corruption Crusader as New President

Vietnam’s National Assembly elected police minister To Lam as the nation’s new president, the legislature said on Wednesday.

Lam, 66, was minister of public security and deputy head of the Communist Party’s anti-corruption committee before taking on the second most important position in Vietnam’s political hierarchy. He becomes Vietnam’s third president in less than two years after his two immediate predecessors resigned for “violations” that were possibly detected by the ministry that Lam oversaw.