Vietnam
Country in SE Asia, on the South China Sea, bounded N by China and
W by Cambodia and Laos.
Government
Under the 1992 constitution, the supremacy of the Communist Party is
declared and the highest state authority and sole legislative
chamber is the National Assembly, the Quoc Hoi, composed of a
maximum of 400 members directly elected every five years by universal
suffrage. The assembly elects from its ranks a permanent, 15-member
council of state, whose chair acts as state president, to function
in its absence. The executive government is the council of ministers,
headed by the prime minister, which is elected by and responsible
to the National Assembly.
The dominating force in Vietnam is the Communist Party. It is
controlled by a politburo, and is prescribed a ` leading role´
by the constitution.
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