Bui Thi Minh Hoai appointed Hanoi’s Party chief

Bui Thi Minh Hoai, a Politburo member and head of the Central Mass Mobilization Commission, has been appointed Secretary of Hanoi’s Party Committee for the 2020-2025 term.

Under a decision released on Wednesday by the Politburo, the country’s most powerful decision-making body, Hoai will hold the new position and no longer be a member of the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat and head of the Central Mass Mobilization Commission.

Hoai is the first female Party chief of Hanoi. She succeeds Dinh Tien Dung, who was approved by the Politburo to step down on June 19.

Bui Thi Minh Hoai, 59, comes from Thanh Liem district, Ha Nam province, and has a master’s degree in law. She is a Party Central Committee member for the 11th, 12th and 13th terms; Secretary of the 13th Party Central Committee, and a member of the 13th Politburo - the current term.

Hoai started her career as an inspector in Nam Dinh. She later held many high positions in the northern province such as deputy head of the provincial Party Committee’s inspection committee; head of the provincial Party Committee’s mass mobilization committee; and Secretary of Phu Ly town’s Party Committee.

She then spent two years as standing vice president of the Vietnam Farmers’ Association and 10 years as deputy head of the Central Inspection Committee.

In April 2021, Hoai was appointed by the Politburo as head of the Central Mass Mobilization Committee. On May 16, 2024, she was one of four people additionally elected by the Party Central Committee to the 13th Politburo.

Since the beginning of the term (2020), the position of Hanoi’s Party chief has seen three changes.

In February 2020, Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue became Secretary of the city’s Party Committee, replacing Hoang Trung Hai.

In early April 2021, Minister of Finance Dinh Tien Dung was assigned to hold the position, replacing Vuong Dinh Hue. Bui Thi Minh Hoai is the fourth.

Hanoi’s Party Committee currently has four Deputy Secretaries, namely Nguyen Thi Tuyen, 53 years old; Nguyen Van Phong, 56; Nguyen Ngoc Tuan, 58; and Tran Sy Thanh, 53.