National Assembly finance-budget committee has new chairman

The National Assembly on Monday appointed Le Quang Manh, Secretary of Can Tho city's Party Committee, as National Assembly Standing Committee member and Chairman of the legislative body's Finance-Budget Committee.

Manh, 49, has a doctorate degree in economics, He is a member of the 13th Party Central Committee and the 15th National Assembly.

Manh held many positions at the Ministry of Planning and Investment for more than 20 years, such as deputy head of the external relations department; head of the department of small and medium enterprise development; head of the business registration department; head of the external relations department; and head of the department of territorial and local economy.

In March 2018, he became Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment, and was assigned to be Deputy Secretary of Can Tho's Party Committee over a year later and then Chairman of the city.

Manh was appointed Secretary of Can Tho's Party's Commitee in September, 2020, at the age of 46.

Previously, on the same day, the National Assembly had dismissed Nguyen Phu Cuong from the position of its member and Finance-Budget Committee chairman.

Cuong had submitted an application last Tuesday to resign from his National Assembly (NA) positions. This came one day after the Central Party Committee approved removing him from the committee.

In November 2022, the Inspection Commission of the Central Party Committee pointed out that Cuong, in his former job as secretary of Dong Nai's Party Committee in 2016-2021, was responsible for violations related to the equitization of some businesses in the southern province.

As Cuong is no longer an NA member, the legislative body now has 494 members.