Le Quoc Phong Elected Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City: People's Council Votes Unanimously as He Succeeds Nguyen Van Duoc
The People's Council of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, elected Le Quoc Phong as Chairman of the city's People's Committee at the seventh session of its 11th term on the morning of November 12, with 100% of the delegates present voting in favour, for the 2026-2031 term. At the same session the council dismissed Nguyen Van Duoc from the chairmanship so he could take up other personnel work. The chairman of the People's Committee is the head of the city government, the equivalent of mayor.
Le Quoc Phong was born on May 3, 1978, in Hanoi and is 48. He holds a doctorate in biotechnology, is a member of the Communist Party of Vietnam's Central Committee (as an alternate member in the 12th term and a full member in the 13th and 14th), served in the National Assembly's 14th and 15th terms, and has been Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee since October 2025. Earlier in his career he spent years in the Communist Youth League system, serving as First Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union Central Committee in 2016-17.
Ho Chi Minh City is Vietnam's most populous city and its largest economic centre, and the change at the top of its government forms part of the current round of local personnel adjustments in Vietnam. Nguyen Van Duoc had held the post for about 21 months.
(Source: Ho Chi Minh City People's Council)
Source: Ho Chi Minh City People's Council
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Photo: 图：胡志明市人民委员会总部所在地胡志明市政厅（CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons）。 / Photo: Ho Chi Minh City Hall, seat of the city's People's Committee (CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons).
