As Vietnam's ruling Communist Party started a weeklong meeting on Monday, discussion has intensified over the top leadership that will emerge and set the tone for the next five years in the fast-developing Southeast Asian country.
A government statement said the latest plenum would include discussion of "personnel documents" — a euphemism for deciding who holds the most important posts, which will be formally assigned at the Communist Party Congress due in January.
The congress will shape policy five years after General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, a party ideologue, emerged to lead an anti-corruption drive after ejecting a former leadership that had closer ties to business.