Truong Thi Mai who was, until yesterday, the Standing Secretary of the Secretariat, has resigned her position. This was after it was revealed there were ‘violations and shortcomings’ in her work. Resignations among Vietnam’s leadership have become common of late with the president resigning in March and the Chariman of the National Assembly resigning just weeks ago.
There is a multitude of analysis regarding what is happening in the upper echelons of Vietnamese politics but in a nutshell it looks a lot like a lurch toward a more conservative Vietnam.