Bui Quang Huy re-elected First Secretary of HCYU Central Committee

Bui Quang Huy was re-elected First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCYU) at the closing session of the 12th National Congress of the HCYU on December 16.
Bui Quang Huy re-elected First Secretary of HCYU Central Committee ảnh 1Bui Quang Huy re-elected First Secretary of HCYU Central Committee (Photo: VNA) 

Hanoi (VNA) – Bui Quang Huy was re-elected First Secretary of the CentralCommittee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCYU) at the closing sessionof the 12th National Congress of the HCYU on December 16.

At the beginning of the closing session, the 12th CentralCommittee, its standing board and secretariat in the 2022-2027 tenure madetheir debut.

The HCYU Central Committee in the 12th tenure has 144members, who were elected during the December 15 session. The committee thenelected a 33-member standing board, a six-member secretariat, and the FirstSecretary.

On behalf of the 12th HCYU Central Committee, FirstSecretary Huy pledged to work with high responsibility to concretise andrealise all ideas and views set at the 12th Congress.
 
Huy, born 1977, is an alternate member of the 13th PartyCentral Committee and head of the National Committee on Youth of Vietnam.

He was the standing secretary of the HCYU Central Committee inthe 10th tenure, and the First Secretary in the 11th tenure./.
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