# The South African Communist Party says newly elected Vietnamese president, Tom Lam, brings invaluable experience and knowledge to the executive position, and will only move the national cause forward. Earlier this week, lawmakers unanimously elected the Communist Party Secretary General as the country’s state president for the next five years. SACP’s Mbulelo Mandlana says Lam’s leadership represent a brighter future for the cause of socialism in the Asian region:
SACP has full confidence in the newly elected Vietnamese president [SOUND]
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