{"id":12611,"date":"2026-01-25T19:23:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T19:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/vietnam-now-a-party-of-one-under-to-lam\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T19:23:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T19:23:21","slug":"vietnam-now-a-party-of-one-under-to-lam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/vietnam-now-a-party-of-one-under-to-lam\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam now a party of one under To Lam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>As the curtain fell on the Vietnamese Communist Party\u2019s five-yearly 14th National Congress, international observers focused on the headlines: General To Lam\u2019s unanimous re-election as general secretary and his ambitious 10% GDP growth target. The surface narrative was of continuity and stability.<\/p>\n<p>However, a closer examination reveals a structural anomaly. In an unprecedented move, the Congress Resolution included a directive to propose amendments to the Party Charter <a href=\"https:\/\/vietnamnet.vn\/de-xuat-dinh-huong-bo-sung-sua-doi-dieu-le-dang-ngay-sau-dai-hoi-14-2484556.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cimmediately after\u201d<\/a> the five-yearly event. <\/p>\n<p>This directly contradicted pre-Congress statements by senior&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/asiatimes.com\/2026\/01\/vietnam-now-a-party-of-one-under-to-lam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the curtain fell on the Vietnamese Communist Party\u2019s five-yearly 14th National Congress, international observers focused on the headlines: General To Lam\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3455,3508],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-asie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}