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Bridge – Deputy Dang Thi Hoang Yen
expressed her “tiredness” in a resignation to the National Assembly Standing
Committee on May 4. However, the Committee turned down the resignation at its
meeting on May 5.
In the
document, Ms. Yen did not mention the direct reason for her resignation but she
wrote that she was “tired” of “suffering pressure from the public opinion.” She
anticipated that she would face “heaped-up difficulties” but she was “willing
to accept” them.
In the
two-page document, the deputy expressed her big concerns but at the end of the
document, Ms. Yen still committed to “live in responsibility” and to assist
“poor but courageous people.”
On May
5, the NA Standing Committee held a caucus to consider dismissal of Deputy
Hoang Yen. Ms. Yen did not participate in this meeting.
Concerning
her absence, Yen explained that she had lodged her resignation and had reported
to the head of the NA’s Committee for Deputies’ Affairs, Nguyen Thi Nuong, that
“her attendance was not necessary.”
Explaining
the Committee’s rejection of Yen’s resignation, a senior official of the NA
Committee for Deputies’ Affairs said: “Article 56 of the Law of Organization of
the National Assembly states that “those National Assembly deputies who are no
longer worthy of the people’s trust shall be removed from office by the
National Assembly or the voters, depending on the seriousness of their errors.
“The
National Assembly Standing Committee shall decide on bringing the case of
removal from office of National Assembly deputies before the National Assembly
or voters in localities where such deputies were elected at the proposals of
the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee, the provincial/municipal
Fatherland Front Committees or of voters in localities where such deputies were
elected.
“In
cases where the National Assembly removes deputies from office, the removal
from office must be approved by at least two-thirds of the total number of
National Assembly deputies.
“In
cases where voters remove National Assembly deputies from office, the removal
shall be carried out according to the procedures prescribed by the National Assembly
Standing Committee.”
As
such, the Law does not include a concept of “resignation” and moreover, the “NA
deputy” title is not a post appointed by the NA, so Yen’s resignation cannot be
acceptable.
NA
Office’s Chair Nguyen Hanh Phuc said that the dismissal of deputy Yen would be
considered at the NA session in late May.
In
April, the Fatherland Front Committee of Long An Province and the Central
Fatherland Front Committee proposed to remove Deputy Hoang Yen from the
legislative body for her incorrect declarations in her curriculum vitae.
As
stated in her profile, Yen is a candidate from outside the Communist Party of
Vietnam, since she left the area blank on the form for “the date of admission
to the Party, if any;” while many sources confirmed that she was a Party member
in the past.
She
also declared in her profile that her husband was Nguyen Tri Hai, who died in
1989, and did not mention her current husband--Jimmy Tran, from whom she sought
a divorce by filing a petition to the Long An Province's People's Court in July
2010, but she recently withdrew the petition after the court’s verdict on the
divorce case was cancelled by the Supreme People’s Court.
As
reported earlier, while the divorce case was being processed, Jimmy, 57, left
Vietnam for the US on July 5, 2010. On September 16, the Ministry of Public
Security prosecuted Jimmy for “abusing trust to appropriate assets” when he was
general director of Vietnam Urban Development Joint Stock Company (Vietnam
Land), located in the Tan Duc Industrial park in Long An Province.
At a
press conference on April 21 in Long An province, deputy Hoang Yen said that
she had sent a petition to the NA and she was willing to accept any decision
made by the legislative body.
Deputy
Hoang Yen will be only dismissed if at least two thirds of the total deputies
approve it.
Ms.
Hoang Yen was born in 1959. She graduated from the HCM City Economics
University. She worked for 11 years at the District 5 People’s Committee of HCM
City (1880-1991). She worked for the HCM City Foreign Trade Development Center
in the next two years.
From
1993, she was director of the Tan Dong Phuong Co., Ltd. At the same time, she
founded the Tan Tao Industrial Investment JS Company (ITA), which has become a
leading industrial park and infrastructure development groups in Vietnam. She
has been the chair of ITA since 1996. She was among the top ten richest people
on the Vietnamese stock market for three consecutive years (2008-2010).
In May
2011, the Fatherland Front of Long An province recommended Yen as a candidate
for the 13th NA election and she won. She is now a member of the NA’s Committee
for Culture, Education, Youth and Children.
PV
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