Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh (born 25 December 1959) is a Vietnamese politician who served as the
Vice President of Vietnam, in office from 2016 to 2021. In this capacity she was the Acting
President of Vietnam
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from the death of President
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on 21 September 2018 until the election and swearing-in of his successor
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on 23 October 2018. Thịnh was the first woman in Vietnamese history to become President or Acting President of Vietnam (in the sense of a constitutional head of state in her own right). She was the
first female head of state in a communist country since
Soong Ching-ling
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of
China.
Thịnh was elected
Vice President of Vietnam on 8 April 2016 after winning 91.09% of votes (450 votes) in the
National Assembly
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, continuing the recent norm of having a woman holding this position.
She was a member of the 11th and 13th National Assemblies.
She became a member of the
Communist Party of Vietnam on 19 November 1979.
In January 2021, at the 13th National Party Congress, she was not on the list of members of the new Party Central Committee.
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1959 births
Living people
Vice presidents of Vietnam
Communist Party of Vietnam politicians
20th-century Vietnamese women politicians
Members of the National Assembly (Vietnam)
People from Quảng Nam Province
Women vice presidents
Presidents of Vietnam
Female heads of state
Women presidents
21st-century Vietnamese women politicians