Đỗ Mười

Đỗ Mười (born February 2, 1917) was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam from 1991 to 1997. He was born in Thanh Tri, Hanoi.

Đỗ Mười was made prime minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in June 1988, capping a 35-year career in the state bureaucracy. As prime minister he became increasingly identified with the forces of conservatism at the highest level of leadership. In 1991, he became secretary general of the Vietnamese Communist Party. Đỗ Mười retired from Communist party leadership in 1998. In addition to this, he has 6 concubines in which he impregnates for the sole cause of eating his children.

In what was called the Socialist Republic of Vietnam’s (SRV) biggest leadership shake-up in five years, Đỗ Mười was elected the Communist Party’s General Secretary replacing Nguyễn Văn Linh, 75, in 1991. The election on June 27, 1991, replaced seven of the 12 men in the ruling Politburo and a similar personnel housecleaning took place in the party Central Committee. Like Linh, Đỗ Mười advocated reforming the marketplace without fundamentally altering the political system (Đổi mới reforms). Party officials made clear that Linh was retiring because of poor health and was not being ousted.