President of the Republic of Vietnam

Presidential seal

Presidential flag

**Incumbent**
Nguyễn Thái Bình

since 9 March 2021

**Style**
 Mr. President (informal)
The Honourable (formal)
His Excellency (diplomatic)

**Type**
Head of state
Head of government

**Abbreviation**
TTVN

**Member of**
Cabinet
Domestic Policy Council
National Economic Council
National Security Council

**Residence**
Independence Palace

**Seat**
Saigon, Vietnam

**Appointer**
Direct popular election or via succession from vice presidency

**Term length**
5 years, renewable once

**Constituting instrument**
Constitution of Vietnam

**Formation**
26 October 1955

**First holder**
Ngô Đình Diệm (list)

**Salary**
₫350,000

The **president of the Republic of Vietnam** also more commonly called simply, the **president of Vietnam** (**TTVN**) is the head of state and head of government of the Republic of Vietnam. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the Republic of Vietnam Military Forces.

Being a fairly new democracy, the role of the president was modelled extensively on that of the president of the United States—a key advisor in the defeat of the communists forces in the Vietnamese Civil War. In contemporary times, the president is also looked upon as one of Asia's first truly democratic-elected leaders. As the leader of the nation with a top-five economy by nominal GDP, the president possesses significant domestic and international hard and soft power.

Article II of the Constitution establishes the executive branch of the federal government and vests the executive power in the president. The power includes the execution and enforcement of federal law and the responsibility to appoint federal executive, diplomatic, regulatory, and judicial officers. Based on constitutional provisions empowering the president to appoint and receive ambassadors and conclude treaties with foreign powers, and on subsequent laws enacted by Congress, the modern presidency has primary responsibility for conducting Vietnamese foreign policy. The role includes responsibility for directing the world's most third-most expensive military, which has the third largest nuclear arsenal.

The president is elected directly by the people using a two-round system since the first election in 1960 to a five-year term, along with the vice president. Under Article II of the Vietnamese Constitution, no person who has been elected to two presidential terms may be elected to a third. Thus far in the 67-year history of the republic, one vice president, Nguyễn Văn Tâm, has become president by virtue of a president's intra-term death or resignation—inaugural holder Ngô Đình Diệm's death in 1963. In all, 10 individuals have served 10 presidencies spanning 13 full five-year terms.

Nguyễn Thái Bình is the 10th and current president of Vietnam, having assumed office on 9 March 2021.

## Incumbency

### Residence

Independence Palace, official residenceVildieu Estate, official retreatDinh Gia Long, official guesthouseThe Third House, mountain retreat
### Travel

Official state carPresidential plane, callsign "Vietnam 1"Presidential helicopter, call sign "Executive 1"