Choummaly Sayasone : Ask Biography

Personal data

Date of birth

6 March 1936(age 80)

Place of birth

Attapu, Laos

Political party

Lao People's Revolutionary Party

Spouse

Keosaychay Sayasone

General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party

Assumed office

21 March 2006

Preceded by

Khamtai Siphandon
(Party Chairman)

President of Laos

Assumed office

8 June 2006

President

Bounnhang Vorachith

Prime minister

Bouasone Bouphavanh
Thongsing Thammavong

Vice President

Bounnhang Vorachith

Preceded by

Khamtai Siphandon

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Lieutenant General Choummaly Sayasone (Lao: ຈູມມະລີ ໄຊຍະສອນ; born March 6, 1936 in Attapu) is General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party and President of the Lao People's Democratic Republic. He was elected as Party General Secretary on March 21, 2006, by the Party's 8th Congress, succeeding Khamtai Siphandon, and he subsequently succeeded Siphandon as President on June 8, 2006.

Choummaly joined the Party's Politburo in 1991 and served as Vice President from 2001 to 2006. He also served for a time as Minister of Defence (1991 � 2001).

In June 2011, he was retained his position as President of Laos at the Seventh Lao National Assembly.