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Lieutenant General Choummaly Sayasone (Lao: ຈູມມະລີ ໄຊຍະສອນ; born 6 March 1936) is a Laotian politician who has been General Secretary (''de facto'' leader) of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) and President of Laos since 2006. Choummaly was born in Attapu. He joined the Party's Politburo in 1991 and served as Minister of Defense from 1991 to 2001. Subsequently he was Vice President from 2001 to 2006. He was elected as the LPRP's General Secretary on 21 March 2006, in the aftermath of the Party's 8th Congress, by the first plenum of the eighth Central Committee, succeeding Khamtai Siphandon as ''de facto'' leader of Laos. He subsequently succeeded Siphandon as the 6th President of Laos on June 8, 2006. In March 2011, he was reelected to his position as the LPRP's General Secretary at the 9th LPRP Congress. In June 2011, he was re-elected as President of Laos at the seventh National Assembly.〔(Profile: President of Laos Choummaly Sayasone )〕 ==References== |- |- |- 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Choummaly Sayasone」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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