Choummaly Sayasone

Choummaly Sayasone
ຈູມມະລີ ໄຊຍະສອນ
General Secretar o the Central Committee o the Lao Fowk's Revolutionar Pairty
In office 21 Mairch 2006 – 22 Januar 2016
Precedit bi	Khamtai Siphandon (as Chairman)
Succeedit bi	Bounnhang Vorachith
Preses o Laos
In office 8 Juin 2006 – 20 Aprile 2016
Prime Meenister	Bouasone Bouphavanh Thongsing Thammavong
Vice Preses	Bounnhang Vorachith
Precedit bi	Khamtai Siphandon
Succeedit bi	Bounnhang Vorachith
Personal details
Born	(1936-03-06) 6 Mairch 1936 Attapeu, Laos
Poleetical pairty	Lao Fowk's Revolutionary Pairty
Spoose(s)	Keosaychay Sayasone

Lieutenant General Choummaly Sayasone (Lao: ຈູມມະລີ ໄຊຍະສອນ; born 6 Mairch 1936) is the maist recent umwhileGeneral Secretar o the Lao Fowk's Revolutionar Pairty (LPRP) an Preses o the Lao Fowk's Democratic Republic. He wis electit as Pairty General Secretar on 21 Mairch 2006, in the eftermath o the Pairty's 8t Congress bi the 1st plenum o the 8t Central Committee, succeedin Khamtai Siphandon, an he subsequently succeedit Siphandon as Preses on Juin 8, 2006. He wis succeedit bi Bounnhang Vorachith in baith poseetions in 2016.

Choummaly wis born in Attapu. He jyned the Pairty's Politburo in 1991 an served as Meenister o Defence frae 1991 tae 2001. Subsequently he wis Vice Preses frae 2001 tae 2006.

In Mairch 2011, he wis reelectit tae his poseetion as pairty General Secretar at the 9t LPRP Congress. In Juin 2011, he retained his wis reelectit as Preses o Laos at the Sevent Lao Naitional Assembly.