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    Politics of Laos

  • 1. POLITICS OF LAOS BENEDICT GOMBOCZ

  • 2. OVERVIEW • THE POLITICS OF LAOS FUNCTIONS IN THE STRUCTURE OF A SINGLE-PARTY SOCIALIST REPUBLIC. • THE LAO PEOPLE’S REVOLUTIONARY PARTY (LPRP) IS THE ONLY LEGAL POLITICAL PARTY. • PRESIDENT CHOUMMALY SAYASONE, ALSO THE GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE LPRP, IS THE HEAD OF STATE. • PM THONGSING THAMMAVONG IS THE HEAD OF GOVERNMENT. • THROUGH THE NINE-MEMBER POLITBURO OF THE LAO PEOPLE’S REVOLUTIONARY PARTY AND THE 49-MEMBER CENTRAL COMMITTEE, THE PARTY DECIDES ON GOVERNMENT POLICIES. • VITAL GOVERNMENT DECISIONS ARE VETTED BY THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS. • THE FISCAL YEAR 2000 CENTRAL GOVERNMENT BUDGET PLAN WANTED A PROFIT OF $180 MILLION AND PAYMENTS OF $289 MILLION, SUCH AS CAPITAL PAYMENTS OF $202 MILLION.

  • 3. MAJOR LEADERS OF LAOS MAJOR LEADERS OF LAOS • GOVERNMENT SINGLE-PARTY MARXIST-LENINIST SOCIALIST REPUBLIC • PRESIDENT CHOUMMALY SAYASONE • PRIME MINISTER THONGSING THAMMAVONG • PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PANY YATHOTU • PRESIDENT OF CONSTRUCTION SISAVATH KEOBOUNPHANH • LEGISLATURE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF LAOS

  • 4. POLITICAL MAP OF LAOS

  • 5. POLITICAL CULTURE • THE FIRST MONARCHICAL CONSTITUTION OF LAOS, WRITTEN IN FRENCH, WAS ADOPTED ON MAY 11, 1947, AND DECLARED LAOS INDEPENDENT WITHIN TH

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    THE surprise resignation of the Lao prime minister, Bouasone Bouphavanh, two days before Christmas brought about a transfer of power in Laos every bit as efficiently as the replacement of Kevin Rudd by Julia Gillard – but with none of the accompanying press speculation and commentary.

    The Lao News Agency, KPL, simply reported that Bouasone had resigned in a statement to the National Assembly, which then unanimously endorsed the assembly president, Thongsing Thammavong, as his successor. The English-language Vientiane Times added that Bouasone had resigned because of “family problems,” but provided no other information. Thongsing, for his part, said only that his appointment would improve “implementation of the state’s roles and duties,” thereby ensuring continuing “political stability and basic social security.”

    The mention of “family problems” was a reference to Bouasone’s recent divorce and growing resentment that his mistress had used her position to enrich herself and her family. The fact that no previous Lao leader has been forced to resign for such peccadilloes has generated alternative explanations – that Bouasone had failed to assert control over his cabinet, for example, or that he had allo

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