The
Communist Party of Vietnam is organized according to the
Leninist
Leninism is a political ideology developed by Russian Marxist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin that proposes the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat led by a revolutionary vanguard party as the political prelude to the establishm ...
principle of
Democratic centralism.
The supreme party organ is the National Congress, which has been held every five years since . Due to war footing during the time of wars against France and the United States, the first four congresses were not fixed according to a common time schedule. Since the Foundation Conference, 12 national CPV congresses have been held.
The National Congress elects the Central Committee, consisting of 180 full members and 20 alternates. The Central Committee usually meets twice a year.
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