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The Lao People's Revolutionary Party is the sole party that can field candidates. During the 2016 Laotian parliamentary election the party obtained 144 of 149 total seats, with the rest won by independent candidates. In total, Laos has 4,280,000 eligible voters, according to the National Election Committee.
The president of the Lao People's Democratic Republic is the head of state of Laos. The current president is Thongloun Sisoulith, since 22 March 2021. He was previously elected as the General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party, Laos' most powerful position in January 2021, ranking him first in the Politburo .
The COVID-19 pandemic in Laos is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 ( COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ( SARS-CoV-2 ). On 24 March 2020, Laos became the last country in Southeast Asia to report its confirmed case of the virus. As of 05 June 2022, there were a total of 210,081 cases and ...
t. e. The 9th Government of the Lao People's Democratic Republic was elected by the 1st Session of the 9th National Assembly on 22 March 2021. [1]
The politics of the Lao People's Democratic Republic (commonly known as Laos) takes place in the framework of a one-party parliamentary socialist republic. [1] The only legal political party is the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP). [2] The head of state is President Thongloun Sisoulith, who is also the LPRP general secretary, making him ...
The insurgency in Laos is a low-intensity conflict between the Laotian government on one side and former members of the Secret Army, Laotian royalists, and rebels from the Hmong and lowland Lao ethnic minorities on the other. These groups have faced reprisals from the Lao People's Army and Vietnam People's Army for their support of the United ...
January. 13 to 15 January – The 11th National Congress of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party is held. [1] 15 January – The 11th Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party is elected. [2] Thongloun Sisoulith is elected Party General Secretary.
Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR or LPDR), is the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia. At the heart of the Indochinese Peninsula , Laos is bordered by Myanmar and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the southeast, and Thailand to the west and southwest. [12]