Editing Politics of Vietnam (section)

== Key figures ==
[[File:Political Structure in Vietnam.png|thumb|Political Structure in Vietnam]]{{Further|Four pillars (Vietnamese bureaucrats)}}{{Multiple image
| header            = Four pillars
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| image1            = Tô Lâm in Hanoi - 2024 (P064238-935063).jpg
| caption1          = [[General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam|General Secretary of the Communist Party]] - [[Tô Lâm]]
| image2            = Luong Cuong 11112024.jpg
| caption2          = [[President of Vietnam|State President]] -<br />[[Lương Cường]]
| image3            = Pham Minh Chinh 2021.jpg
| caption3          = [[Prime Minister of Vietnam|Prime Minister]] -<br />[[Phạm Minh Chính]]
| align             = center
| image4            = Tran Thanh Man JP2024.jpg
| caption4          = [[Chairman of the National Assembly of Vietnam|National Assembly Chairman]] -<br />[[Trần Thanh Mẫn]]
}}

Practically, a four-person collective leadership is responsible for governing Vietnam. Unofficially referred as the [[Four pillars (Vietnamese bureaucrats)|four pillars]] ({{Langx|vi|tứ trụ}}, {{Lang-vi-hantu|四柱}}), the collection consists of the [[General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam]], [[President of Vietnam]], [[Prime Minister of Vietnam]] and [[Chairman of the National Assembly of Vietnam]], being four key figures in the Vietnamese political system. It is instrumented to avoid [[Centralisation|consolidating too much power into a single position]], thus avoiding [[dictatorship]].