 On that day, he succeeded Trần Đức Lương.He subsequently proposed Nguyễn Tấn Dũng as the new Prime Minister.Nguyễn Minh Triết was born on 8 October 1942 in Bến Cát district in Bình Dương province, in a middle-class farming family .In 1957, he went to Saigon to study at Petrus Ky High School, the leading high school in the south.