The Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) on Saturday named its public security minister to become the country’s new president, nearly two months after Vietnam’s former president resigned amid a corruption crackdown. CPV named To Lam as the new president after a three-day meeting of the CPV’s Central Committee in Hanoi, the CPV said in a statement. Lam, one of the 16 members of the Politburo, the most powerful body of the Communist Party, will be rubber-stamped as the president at a National Assembly meeting on Monday. Lam has been seen as a hardliner when it comes to dealings with the Vietnamese d…