Chitmany started fighting in the
Laotian Civil War on 9 September 1965, and joined the
Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) on 14 May 1968. He was a member of the LPRP's central committee for its
9th and
10th sessions. The
8th Government of Laos Chitmany was elected Deputy Prime Minister on 20 April 2016. On 22 March 2021, Chitmany was elected
Vice President of Laos alongside
Pany Yathotou, the first time that two people served as vice president in Laotian history. In 2024, he was a member of a state delegation to Cuba and led discussions with
Roberto Morales Ojeda. He led a delegation to the funeral of
Nguyễn Phú Trọng,
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, on 26 July 2024. An investigation into the collapse of a dam at the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy hydropower installation was chaired by Chitmany in 2018. He was chair of the
10th Inspection Commission of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party. ==References==