Chinese President XI Jinping: Xi Jinping has been elected President of China for the third time. Nearly 3,000 members of the National People’s Congress (NPC) voted unanimously to elect Xi Jinping as president. A Reuters report stated that there was no other candidate in the election. Xi has also been elected for a third term as chairman of China’s Central Military Commission.
China’s parliament also elected Zhao Lejie as the new parliament speaker and Han Zheng as the new vice speaker. The two were on Xi’s previous team of party leaders in the Politburo Standing Committee. Let us tell you that in October last year, Xi Jinping was re-elected as the General Secretary of the Communist Party for a record third term of five years.
Xi Jinping unanimously elected president of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) at the ongoing session of the 14th National People’s Congress, reports Xinhua news agency.
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Most powerful leader after Mao Zedong
Significantly, Xi Jinping himself removed the two-term limit on the presidency in 2018. Xi, 69, has become China’s longest-serving head of state with his third term as president. He is the second leader after Mao Zedong to be elected for a third consecutive term.
Please tell that after Xi Jinping became the President for the third time, the 40-year-old rule of the Communist Party of China was broken. From the year 1982, the term of the presidency was 10 years. With Xi getting a third term, this rule has been broken.
