Delegates unanimously voted for him, with a total of 2,952 votes: third term makes him the longest-serving Chinese leader ever
Photogallery – China, Xi Jinping elected for the third term as president
The Chinese president Xi Jinping was re-elected for the third time leading the People’s Republic of China. Seventy years old on June 15, Xi Jinping has thus become the longest-serving Chinese head of state since the communist victory in 1949. The mandate for another 5 years was given to him by the National People’s Congress, the legislative branch of the Beijing parliament. His reconfirmation was still taken for granted after the equally unpublished third term at the helm of the Communist Party obtained at the XX National Congress of the CPC in October 2022.
Delegates have
voted unanimously (with a total of 2,952 votes) the third presidential term for Xi Jinping, completing his ascent to
undisputed leader of the People’s Republic of China with another 5 years at the institutional top of the country. The unanimous go-ahead repeated that of 2018, on the occasion of his second term, the same year in which China decided to abolish the constitutional provisions that prevented a third term.
The National People’s Congress has also nominated Xi – who has already taken the oath on the Constitution in the Great Hall of the People – also to the position of
chairman of the Central Military Commissionthe country’s highest body that oversees the armed forces, for the third term and with a unanimous vote.
Zhao Lejiconfirmed in October 2022 in the Politburo Permanent Committee, was unanimously elected
Chairman of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People’s Congressthen at the head of the legislative branch of parliament, being number three in the hierarchy of the Communist Party.
The outgoing executive deputy prime minister
Han Zheng, who left the Politburo Standing Committee at the 20th CPC National Congress in October, was nominated
Vice President of the People’s Republic: a signal about the appointment emerged last Sunday when, on the occasion of the opening of the annual plenary meeting of the Congress, Han entered the auditorium of the Great Hall of the People with Xi and other leaders, but in front of the outgoing vice president Wang Qishan.
The appointment of Han, given his almost 69 years, leaves the knot of succession to Xi unresolved: in the past, in fact, the designation as vice president was the preliminary step for the rise to power, as happened to Xi himself.