The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has proposed October 16 as the date to hold the 20th Party Congress in which it could decide whether current Chinese President Xi Jinping is elected for a third term.
More than 2,000 members are expected to meet in Beijing to draw up new policies for “the comprehensive construction of a modern socialist country” at a “crucial moment”, according to the state news agency Xinhua.
With only two votes against and three abstentions, the almost 3,000 delegates of the National People’s Assembly, China’s Parliament, approved in 2018 a constitutional amendment that eliminates the limitation of presidential terms in a decision that gives free rein to the country’s president, Xi Jinping, to rule indefinitely.
At the previous national congress held in November 2021, Xi mentioned former party leaders Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao as leaders of all ethnic groups and the Chinese people in the “vital breakthrough of the Chinese revolution.” , construction and reforms with precious accumulated experience”.
The publication of the document was surprising for being a “historic resolution” like the one of 1945 that gave Mao personalist control of the party for decades or the one that Deng published in 1981 condemning Mao’s Great Leap Forward and his Cultural Revolution to open the way to the liberalization and the market economy.
For all these reasons, the Chinese president faces this year’s congress with a halo comparable to that of the great leaders and that would open the door to a practically infinite Presidency at the head of the Asian giant if it were considered so.
Source: Europa Press
