General Secretary or First Secretary is the official title of leaders of most communist parties. When a communist party is the ruling party in a socialist state, most often designated as communist states by foreign observers, the general secretary is typically the country's de facto leader. Though sometimes this leader also holds state-level positions, such as a presidency or premiership in order to hold de jure leadership of the state as well. The general secretary is normally elected by the central committee of the ruling communist party (the Workers' Party of Korea being an exception), and concurrently serves in the politburo and the secretariat.

General secretaries of ruling communist parties

Leaders of current ruling communist parties
Party Title Officeholder Took office Length of tenure Ref.
Chinese Communist Party General Secretary of the Central Committee Xi Jinping 15 November 2012 11 years, 62 days [1]
Communist Party of Cuba First Secretary of the Central Committee Miguel Díaz-Canel 19 April 2021 2 years, 272 days [2]
Communist Party of Vietnam General Secretary of the Central Committee Nguyễn Phú Trọng 8 January 2011 13 years, 8 days [3]
Lao People's Revolutionary Party General Secretary of the Central Committee Thongloun Sisoulith 15 January 2021 3 years, 1 day [4]
Workers' Party of Korea General Secretary Kim Jong-un 11 April 2012 11 years, 280 days [5]

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References

  1. ↑ Li, Cheng. "Xi Jinping 习近平" (PDF). Brookings Institution. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 May 2023. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
  2. ↑ "Cuba leadership: Díaz-Canel named Communist Party chief". BBC News. 19 April 2021. Archived from the original on 13 November 2023. Retrieved 13 November 2023.
  3. ↑ Cain, Geoffrey (19 January 2011). "Why Vietnam's Political Reshuffling Won't Fix A Struggling Economy". Time. Archived from the original on 13 November 2023. Retrieved 13 November 2023.
  4. ↑ "Communist party of Laos names PM Thongloun as new leader -state media". Reuters. 15 January 2021. Archived from the original on 13 November 2023. Retrieved 13 November 2023.
  5. ↑ Kim, Jack (11 April 2012). "N.Korea's Kim Jong-un named party "first secretary"". Reuters. Archived from the original on 13 November 2023. Retrieved 13 November 2023.
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