Xi Jinping unanimously wins unprecedented third term as China’s president

Xi Jinping He won a historic third term as China’s president on Friday after a vote by the country’s legislature, which unanimously ratified his status as the most powerful leader in decades.

Shortly before 11 a.m. (local time), MPs voted and 2,952 were in favour, zero against, and there were no abstentions. At the end of the announcement, there was loud applause from the parliamentarians gathered in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

No was an unexpected result that the parliament was in the practice subjugated to the Partido Comunista (PCCh), that in October there was a number for our last five years as secretary general and jefe of the military training committee, the cargoes of more power in the country.

The only candidate for the post, the 69-year-old leader was given a new term as head of state, a position he has held since 2013. Xi’s official re-election took place thanks to in 2018, the government abolished the constitutional limit of two presidential terms It had been in force since the time of Mao Zedong, founder of the People’s Republic of China.

The annual session of the People’s Assembly was also an opportunity to announce a modest growth target “of the order of 5%” in 2023 and a military budget increase at a time when Russia and Ukraine are in armed conflict.

With information from AFP