Xi Jinping elected as the China’s President for the third term.
According to foreign media, Xi Jinping of the Communist Party has elected president for the next 5 years.
According to reports, Xi Jinping has also elected as the chairman of the Central Military Commission.
About 3,000 members of China’s rubber-stamp parliament, the National People’s Congress (NPC), voted unanimously in the Great Hall of the People for 69-year-old Xi to become president in an election where there were no other candidates.
When he abolished presidential term limits in 2018, the stage set for another eleventh term. His tenure already extended last October. When he reappointed as general secretary of the ruling Communist Party’s Central Committee for another five years.
Voting continued for about an hour and electronic counting completed in about 15 minutes. Xi Jinping elected as the China’s President for the third term.
In the next two days, Xi Jinping officials will appointed or selected to fill top cabinet positions. Including Premier-in-waiting Li Qiang, named China’s No. 2. will placed in the position of Charged with managing the world’s second largest economy.
Xi spoke casually with Li, who was seated to his left, as delegates deposited voting slips into electronic ballot boxes.
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The election of the state leaders by Parliament comes three months after the lifting of strict COVID-19 policies and a new wave of infections caused by the highly transmissible Omicron strain across the country. Except for dozens of top leaders, all other delegates and staff wore masks.