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Montevideo, November 15th 2024 - 04:00 UTC

Tag: Xi

  • Monday, February 26th 2018 - 09:32 UTC

    Xi pushing for constitutional reform to stay in office indefinitely

    Xi, 64, has been China’s president since 2013 and is expected to be re-elected at a meeting of the country’s largely rubber-stamp legislature early next month.

    China says it plans to scrap a two-term limit for the country’s president and vice president, a move that could allow Chinese leader Xi Jinping to stay in office indefinitely. Expectations that Xi, China’s most powerful leader since Mao Zedong, was considering staying in office for more than the typical 10 years has been building for some time now. But the outline of amendment proposals announced by state media Sunday, including Article 79, confirmed those changes could soon become a reality.