General Secretary of the Communist Party

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, 127 days
Communist Party of Cuba First Secretary of the Central Committee Miguel Díaz-Canel 19 April 2021 2 years, 337 days
Communist Party of Vietnam General Secretary of the Central Committee Nguyễn Phú Trọng 8 January 2011 13 years, 73 days
Lao People's Revolutionary Party General Secretary of the Central Committee Thongloun Sisoulith 15 January 2021 3 years, 66 days
Workers' Party of Korea General Secretary Kim Jong-un 11 April 2012 11 years, 345 days

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