CHINA'S XI APPOINTED PRESIDENT, COMPLETES RISE TO THE TOP
China's Parliament on March 14, 2013 formally elected hei-in-waiting Xi Jinping President, completing
the country's second orderly political succession since the Communist Party took over in 1949.
The largely rubber-stamp National People's Congress chose Xi in a lightly scripted ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in central Beijing, putting the final seal of approval on a generational transition of power.
Xi had been appointed party and military chiefwhere real power lies-in November 2012.
The 59 year old was also elected head of the Central Military Commission, a parallel government post to the party's top military position which he already holds, ensuring that he has full power over the party, state an armed forces. There was virtually no opposition among the carefully selected legislators to Xi becoming
President. Xi drew just one to vote and three abstentions from the almost 3,000 delegates.
Xi bowed deeply and shook hands with his predecessor Hu Jintao upon the announcement of the result, carried live on state television. Xi and Hu exchanged a few inaudible words Li Yuanchao was also elected Vice-President, confirming an earlier Reuters story.
There were five other candidates putforth for the Vice-Presidential position including Wang Yang, the
reformist former party chief of southern Guangdong province, and propaganda tsar Liu Yunhan. Xi had fended off a bid by influential former President Jiang Zemin to install Liu, a source with ties to the leadership said. Xi, who took over from Hu Jintao, is likely to remain President, till 2022. Xi takes over the reins of the country at a time when China and the authoritarian CPC are fraught with issues like corruption, pollution, slowing down of the economy and millions of citizens clamouring for better administration.
the country's second orderly political succession since the Communist Party took over in 1949.
The largely rubber-stamp National People's Congress chose Xi in a lightly scripted ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in central Beijing, putting the final seal of approval on a generational transition of power.
Xi had been appointed party and military chiefwhere real power lies-in November 2012.
The 59 year old was also elected head of the Central Military Commission, a parallel government post to the party's top military position which he already holds, ensuring that he has full power over the party, state an armed forces. There was virtually no opposition among the carefully selected legislators to Xi becoming
President. Xi drew just one to vote and three abstentions from the almost 3,000 delegates.
Xi bowed deeply and shook hands with his predecessor Hu Jintao upon the announcement of the result, carried live on state television. Xi and Hu exchanged a few inaudible words Li Yuanchao was also elected Vice-President, confirming an earlier Reuters story.
There were five other candidates putforth for the Vice-Presidential position including Wang Yang, the
reformist former party chief of southern Guangdong province, and propaganda tsar Liu Yunhan. Xi had fended off a bid by influential former President Jiang Zemin to install Liu, a source with ties to the leadership said. Xi, who took over from Hu Jintao, is likely to remain President, till 2022. Xi takes over the reins of the country at a time when China and the authoritarian CPC are fraught with issues like corruption, pollution, slowing down of the economy and millions of citizens clamouring for better administration.
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