China to remove 2-term limit from Constitution

[Thomas Promise]

Maybe China's FDR soon. China's ruling Communist Party has proposed removing a limit of two consecutive terms for the country's president, the official news agency said Sunday, appearing to lay the groundwork for party leader Xi Jinping to rule as president beyond 2023.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/china-proposes-removing-2-term-limit-president-090105292.html?soc_trk=gcm&soc_src=69f70237-124f-3ea9-acd0-fc922af945e2&.tsrc=notification-brknews

[Randy W]

More details from the SCMP, via Xinhua

 

China will scrap limit on presidential term, meaning Xi Jinping can stay on

Communist Party to change constitution at upcoming parliamentary session

 

 

In a brief report, the official news agency said the ruling Communist Party had proposed to remove the line that the president and vice-president “shall serve no more than two consecutive terms” from the constitution.

 

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“This is a very clear sign that the president will remain in office beyond the existing term limit. We don’t know if it could be life tenure at this stage,” Deng said.

“The president is still largely a nominal title now, so raising the term limit is not too significant unless new power is attached to the title ... So in the next five years, the president may be given more substantial power, and we are likely to see that in future constitutional amendments.”

 

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Minutes after the announcement, Xinhua reported that the party proposed to write Xi’s political theory – Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era – into the constitution. It also planned to list the new super anti-graft body, the National Supervisory Commission, as a new state agency in the constitution.

 

While the party has proposed to remove the presidential term limit, one sentence will be added to the constitution to highlight the importance of its leadership, Xinhua reported.

“The leadership of the Communist Party of China is the defining feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics,” the new paragraph reads.

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Meanwhile, at a study session attended by the 25 members of the Politburo on Saturday, Xi talked about the “important role” of the constitution, according to Xinhua.

“No organisation or individual has the power to overstep the constitution or the law,” Xinhua quoted Xi as saying.

 

[Greg.D.]

 

Kerry Brown, director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College London, said recent developments in so-called stable democracies in the West may have provided some justification for the party to seek further stability and continuity.

“Trump, Brexit, the rise of the extreme right and left again in polities throughout the democratic world … made domestic Chinese politics even more fixated on stability and on avoiding any kind of uncertainty and risk,” Brown said. “Xi is the symbolic figure at the centre of this, the person whose leadership everything hangs on.”

 

can't disprove that

[Randy W]

The problem I see with it is that the "War Against" Foreign relations and foreign enterprises within China will continue for a LONG time.

[Greg.D.]

One of my paranoid interpretations was that he was solidifying his positions before makes some major moves in the international arena. I often think he wants to have some conflagrations with the West, U.S. in particular in the you know where Seas.

 

I'm looking forward to the 2022 Olympics in Beijing though I don't see China's relationship to the west getting any better before then

[Randy W]

from Reuters in the SCMP