Chinese President Xi was elected as the representative of the CPC Congress; All set to garner support for a rare third term – Times of India

BEIJING: China’s ruling Communist Party has the ball rolling for a rare third term in the presidency Xi Jinping Because he was “unanimously elected” as a delegate to a five-year party congress to be held in the next few months, which was widely expected to seal of approval for his continuation.
Xi, 68, was unanimously elected representative of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) at the party’s Guangxi Regional Congress on Friday, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
The report said Xi was nominated by the CPC Central Committee as a candidate for delegate to the 20th CPC National Congress, which is due in the second half of 2022. The CPC Congress of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region was held in the regional capital Nanning on Thursday and Friday.
The Congress, which is due in November, has apparently been accelerated given the complex and fluid national and international situation triggered by the COVID-19 virus in the country that has paralyzed Shanghai. The leadership has started this quickly. Deepening the Russo-Ukraine war in which Beijing was caught in the middle and increasing US pressure to secede from close ally Moscow.