Chinese leader Xi Jinping is unveiling his top leadership team for the next five years, culminating in months of preparations behind closed doors as he begins a third term surrounded by allies – further consolidating his power.
New members of the Politburo Standing Committee, China’s most powerful decision-making body, walk through the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in ranked order – publicly revealing for the first time the faces that will be at the top of the party over the next half-decade.
The standing committee is formally appointed by a vote of the party’s newly formed Central Committee, its 205-member leadership body.
But this is widely seen as a mere formality, with the actual decisions on who will take the top seats made in closed-door discussions between top party leaders, months before the big day arrives.
Two key heavyweights not in Xi’s inner circle are due to retire – leaving Xi the head of a Standing Committee largely free of rivals, changing what for decades was a power-sharing structure at the top of the party.
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(Posted by Anna Gabriela Costa of CNN)
Source: CNN Brasil
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