General Secretary of the Communist Party

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Short description: Leader of a communist party; de facto leader of one-party communist states

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 Communist-led one-party state, 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. One exception to this rule is the China from 1978 to 1990 where the chairman and then General Secretary of the Communist Party were subordinate to elder Deng Xiaoping who was the de facto Paramount leader of China.

Leaders of current communist parties

Country Official title Portrait Name Term of office Other names Ref.
Took office Time in office
 China Danghui.svg
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
Xi Jinping in 2016.jpg Xi Jinping
(born 1953)
15 November 2012 11 years, 248 days Chairman of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (1922–25 & 1943–82)
 Cuba
First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba
Miguel Díaz-Canel 2019.jpg Miguel Díaz-Canel
(born 1960)
19 April 2021 3 years, 92 days N/A
 Cyprus General Secretary of the Progressive Party of Working People Stefanos Stefanou
(born 1965)
4 July 2021 3 years, 16 days N/A
 France Logopcf13.png
National Secretary of the French Communist Party
Roussel Fabien 1.jpg Fabien Roussel
(born 1969)
25 November 2018 5 years, 235 days General Secretary of the French Communist Party (1921–1994)
 India CPI-M-flag.svg
General Secretary of the Communist Party of India
D.Raja M.P.JPG D. Raja
(born 1949)
21 July 2019 4 years, 364 days N/A [1]
CPI-M-flag.svg
General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Yechuri 1.JPG Sitaram Yechury
(born 1952)
19 April 2015 9 years, 92 days N/A [2][3]
 Italy Partito Comunista Italiano (2016).svg
General Secretary of the Italian Communist Party
Mauro Alboresi 26 June 2016 8 years, 24 days N/A
 Japan Flag of JCP.svg
General Secretary of the Japanese Communist Party
Kazuo Shii in SL Square in 2017.jpg Kazuo Shii
(born 1954)
24 November 2000 23 years, 239 days N/A
 North Korea WPK symbol.svg
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea
Kim and Trump standing next to each other (cropped).jpg Kim Jong-un
(born c. 1982)
11 April 2012 12 years, 100 days Chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (1946–1966)
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (1966–1997)
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (1997–2012)
First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (2012–2016)
Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea (2016–2021)
 Laos Flag of LPRP.svg
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
Thongloun Sisoulith with Obamas cropped.jpg Thongloun Sisoulith
(born 1945)
15 January 2021 3 years, 187 days Chairman of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (1991–2006)
 Portugal Portuguese Communist Party logo.svg
General Secretary of the Portuguese Communist Party
Paulo Raimundo, Conferência Nacional do PCP 2022 (cropped).png Paulo Raimundo
(born 1976)
12 November 2022 1 year, 251 days N/A
 Russia КПРФ Logo.svg
First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
Gennady Zyuganov, 2013.jpeg Gennady Zyuganov
(born 1944)
14 February 1993 31 years, 157 days N/A
 Spain Pce 2014.svg
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain
(Enrique Santiago) (1 de mayo de 2018) IMG 0416 (41134553744) (cropped).jpg Enrique Santiago
(born 1964)
8 April 2018 6 years, 103 days N/A
 United Kingdom General Secretary of the Communist Party of Britain Robert Griffiths, Britain Needs Socialism, 2011.jpg Robert Griffiths
(born 1952)
1 January 1998 26 years, 201 days N/A
 United States CPUSA.svg
General Secretary of the Communist Party USA
Rossana Cambron & Joe Sims
(as co-chairs)
23 June 2019 5 years, 27 days N/A
 Vietnam Communist Party of Vietnam flag logo.svg
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam
Mr. Nguyen Phu Trong.jpg Nguyễn Phú Trọng
(born 1944)
8 January 2011 13 years, 194 days Chairman of the Workers' Party of Vietnam (1951–69)
First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Vietnam (1951–76)
GreeceGreece [[File:{{sym}}: Unknown first parameter | 16px]] General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece Koytsoympas 0.jpg Dimitris Koutsoubas
(born 1955)
14 April 2013 11 years, 97 days Chairman/President

(Unofficial)

AustraliaAustralia [[File:{{sym}}: Unknown first parameter | 16px]] General Secretary of the Communist Party of Australia Andrew Irving
(unknown birth date)
14 April 2019 5 years, 97 days N/A

Leaders of former communist parties

Official title Last Term end Other names
 First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania Template:Country data People's Socialist Republic of Albania Ramiz Alia

Ramiz Alia (i ri).jpg

4 May 1991
Bandera del Partido Comunista Búlgaro.png General Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party Template:Country data People's Republic of Bulgaria Petar Mladenov

Petar Mladenov 1978 (cropped).jpg

15 January 1990
Emblem of the Communist Party of Kampuchea.svg General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea Pol Pot

Pol Pot.jpg

8 December 1981
Flag of PRPB.svg General Secretary of the People's Revolutionary Party of Benin Benin Mathieu Kérékou

Mathieu Kerekou FOCR (cropped).jpg

1 March 1990
 General Secretary of the New Jewel Movement Grenada Maurice Bishop

Maurice Bishop 1982-06-11.jpg

19 October 1983
 General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Ethiopia Ethiopia Mengistu Haile Mariam

Mengistu Haile Mariam 4.jpg

21 May 1991
General Secretary of the Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party Somalia Siad Barre

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26 January 1991
Emblem of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan.svg General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan Afghanistan Mohammad Najibullah

Mohammad Najibullah 1986.jpg

16 April 1992
PCUS Emblema.svg General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev

RIAN archive 850809 General Secretary of the CPSU CC M. Gorbachev (crop).jpg

24 August 1991 Technical Secretary of the Bolshevik Party (1917–18)
Chairman of the Secretariat of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1918–19)
Responsible Secretary of the RCP(b) (1919–22)
First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1953–66)
General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party Template:Country data Hungarian People's Republic Károly Grósz

Grósz Károly 1986.jpg

7 October 1989
Emblem of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.svg First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Template:Country data Czechoslovak Socialist Republic Karel Urbánek 20 December 1989
POL PZPR logo.svg First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party Polish People's Republic Mieczysław Rakowski

Mieczysław Rakowski.jpg

29 January 1990
Coat of arms of PCR.svg General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party Socialist Republic of Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu

Nicolae Ceaușescu.jpg

22 December 1989
SED Logo.svg General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany East Germany Egon Krenz

Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1984-0704-400, Egon Krenz.jpg

3 December 1989
Emblem of the SKJ.svg President of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia Template:Country data Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Milan Pančevski 30 June 1990

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