General Secretary of the Communist Party

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.

## Contents

* 1 Leaders of current communist parties
* 2 Leaders of former communist parties
* 3 See also
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## Leaders of current communist parties

Country  | Official title  | Portrait  | Name  | Term of office  | Other names  | Ref.

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Took office  | Time in office
China  |
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party |  | Xi Jinping
(born 1953) | 15 November 2012  | 13 years, 236 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
(born 1960) | 19 April 2021  | 5 years, 81 days  | N/A  |
Cyprus  | General Secretary of the Progressive Party of Working People |  | Stefanos Stefanou
(born 1965) | 4 July 2021  | 5 years, 5 days  | N/A
France  |
National Secretary of the French Communist Party |  | Fabien Roussel
(born 1969) | 25 November 2018  | 7 years, 223 days  | General Secretary of the French Communist Party (1921–1994) |
India  |
General Secretary of the Communist Party of India |  | D. Raja
(born 1949) | 21 July 2019  | 6 years, 352 days  | N/A  | [1]

General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) |  | Sitaram Yechury
(born 1952) | 19 April 2015  | 11 years, 81 days  | N/A  | [2][3]
Italy  |
General Secretary of the Italian Communist Party |  | Mauro Alboresi | 26 June 2016  | 10 years, 13 days  | N/A  |
Japan  |
General Secretary of the Japanese Communist Party |  | Kazuo Shii
(born 1954) | 24 November 2000  | 25 years, 227 days  | N/A  |
North Korea  |
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea |  | Kim Jong-un
(born c. 1982) | 11 April 2012  | 14 years, 89 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  |
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party |  | Thongloun Sisoulith
(born 1945) | 15 January 2021  | 5 years, 175 days  | Chairman of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (1991–2006) |
Portugal  |
General Secretary of the Portuguese Communist Party |  | Paulo Raimundo
(born 1976) | 12 November 2022  | 3 years, 239 days  | N/A  |
Russia  |
First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation |  | Gennady Zyuganov
(born 1944) | 14 February 1993  | 33 years, 145 days  | N/A  |
Spain  |
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain |  | Enrique Santiago
(born 1964) | 8 April 2018  | 8 years, 92 days  | N/A  |
United Kingdom  | General Secretary of the Communist Party of Britain |  | Robert Griffiths
(born 1952) | 1 January 1998  | 28 years, 189 days  | N/A  |
United States  |
General Secretary of the Communist Party USA |  | Rossana Cambron & Joe Sims
(as co-chairs) | 23 June 2019  | 7 years, 16 days  | N/A  |
Vietnam  |
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam |  | Nguyễn Phú Trọng
(born 1944) | 8 January 2011  | 15 years, 182 days  | Chairman of the Workers' Party of Vietnam (1951–69)
First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Vietnam (1951–76) |
Greece  | [[File:`{{sym}}`: Unknown first parameter | 16px]] General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece  |  | Dimitris Koutsoubas
(born 1955) | 14 April 2013  | 13 years, 86 days  | Chairman/President

(Unofficial)

Australia | [[File:`{{sym}}`: Unknown first parameter | 16px]] General Secretary of the Communist Party of Australia  |  | Andrew Irving
(unknown birth date) | 14 April 2019  | 7 years, 86 days  | N/A

## Leaders of former communist parties

Official title | Last | Term end | Other names

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First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania | Template:Country data People's Socialist Republic of Albania Ramiz Alia

| 4 May 1991  |
General Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party | Template:Country data People's Republic of Bulgaria Petar Mladenov

| 15 January 1990  |
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea |  Pol Pot

| 8 December 1981  |
General Secretary of the People's Revolutionary Party of Benin |  Mathieu Kérékou

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

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

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

| 26 January 1991  |
General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan |  Mohammad Najibullah

| 16 April 1992  |
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union |  Mikhail Gorbachev

| 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 |  Károly Grósz

| 7 October 1989  |
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia | Template:Country data Czechoslovak Socialist Republic Karel Urbánek  | 20 December 1989  |
First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party |  Mieczysław Rakowski

| 29 January 1990  |
General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party |  Nicolae Ceaușescu

| 22 December 1989  |
General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany |  Egon Krenz

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

## See also

* Secretary (title)
* Secretary-general

## References

1. ↑ Correspondent, Special (2019-07-21). "D. Raja takes over as CPI general secretary" (in en-IN). The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/d-raja-takes-over-as-cpi-general-secretary/article28626860.ece.
2. ↑ IANS (2022-04-10). "Sitaram Yechury gets re-elected as CPI-M general secretary for third time" (in en). https://www.business-standard.com/article/politics/sitaram-yechury-gets-re-elected-as-cpi-m-general-secretary-for-third-time-122041000536_1.html.
3. ↑ "Sitaram Yechury re-elected as CPI(M) general secretary for third term" (in en). 2022-04-10. https://www.deccanherald.com/national/national-politics/sitaram-yechury-re-elected-as-cpim-general-secretary-for-third-term-1099418.html.

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