General Secretary of the Communist Party

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 People's Republic of 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
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party		 Xi Jinping
(born 1953)		 15 November 2012 10 years, 344 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 2 years, 189 days —
 Cyprus General Secretary of the Progressive Party of Working People Stefanos Stefanou
(born 1965)		 4 July 2021 2 years, 113 days —
 France
National Secretary of the French Communist Party		 Fabien Roussel
(born 1969)		 25 November 2018 4 years, 331 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 4 years, 95 days — [1]

General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)		 Sitaram Yechury
(born 1952)		 19 April 2015 8 years, 189 days — [2][3]
 Italy
General Secretary of the Italian Communist Party		 Mauro Alboresi 26 June 2016 7 years, 121 days —
 Japan
General Secretary of the Japanese Communist Party		 Kazuo Shii
(born 1954)		 24 November 2000 22 years, 335 days —
 North Korea
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea		 Kim Jong-un
(born c. 1982)		 11 April 2012 11 years, 197 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 2 years, 283 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 347 days —
 Russia
First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation		 Gennady Zyuganov
(born 1944)		 14 February 1993 30 years, 253 days —
 Spain
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain		 Enrique Santiago
(born 1964)		 8 April 2018 5 years, 200 days —
 United Kingdom General Secretary of the Communist Party of Britain Robert Griffiths
(born 1952)		 1 January 1998 25 years, 297 days —
 United States
General Secretary of the Communist Party USA		 Rossana Cambron & Joe Sims
(as co-chairs)		 23 June 2019 4 years, 124 days —
 Vietnam
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam		 Nguyễn Phú Trọng
(born 1944)		 8 January 2011 12 years, 290 days Chairman of the Workers' Party of Vietnam (1951–69)
First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Vietnam (1951–76)
GreeceGreece General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece Dimitris Koutsoubas
(born 1955)		 14 April 2013 10 years, 194 days Chairman/President

(Unofficial)

AustraliaAustralia General Secretary of the Communist Party of Australia Andrew Irving
(unknown birth date)		 14 April 2019 4 years, 194 days —

Leaders of former communist parties
Official titleLastTerm endOther names
 First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania People's Socialist Republic of Albania Ramiz Alia

4 May 1991
 General Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party 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 Benin Mathieu Kérékou

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

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

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

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

16 April 1992
 General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 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 Hungarian People's Republic Károly Grósz

7 October 1989
 First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Czechoslovak Socialist Republic Karel Urbánek 20 December 1989
 First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party Polish People's Republic Mieczysław Rakowski

29 January 1990
 General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party Socialist Republic of Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu

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

3 December 1989
 President of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Milan Pančevski 30 June 1990

See also

References
  1. Correspondent, Special (2019-07-21). "D. Raja takes over as CPI general secretary". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2022-12-08.
  2. IANS (2022-04-10). "Sitaram Yechury gets re-elected as CPI-M general secretary for third time". www.business-standard.com. Retrieved 2022-12-08.
  3. "Sitaram Yechury re-elected as CPI(M) general secretary for third term". Deccan Herald. 2022-04-10. Retrieved 2022-12-08.
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