General Secretary of the Communist Party
General Secretary or First Secretary is the official title of leaders of most Communist political 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.
Leaders of current Communist parties
Official title | Incumbent | Term start | Other names |
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General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China | Xi Jinping
|
15 November 2012 | Chairman of the Communist Party of China (1922–25 & 1943–82) |
Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea | Kim Jong-un
|
17 December 2011 | Chairman of the Worker's Party of Korea (1949–66) General Secretary of the Worker's Party of Korea (1966–2011) First Secretary of the Worker's Party of Korea (2012–2016) |
First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba | Raúl Castro
|
19 April 2011 | |
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam | Nguyễn Phú Trọng
|
8 January 2012 | Chairman of the Workers' Party of Vietnam (1951–69) First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Vietnam (1951–76) |
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party | Choummaly Sayasone
|
21 March 2006 (1st term) 21 March 2011 (2nd term) |
Chairman of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (1991–2006) |
General Secretary of the Progressive Party of Working People | Andros Kyprianou
|
21 February 2009 | |
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Britain | Robert Griffiths
|
1 January 1998 | |
First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation | Gennady Zyuganov
|
14 February 1993 | |
General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) | Sitaram Yechury | 19 April 2015 | |
General Secretary of the Communist Party USA | John Bachtell
|
15 June 2014 | |
General Secretary of the Portuguese Communist Party | Jerónimo de Sousa
|
27 November 2004 |
Leaders of former Communist parties
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