China’s ruling Communist party has proposed removing the two-term limit for the presidency, potentially paving the way for Xi Jinping to remain in office beyond 2023.
Official news agency Xinhua said on Sunday that the recommendation to remove term limits on the presidency and vice-presidency had been made by the party’s Central Committee, which is comprised of China’s top 200 communist officials.
China’s state constitution currently limits the president and vice-president to two terms of five years each. Removing the limits would reverse a trend begun four decades ago by Deng Xiaoping, who sought to institutionalise peaceful transitions of power after thirty years of increasingly arbitrary rule under Mao Zedong
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