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. 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
Took office Time in office
 China
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party		 Xi Jinping
(born 1953)		 15 November 2012 9 years, 170 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 1 year, 15 days N/A
 Cyprus General Secretary of the Progressive Party of Working People Andros Kyprianou
(born 1955)		 21 February 2009 13 years, 72 days N/A
 France
National Secretary of the French Communist Party		 Fabien Roussel
(born 1969)		 25 November 2018 3 years, 157 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 2 years, 286 days N/A

General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)		 Sitaram Yechury
(born 1952)		 19 April 2015 7 years, 15 days N/A
 Italy
General Secretary of the Italian Communist Party		 Mauro Alboresi 26 June 2016 5 years, 312 days N/A
 Japan
General Secretary of the Japanese Communist Party		 Kazuo Shii
(born 1954)		 24 November 2000 21 years, 161 days N/A
 North Korea
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea		 Kim Jong-un
(born c. 1982)		 11 April 2012 10 years, 23 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 1 year, 109 days Chairman of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (1991–2006)
 Portugal
General Secretary of the Portuguese Communist Party		 Jerónimo de Sousa
(born 1947)		 27 November 2004 17 years, 158 days N/A
 Russia
First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation		 Gennady Zyuganov
(born 1944)		 14 February 1993 29 years, 79 days N/A
 Spain
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain		 Enrique Santiago
(born 1964)		 8 April 2018 4 years, 26 days N/A
 United Kingdom General Secretary of the Communist Party of Britain Robert Griffiths
(born 1952)		 1 January 1998 24 years, 123 days N/A
 United States
General Secretary of the Communist Party USA		 Rossana Cambron & Joe Sims
(as co-chairs)		 23 June 2019 2 years, 315 days N/A
 Vietnam
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam		 Nguyễn Phú Trọng
(born 1944)		 8 January 2011 11 years, 116 days Chairman of the Workers' Party of Vietnam (1951–69)
First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Vietnam (1951–76)

Leaders of former communist parties
Official titleLastTerm endOther names
 First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania Ramiz Alia

4 May 1991
 General Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party 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 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 Milan Pančevski 30 June 1990

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