Xi Jinping on Friday became the President of China for the third time, becoming the first country’s longest-serving leader since founding father Mao Zedong. Xi becomes the first leader to outlive Deng Xiaoping’s two-term cap.

The National People’s Congress (NPC), approved Xi Jinping’s election as president by a margin of almost 3,000 votes.

According to the reports, there was no other candidate in the fray. Xi was also chosen to lead China’s Central Military Commission for a third term. Also, the 2 million-member People’s Liberation Army, which officially obeys party rather than national orders, was unanimously appointed under Xi as its leader.

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The National People’s Congress is dominated by the Communist Party and is widely viewed as a rubber-stamp body.

The Communist Party of China elected the 69-year-old to a record-tying third term as general secretary in October. His re-election is a break from tradition as only party founder Mao Zedong had been elected for a third term in the post.

It is significant to note that in 2018, Xi Jinping personally lifted the restriction on the number of presidential terms. Hence, Xi Jinping will be able to continue leading China until his resignation, demise, or removal.

Moreover, Han Zheng was chosen as the new vice president and Zhao Leji was chosen as the next parliament chair by China’s legislature. They both belonged to Xi’s former group of party officials at the Politburo Standing Committee.

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Ram Chandra Paudel has been elected as the new President of Nepal. The 78-year-old leader on Thursday won the Presidential election after receiving nearly two-thirds of the votes. The voting took place at the country’s parliamentary building in New Baneshwar in Kathmandu.

According to Nepal’s Election Commission, Paudel, a candidate of Tanahun-1 constituency, secured 33,802 electoral votes while his rival Subash Chandra Nembwang secured 15,518 electoral votes out of 52,628 votes. 214 members of the parliament and 352 representatives from the provincial assemblies voted in favour of Poudel.

A total of 882 people, including 332 members of parliament, including 275 members of the House of Representatives, 59 of the National Assembly, and 550 representatives from each of the seven provincial assemblies, voted to elect the president.

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Nepali Congress leader Paudel was a common candidate of the eight-party alliance that included the CPN (Maoist Center) while his rival Subash Chandra Nembang was the sole candidate from CPN-UML.

Nepali Congress chief Sher Bahadur Deuba congratulated Paudel for becoming the third President of the country. He tweeted, Hearty congratulations to my friend Ram Candra Poudelji for being elected as the President.

This is the third presidential election in Nepal since the country became a republic in 2008.

Paudel has earlier served as Deputy Prime Minister and Speaker of the House of Representatives of Nepal. Poudel has also served as Acting President of the Nepali Congress after the death of party president Sushil Koirala.

Poudel received the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun from Japan for his contributions to enhancing Nepal-Japan ties in 2020.

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Protesters clashed with the police in Pakistan’s Islamabad, Wednesday, during the annual Aurat March on the International Women’s Day.

As per reports, clashes broke out outside the Islamabad Press Club as women and transgenders from gathered for the Aurat March rally. The attendees were allegedly thrashed with batons by the local police after a verbal altercation between the rally participants and the cops turned violent.

According to the Pakistan police, large number of transgenders were trying to join the rally leading to a verbal spat between law enforcement sleuths and march participants.

Women protesters alleged that the police had tried hard to “stop the rally” as participants raised slogans in favour of women’s rights and were joined by transgenders, whom the police stopped for questioning.

As per a Geo News report, this led to a loud verbal spat outside the Islamabad Press Club with the marchers raising anti-government and anti-media slogans. The situation soon devolved into scuffle and police reportedly used batons to disperse the protesters.

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 A women reporter and a cameraman from a local news channel also sustained injuries in the clashes.

Federal Minister for Climate Change Sherry Rehman who participated in the rally, strongly condemned the violence. Rehman wrote on Twitter: “Friends from Aurat Azadi March are rightly upset. The Islamabad police had NO business laathi charging a small peaceful procession. It is the women holding laathis that need to be pushed back, not progressive women. Sad to see this happening. Will seek an inquiry.”

In another tweet, the Minister expressed her condemnation of the violence and said she had sought an inquiry into the incident, adding that the matter has been brought to the Interior Minister’s notice.

Several rights bodies and influential people condemned the police action against women protesters during the march.

In a tweet, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) expressed outrage and said it deplores the use of force by the police against the marchers. The HRCP also expressed concerned over reports of religious organizations trying to hinder women from taking part in the march.

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