Today (March 11), the closing session of the National People’s Congress of the Communist Party of China (NPC) passed the Organic Law of the NPC. Some analysts say that this move by the Chinese Communist Party will make Xi Jinping‘s power more centralized.
Today (March 11), the closing session of the National People’s Congress passed the Organic Law of the National People’s Congress. Some analysts say that this move by the CCP to completely partyize the NPC is a move by Xi Jinping to continue to centralize power.
In the afternoon of March 11, the closing ceremony of the fourth session of the 13th National People’s Congress (NPC) passed the draft of the Organic Law on amending the NPC. This is the first Time in 38 years that this law has been amended since it was rewritten and adopted in 1982.
The revised Organic Law allows the NPC Standing Committee to appoint and remove the leadership of the State Council between sessions, not only to decide on the selection of ministers, but also to appoint and remove “other members of the State Council,” including vice premiers and state councilors.
Previously, vice premiers and state councilors were appointed and removed only after a vote by the National People’s Congress, not between sessions.
On the 11th, Hong Kong‘s Apple Daily said that an analysis said that the CPC’s amendment to the Organic Law is to prepare for the leadership system of the CPC General Secretary Xi Jinping after his re-election at the 20th National Congress next year; at the same time, the NPC will be completely party-oriented. Another analysis said that the leadership of the State Council may change at any time after the amendment.
Earlier, Shanxi constitutional scholar Wang Zhiqiang told Radio Free Asia that, on the surface, the Organic Law has expanded the power of the NPC Standing Committee, but in reality, it is still under the leadership of the Communist Party, and everything is decided by the Communist Party, and the NPC is still a “rubber stamp”.
Commentator Wang He recently wrote that the CCP authorities use the “flexibility” of the NPC Standing Committee to prepare for emergencies; without special events, the current leadership of the CCP (Politburo) is unlikely to undergo personnel changes, and this move by the Xi authorities is mainly an institutional centralization of power, pushing it deeper and deeper; Xi Jinping’s control of the “key minority” has formed a relatively complete system, and it can be said that Xi’s centralization of power reached a peak before the 20th National Congress.
According to current affairs commentator Li Linyi, the CCP’s elections of its so-called key government officials are all internalized by the top brass, and the results have been arranged long ago, and the so-called “voting” of the NPC deputies is just a formality.
U.S.-based current affairs commentator Zheng Haochang shares the same view as Li Linyi, saying that the Standing Committee of the CPC National People’s Congress (NPC) is internally determined by the top echelon of the Communist Party, and that the NPC Standing Committee is not empowered by this, and that Li Keqiang cannot decide who the Vice Premier should be.
Zheng also believes that the CCP’s move is intended to deter senior officials in the CCP’s inner circle, meaning that if these senior officials do not listen, Xi Jinping can replace them at any time, and then the NPC Standing Committee can rubber-stamp them.
According to Gobi Dong, a US-based independent scholar and columnist, this is actually a move by Xi Jinping to continue to centralize power; the NPC legislation is just some modern terminology and organizational form used and played by the CCP.
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