| General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party | |
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| ເລຂາທິການໃຫຍ່ຄະນະບໍລິຫານງານສູນກາງພັກປະຊາຊົນປະຕິວັດລາວ | |
 Emblem of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party | |
| Lao People's Revolutionary Party | |
| Style | Comrade (Formal) |
| Type | Party leader Supreme leader |
| Appointer | Central Committee |
| Term length | 5 years |
| Formation | 22 March 1955 |
| First holder | Kaysone Phomvihane |
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party is the office of the highest-ranking member of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP). Since the party's takeover in 1975, its leader has been the supreme leader of Laos.[1] The General Secretary is also the Chairman of the Defense and Public Security Commission, the commander-in-chief of the Lao People's Armed Forces. From 1991 to 2006, the office was titled Chairman of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party. The Party's Central Committee elects the General Secretary. The General Secretary usually also becomes President of Laos eventually, though from 1975 to 1991 and from 1992 to 1998 he was usually Prime Minister.
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Officeholders
| No.[a] | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Central Committee(s) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | ||||
| General Secretary | ||||||
| 1 | 
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Kaysone Phomvihane (1920–1992) |
22 March 1955 | 29 March 1991 | 36 years, 7 days | I–II–III–IV (1955–1991) |
| Chairman | ||||||
| 1 |
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Kaysone Phomvihane (1920–1992) |
29 March 1991 | 21 November 1992 | 1 year, 237 days | V (1991–1996) |
| 2 | 
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Khamtai Siphandon (born 1924) |
24 November 1992 | 21 March 2006 | 13 years, 117 days | V–VI–VII (1991–2006) |
| General Secretary | ||||||
| 3 | 
|
Choummaly Sayasone (born 1936) |
21 March 2006 | 22 January 2016 | 9 years, 307 days | VIII–IX (2006–2016) |
| 4 | 
|
Bounnhang Vorachith (born 1937) |
22 January 2016 | 15 January 2021 | 4 years, 359 days | X (2016–2021) |
| 5 | 
|
Thongloun Sisoulith (born 1945) |
15 January 2021 | Incumbent | 2 years, 357 days | XI (2021–2026) |
Notes
- ^ These numbers are not official.
References
- ^ Mark A. Lamport (2018). Encyclopedia of Christianity in the Global South. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 446. ISBN 978-1-4422-7157-9.
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