The Constitutional and Legal Development of the Chinese Presidency by Runhua Zhang;Pendleton Michael D.;

Author:Runhua, Zhang;Pendleton, Michael D.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Mao Zedong’s Resumption of Two Fronts

Mao Zedong’s Failed Attempt to Resign

After learning Khrushchev’s report about Stalin, Mao Zedong thought more about state affairs and decided to resume his old idea of two fronts,[31] which had previously been interrupted by the incident of Gao Gang and Rao Sushi. As early as in the middle of 1956 when preparing for the CCP’s forthcoming Eighth National Congress, Mao Zedong suggested resigning from the office of the chairman, then the party’s chairmanship later, indicating a two-step plan of succession. He told his senior party colleagues that he did not want to take a second term. Although his partners had discussed and held that “it is feasible in the future when time is ripe,” his request had been rejected because they thought “it is not for now.”[32]

However, partly because it was so burdensome to be chairman, and partly in view of the succession of the CCP’s leadership, Mao Zedong soon repeatedly demanded he not be elected for a second term.[33] He made his idea public in the Twelfth Supreme State Conference on April 30, 1957, when he told the participating members of democratic parties that:

I must resign the state chairman in the second National People’s Congress next year to reduce my workload so that I can focus on some major issues. Switzerland has a seven-member committee, with the president rotating among them. We can also rotate in several years and adopt the policy of getting out gradually.[34]

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