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1st LD: Raul Castro re-elected as first secretary of Cuba's Communist Party

Xinhua, April 20, 2016 Adjust font size:

Cuban leader Raul Castro on Tuesday was reelected as the First Secretary of the Central Committee of Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) at the the final plenary session of PCC's seventh Congress, Cuba's official state news agency Prensa Latina reported.

Raul Castro won the re-election by nearly 1,000 delegates attending the meeting, including the leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro, his elder brother, said Prensa Latina.

Raul had served as the First Secretary of the PCC since its last Congress held in 2011, when he replaced his elder brother Fidel.

Fidel Castro directed PCC's political organization since its founding in 1965, but a severe illness forced him to leave his political and government duties in 2006.

The PCC Central Committee also ratified Dr. Jose Ramon Machado Ventura in his position as Second Secretary of PCC. Endit