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Former Chinese President Hu Jintao was escorted out of the venue where the closing ceremony of the Communist Party Congress was being held on Saturday, a highly unusual incident. The state media did not explain the reasons for his withdrawal or broadcast the scene, which was recorded by journalists.
Hu, 79, weak-looking, was invited by aides to leave the grounds of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, where he was sitting in the front row with his successor and current Chinese president Xi Jinping.
The authorities did not give any official explanation for what happened.
In the images, an assistant is seen trying to grab the former president’s arm, but he refuses. The man then tries to lift him by the armpits, but the politician, who led the country between 2003 and 2013, continues to resist.
At that moment, Hu tries to grab some documents from his desk, which appear to belong to the Chinese leader. Xi Jinping holds them firmly.
Getting up, Hu Jintao has a brief exchange with Xi Jinping, who responds without looking at him, and with Prime Minister Li Keqiang, whom he gives a friendly pat on the shoulder. The other attendees don’t seem fazed.
The scene came shortly after the press entered the venue and just before the unanimous vote by some 2,300 Chinese Communist Party delegates to include Xi Jinping’s “central role” in the party’s statutes.
Hu, who retired in 2013, appeared last Sunday for the opening ceremony of the congress looking very old and with completely gray hair.
On Saturday afternoon, the name “Hu Jintao” appeared to be censored on the Weibo social network. There was only information from the day before released by official accounts.
Xi Jinping, 69, is due to be confirmed this weekend as general secretary of the party, before his re-election in 2023 as president of the country, in an unprecedented third term.
with AFP
