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Most provincial-level governors and party chiefs also have prior experience as a member of a provincial-level standing committee. Certain standing committee seats are seen as having more weight than others, solely due to promotion structure and conventions that have congealed over the years.
The Provincial Executive Committees (PECs) of the African National Congress (ANC) are the chief executive organs of the party's nine provincial branches. Comprising the so-called “Top Five” provincial officials and up to 30 additional elected members, each is structured similarly to the party's National Executive Committee (NEC) and is elected every four years at party provincial conferences.
Each province has a unicameral provincial legislature, varying in size from 30 to 80 members depending on the population of the province. The members of the provincial legislature are elected by party-list proportional representation for a usual term of five years, although under certain circumstances the legislature may be dissolved before its term expires.
This is a list of current provincial leaders in the Provinces of China, including government leaders and Communist Party Committee Secretaries (labelled Party Secretary), leading Provincial party standing committees; provincial legislature speakers (directors of province-level People's Congress Standing Committees (人大常委会主任) or ...
A premier in South Africa's provinces is the head of the provincial government. This position mirrors the president's role at the national level, functioning as the chief executive and leading the province's executive council.
Leadership and staff of national bodies (e.g. government agencies, National People's Congress, etc.) Leadership and staff of the Chinese Communist Party or officially sanctioned minor parties and their organs; Active-duty military personnel ranking platoon-level or higher (like a political commissar)
The original four provinces of South Africa (the provinces that existed from 1910 to 1994) had provincial councils elected by the white population of the provinces. The provincial councils were weak; they appointed an executive council (a provincial cabinet) but could not appoint or remove the Administrator (the executive head) of the province.
The head of each province is a non-executive Governor appointed by the President. [1]: 68 The Governors play a similar role, at the provincial level, as the President does at the federal level. Each province has a directly elected unicameral legislature (provincial assembly), with members elected for five-year terms.