party congress
Delegates gather formally
A party congress is a formal assembly of delegates from a political party, convened to set policy, elect leadership, or ratify decisions.
The term appears most often in reference to communist and socialist parties: The Communist Party holds its congress every five years.
In one-party states, the party congress functions as a major political event with national implications.
- central committeeExecutive governing body
- general secretaryTop organizational officer
- voteFormal choice expression
- show of handsVoting by lifting arms
- presidiumCommunist executive committee
delegates · great hall · speech · keynote address · communist · red banner · executive council · grassroots mobilization · agenda setting · Marxism · Leninism · socialism · Soviet Union · voting · kremlin · strategic planning · comrade · platform
party congresscaucus
Party selection meeting
working group · ad hoc committee · backroom deal · smoke-filled room
party congressexecutive order
Binding directive from leadership