<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Honecker" id="mw8w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Erich Honecker">Erich Honecker</a> becomes <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadership_of_East_Germany#Leaders_of_the_Socialist_Unity_Party_of_Germany_(SED)" id="mw9A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Leadership of East Germany">First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany</a>, remaining in power until 1989.<sup about="#mwt53" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"}}' id="cite_ref-8" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./May_3#cite_note-8" id="mw9Q" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 8;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw9g">[8]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"><cite about="#mwt50" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFWinkler2007"><a href="./Heinrich_August_Winkler" id="mwBn8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Heinrich August Winkler">Winkler, Heinrich August</a> (2007). <i id="mwBoA">Germany: The Long Road West, Vol. 2: 1933–1990</i>. <a href="./Oxford_University_Press" id="mwBoE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Oxford University Press">Oxford University Press</a>. pp.<span id="mwBoI" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>266–268.</cite><span about="#mwt50" class="Z3988" id="mwBoM" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Germany%3A+The+Long+Road+West%2C+Vol.+2%3A+1933%E2%80%931990&amp;rft.pages=266-268&amp;rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&amp;rft.date=2007&amp;rft.aulast=Winkler&amp;rft.aufirst=Heinrich+August&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMay+3"></span></span>