Information about the word predecessor (English → Esperanto: antaŭulo)

When Trump made the unsubstantiated claim on Twitter that his predecessor had wiretapped him in the waning days of the 2016 election, it diverted attention from the growing body of undisputed reports that his surrogates and staffers had met with the Russian ambassador before and after the election.

It was here that Mr. Gorbačëv’s predecessors, Soviet leaders like Lenin, Stalin and Brežnev, lay in state, too.