faction Leader means just one faction?

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edit: Since you guys responded so fast I'll put my old question back in here in a second:P

The faction creation rules state that a "character" may only be in one faction, but a "player" may have characters in multiple factions. Simple enough and we all take advantage of this I think.

But further down in that post there is this part:

I. How to create basic faction, clan, group without affiliation or home system?

1) Each faction has only one leader. When creating a faction, leader cannot be member of any other faction. Leader must also have at least one character of level 50 or above.

Is this assuming the Leader is a character or a player? If Leader = Character then I'm free to retain characters in other factions right? If Leader = Player then I'd be restricted to only having characters in the faction I lead, correct?

Search didn't come up with anything to clarify this for me.

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