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{{Short description|Highest-ranking official in Chechnya, Russia}}
{{Infobox official post
| post = Head
| body = the Chechen Republic
| native_name = {{smaller|{{native name|ce|Мехкада Нохчийн Республика}}<br />{{native name|ru|Глава Чеченской Республики}}}}
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| flag = Standard of the President of the Chechen Republic.svg
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| flagborder = yes
| flagcaption = Standard of the head of the Chechen Republic
| image = Рамзан Кадыров (13-03-2023).jpg
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| incumbent = [[Ramzan Kadyrov]]
| acting = 
| incumbentsince = 15 February 2007
| department = Executive Department of Chechen Republic
| style = His Excellency (formal)<br />Sir (informal)
| type = [[Head of state]]<br />[[Head of government]]
| status = 
| abbreviation = 
| member_of = 
| reports_to = 
| residence = [[Grozny]], Chechnya
| seat = 
| nominator = Political parties
| appointer = [[Election|Popular vote]]
| appointer_qualified = 
| termlength = Five years; renewable optional
| termlength_qualified = 
| constituting_instrument = the [[Constitution of the Chechen Republic|Constitution]]
| precursor = [[President of Ichkeria]]
| formation = 5 October 2003
| first = [[Akhmad Kadyrov]]
| last = 
| abolished = 
| superseded_by = 
| succession = 
| unofficial_names = 
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| salary = 80,000 ${{cn|date=May 2025}}
| website = {{url|http://chechnya.gov.ru }}
| footnotes = 
}}

The '''head of the Chechen Republic''' or '''head of Chechnya''' ({{langx|ce|Мехкада Нохчийн Республика|Mehkada Nohçiyn Respublika}}; {{langx|ru|Глава Чеченской Республики|Glava Chechenskoy Respubliki}} ; formerly '''president of the Chechen Republic''' or '''president of Chechnya''' until 5 March 2011) is the highest office within the [[Politics of Chechnya|political system]] of the [[Chechnya|Chechen Republic]], as [[head of state]] and [[head of government]] of Chechnya. The office was instituted in 2003 during the course of the [[Second Chechen War]], when the [[Politics of Russia|Russian federal government]] regained control over the region and after a constitutional referendum approved the current [[Constitution of the Chechen Republic]].

==Eligibility==
According to the article 66 of the [[Constitution of the Chechen Republic]], a citizen of [[Russia]], no younger than thirty years old, may be elected Head. The term is for five years, with no limits on serving multiple terms (prior to the [[2007 Chechen constitutional referendum|2007 constitutional referendum]] the Head was elected for four years, with a two term limit). The Head is not allowed to be at the same time a deputy of the [[Parliament of the Chechen Republic]], or deputy of a representative body of local self-government.

==Presidents and heads of the Chechen Republic==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
! rowspan=2| {{Abbr|No.|Number}}
! rowspan=2| Portrait
! rowspan=2| Name<br />{{small|(birth–death)}}
! colspan=3| Term of office
! colspan=2 rowspan=2| Party
! rowspan=2| Election
|-
! Took office
! Left office
! Time in office
|-
| '''1'''
| [[File:Akhmad Kadyrov crop.png|80px]]
| [[Akhmad Kadyrov]]<br />{{small|(1951–2004)}}
| 5 October 2003
| 9 May 2004<br />{{small|''([[2004 Grozny stadium bombing|Assassinated]])''}}
| {{ayd|2003|11|05|2004|05|09}}
| rowspan=3 style="background:{{party color|Independent politician}}| 
| rowspan=3 | [[Independent politician|Independent]]
| [[2003 Chechen head election|2003]]
|-style="background:#e6e6aa;"
| '''—'''
| [[File:Sergey Abramov (cropped).jpg|80px]]
| [[Sergey Abramov (politician)|Sergey Abramov]]<br />{{small|(born 1972)<br />''acting''}}
| 9 May 2004
| 30 August 2004
| {{ayd|2004|05|09|2004|08|30}}
| –
|-
| '''2'''
| [[File:Alu Alkhanov.jpg|80px]]
| [[Alu Alkhanov]]<br />{{small|(born 1957)}}
| 30 August 2004
| 15 February 2007
| {{ayd|2004|08|30|2007|02|15}}
| [[2004 Chechen head election|2004]]
|-
| '''3'''
| [[File:Рамзан Кадыров (13-03-2023).jpg|80px]]
| [[Ramzan Kadyrov]]<br />{{small|(born 1976)}}
| 15 February 2007
| ''Incumbent''
| {{ayd|2007|02|15}}
| style="background:{{party color|United Russia}}| 
| [[United Russia]]
| [[2016 Chechen head election|2016]]<br />[[2021 Chechen head election|2021]]
|}

The latest election for the post was held on [[2021 Chechen head election|19 September 2021]].

{|class="wikitable sortable"
!Candidates
!Party
!Votes
!%
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[Ramzan Kadyrov]]
| style="text-align:left;"| [[United Russia]]
| 711,973
| 99.70
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| Isa Khadzhimuradov
| style="text-align:left;"| [[A Just Russia — For Truth]]
| 1,064
| 0.15
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| Khalid Nakayev
| style="text-align:left;"| [[Communist Party of the Russian Federation|Communist Party]]
| 835
| 0.12
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="2"| Blank ballots
| 237
| 0.03
|- style="font-weight:bold"
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="2"| Total
| 714,109
| 100.00
|-
| style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" colspan="5"|
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="2"| Turnout
| 714,109
| 94.61
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="2"| Registered voters
| 754,790
| 100.00
|}

==Timeline==
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==See also==
*[[List of leaders of Communist Chechnya]]
*[[List of leaders of Chechnya (1991–present)]]
*[[President of Ichkeria]]

==Sources==
*[http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Russian_republics.htm#Chechnya] World Statesmen.org
{{Governors of federal subjects of Russia}}

[[Category:Heads of the Chechen Republic| ]]
[[Category:Politics of Chechnya]]
[[Category:Lists of heads of the federal subjects of Russia|Chechen]]