List of heads of state of Burkina Faso
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The president of Burkina Faso (Template:Langx) is the head of state of Burkina Faso as well as the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Burkina Faso. It is the highest office in Burkina Faso and has significant executive power, including appointing the prime minister and other government officials. The president also has the power to dissolve parliament and issue decrees.
The office was first established in August 1960 as president of Upper Volta (Template:Langx) after the country gained independence from France. Maurice Yaméogo was the first holder of that office. On 4 August 1984, the day before the 24th anniversary of independence, Thomas Sankara, who was the president from exactly one year earlier, became the president of Burkina Faso after the country changed its name the same day.
A total of seven people have served as president of Upper Volta/Burkina Faso (not counting four transitional heads of state/presidents and one acting president in rebellion).
The current interim president is Capt. Ibrahim Traoré, who took power during a coup d'état on 30 September 2022.[1]
Term of office
The president is elected directly to a five-year term. Following amendments in the constitution in 2000, the president should serve no more than two terms even though the term limit has not been met by any president yet.[2]
Titles
- 1960–1980: President of the Republic
- 1980–1982: President of Military Committee of Recovery for National Progress
- 1982: Chairman of Provisional Committee of Popular Salvation
- 1982–1983: Head of State
- 1983–1987: Chairman of National Revolutionary Council and Head of State
- 1987–1991: President of Popular Front and Head of State
- 1991–2014: President of the Republic
- 2015: Chairman of National Council for Democracy
- 2015–2022: President of the Republic
- 2022–present: President of the Patriotic Movement for Safeguard and Restoration
- 2022–present: President of the Republic
List of officeholders
- Political parties
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| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Elected | Term of office | Political party | Prime minister(s) | |||
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| Took office | Left office | Time in office | |||||||
| Republic of Upper Volta | |||||||||
| 1 | File:Maurice Yaméogo, 1960.jpg | Maurice Yaméogo (1921–1993)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
1959 1965 |
5 August 1960 | 3 January 1966 (deposed)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Ayd | style="background:Template:Party color;" | | UDV–RDA | Position not established |
| 2 | File:Sangoulé Lamizana 1971.png | Sangoulé Lamizana (1916–2005)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
1978 | 3 January 1966 | 25 November 1980 (deposed)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Ayd | style="background:Template:Party color;" | | Military / Independent |
Ouédraogo Himself Conombo |
| 3 | File:Saye Zerbo with U.S. ambassador (cropped).png | Saye Zerbo (1932–2013)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
— | 25 November 1980 | 7 November 1982 (deposed)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
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| 4 | File:Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo at book signing.jpg | Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo (born 1942)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
— | 8 November 1982 | 4 August 1983 (deposed)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Ayd | style="background:Template:Party color;" | | Military | Sankara |
| 5 | File:Thomas Sankara in Harlem (1984).png | Thomas Sankara (1949–1987)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
— | 4 August 1983 | 4 August 1984 | Template:Age in years year | style="background:Template:Party color;" | | Military | Position abolished |
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| (5)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | File:Thomas Sankara in Harlem (1984).png | Thomas Sankara (1949–1987)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
— | 4 August 1984 | 15 October 1987 (assassinated)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Ayd | style="background:Template:Party color;" | | Military | Position abolished |
| 6 | File:Blaise Compaoré 2014 White House (cropped).png | Blaise Compaoré (born 1951)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
1991 1998 2005 2010 |
15 October 1987 | 31 October 2014 (resigned)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Ayd | style="background:Template:Party color;" | | Military / FP ODP–MT / CDP |
Y. Ouédraogo Kaboré K. D. Ouédraogo Yonli Zongo Tiao |
| – | File:General Honore Traore (Burkina Faso).jpg | Honoré Traoré (born 1957)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". claimantScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
— | 31 October 2014 | 1 November 2014 | Template:Ayd | style="background:Template:Party color;" | | Military | Position vacant |
| – | File:Yacouba Isaac Zida 2015.jpg | Yacouba Isaac Zida (born 1965)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
— | 1 November 2014 | 18 November 2014 | Template:Ayd | style="background:Template:Party color;" | | Military (RSP)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Position vacant |
| – | File:Michel Kafando - 2015 (cropped).jpg | Michel Kafando (born 1942)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
— | 18 November 2014 | 17 September 2015 (deposed)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Ayd | style="background:Template:Party color;" | | Independent | Zida |
| – | File:Gilbert Diendéré 2010-05-01.jpg | Gilbert Diendéré (born c.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1960)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
— | 17 September 2015 | 23 September 2015 (junta dissolved)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
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Position vacant |
| – | File:Chérif Sy 2019.jpg | Chérif Sy (born 1960)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
— | 17 September 2015 | 23 September 2015 | Template:Ayd | style="background:Template:Party color;" | | Independent | Position vacant |
| – | File:Michel Kafando - 2015 (cropped).jpg | Michel Kafando (born 1942)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
— | 23 September 2015 (restored)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
29 December 2015 | Template:Ayd | style="background:Template:Party color;" | | Independent | Zida |
| 7 | File:Roch Marc Christian Kaboré (04-06-2018).jpg | Roch Marc Christian Kaboré (born 1957)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
2015 2020 |
29 December 2015 | 24 January 2022 (deposed)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Ayd | style="background:Template:Party color;" | | MPP | Thieba Dabiré L. Zerbo |
| – | File:Le lieutenant-colonel Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba, Ouagadougou le 27 janvier 2022 (cropped).jpg | Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba (born 1981)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
– | 24 January 2022 | 30 September 2022 (deposed)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Ayd | style="background:Template:Party color;" | | Military | Ouédraogo |
| – | File:Ibrahim Traoré - 2023 (cropped).png | Ibrahim Traoré (born 1988)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
– | 30 September 2022 | Incumbent | Template:Ayd | style="background:Template:Party color;" | | Military | Tambèla J. E. Ouédraogo |
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Timeline
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Latest election
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See also
- Politics of Burkina Faso
- List of prime ministers of Burkina Faso
- List of colonial governors of French Upper Volta
Notes
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References
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