List of heads of state of Chad
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The president of Chad (Template:Langx, Template:Langx) is the head of state of Chad, and the commander-in-chief of the Chadian National Army. The presidency is the highest executive position in the country. The president is directly elected for a double five-year term.
A total of seven people have served as head of state of Chad (not counting two Interim Heads of State). Additionally, one person, Goukouni Oueddei, has served on two non-consecutive occasions.
The current head of state is President Mahamat Déby, who was inaugurated on 23 May 2024 following the 2024 presidential election.[1][2] Prior to that, Déby has served as transitional president from 2022,[3] and Chad's de facto head of state as president of the Transitional Military Council from 2021, after his father, the previous president Idriss Déby, was killed in the Northern Chad offensive.[4][5]
Term limits
In 2018, the new Constitution of Chad reinstated two-term limits for the president. It also changed the length of the term from five years to six years.[6] However, in 2023, a constitutional referendum was held which changed the length of the term from six years back to five years and which also lowered the minimum age for the presidency from 40 down to 35.[7]
Titles
- 1960–1962: Head of State
- 1962–1975: President of the Republic
- 1975Script error: No such module "String".: Chairman of the Supreme Military Council
- 1975–1978: Head of State
- 1978–1979: President of the Republic
- 1979Script error: No such module "String".: Chairman of the Provisional Council of State
- 1979Script error: No such module "String".: President of the Transitional Government of National Unity
- 1979Script error: No such module "String".: Chairman of the Provisional Administrative Committee
- 1979–1982: President of the Transitional Government of National Unity
- 1982Script error: No such module "String".: Chairman of the Command Council of the Armed Forces of the North
- 1982Script error: No such module "String".: Chairman of the Council of State
- 1982–1990: President of the Republic
- 1990Script error: No such module "String".: President of the Patriotic Salvation Movement
- 1990–1991: President of the Council of State
- 1991–2021: President of the Republic
- 2021–2022: President of the Transitional Military Council[8]
- 2022–2024: Transitional President of the Republic[3][9]
- 2024–present: President of the Republic
List of officeholders
- Political parties
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- Other factions
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- Status
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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 | |||||||
| 1 | File:François Tombalbaye p1959.jpg | François Tombalbaye (1918–1975)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Efn |
1962 1969 |
11 August 1960 | 13 April 1975 (Assassinated in a coup)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Ayd | style="background:Template:Party color;" | | PPT until 1973 renamed toScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". MNRCS |
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| – | File:No image.png | Noël Milarew Odingar (1932–2007)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
— | 13 April 1975 | 15 April 1975 | Template:Ayd | style="background:Template:Party color;" | | Military | Position not established |
| 2 | File:No image.png | Félix Malloum (1932–2009)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
— | 15 April 1975 | 23 March 1979 (Resigned)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Ayd | style="background:Template:Party color;" | | Military | Habré |
| – | File:No image.png | Goukouni Oueddei (born 1944)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
— | 23 March 1979 | 29 April 1979 | Template:Ayd | FROLINAT–FAP | Position vacant | |
| 3 | File:No image.png | Lol Mahamat Choua (1939–2019)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
— | 29 April 1979 | 3 September 1979 | Template:Ayd | MPLT | Position vacant | |
| 4 | File:No image.png | Goukouni Oueddei (born 1944)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
— | 3 September 1979 | 7 June 1982 (Deposed in a coup)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Ayd | FROLINAT–FAP | Ngardoum (from 19 May 1982)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
| 5 | File:Hissène Habré 1989.png | Hissène Habré (1942–2021)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Text | 7 June 1982 | 2 December 1990 (Deposed in a coup)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Ayd | style="background:Template:Party color;" | | FAN / UNIR | Ngardoum (until 19 June 1982)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
| – | File:Idriss Déby at the White House in 2014.jpg | Idriss Déby (1952–2021)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
— | 2 December 1990Template:Efn | 28 February 1991 | Template:Ayd | style="background:Template:Party color;" | | Military / MPS | Position abolished |
| 6 | 1996 2001 2006 2011 2016 2021 |
28 February 1991 | 20 April 2021 (Killed in action)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Ayd | style="background:Template:Party color;" | | Bawoyeu Yodoyman Moungar Koumakoye Djimasta Ouaido Yamassoum Kabadi Faki Yoadimnadji Younousmi Koumakoye Abbas Nadingar Dadnadji Deubet Padacké | |||
| – | File:Mahamat Déby.jpg | Mahamat Déby (born 1984)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
— | 20 April 2021Template:Efn | 23 May 2024 | Template:Ayd | style="background:Template:Party color;" | | Military / MPS | Padacké Kebzabo Masra Halina |
| 7 | 2024 | 23 May 2024 | Incumbent | Template:Ayd | style="background:Template:Party color;" | | ||||
Timeline
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Latest election
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See also
- Politics of Chad
- List of prime ministers of Chad
- Vice President of Chad
- History of Chad
- List of colonial governors of Chad
Notes
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References
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External links
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