List of Presidents of the Czech Republic
Encyclopedia
The President of the Czech Republic
is the head of state of the Czech Republic
. Only two persons have held this office since the 1993 dissolution of Czechoslovakia
, both for the constitutionally
allowed maximum number of terms – two. The president is elected by the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic
and the Senate of the Czech Republic
, for a term lasting five years.
President of the Czech Republic
The President of the Czech Republic is the head of state of the Czech Republic. Unlike his counterparts in Austria and Hungary, who are generally considered figureheads, the Czech President has a considerable role in political affairs...
is the head of state of the Czech Republic
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....
. Only two persons have held this office since the 1993 dissolution of Czechoslovakia
Dissolution of Czechoslovakia
The dissolution of Czechoslovakia, which took effect on 1 January 1993, was an event that saw the self-determined separation of the federal state of Czechoslovakia. The Czech Republic and Slovakia, entities which had arisen in 1969 within the framework of Czechoslovak federalisation, became...
, both for the constitutionally
Constitution of the Czech Republic
The current Constitution of the Czech Republic was adopted on December 16, 1992. It replaced the constitution of Czechoslovakia , which split into the Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic by act of parliament on January 1, 1993, through the so-called Velvet Divorce.The document is organized into...
allowed maximum number of terms – two. The president is elected by the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic
Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic
The Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of the Czech Republic. The seat of the Chamber of Deputies is situated in palaces in Malá Strana, Prague....
and the Senate of the Czech Republic
Senate of the Czech Republic
The Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic , usually referred to as Senát, is the upper chamber of the Parliament of the Czech Republic...
, for a term lasting five years.
Presidents of the Czech Republic
| Nº | Portrait | Name | Entered office | Left office | Political party | Term |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Václav Havel Václav Havel Václav Havel is a Czech playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and politician. He was the tenth and last President of Czechoslovakia and the first President of the Czech Republic . He has written over twenty plays and numerous non-fiction works, translated internationally... |
2 February 1993 | 2 February 2003 | Non-partisan | 1 |
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| 2 |  |
Václav Klaus Václav Klaus Václav Klaus is the second President of the Czech Republic and a former Prime Minister .An economist, he is co-founder of the Civic Democratic Party, the Czech Republic's largest center-right political party. Klaus is a eurosceptic, but he reluctantly endorsed the Lisbon treaty as president of... |
7 March 2003 | Incumbent | Non-partisan Civic Democratic Party (until 2009) |
3 |
| 4 Czech presidential election, 2008 Elections of the President of the Czech Republic by the Parliament of the Czech Republic were held on Friday 8 February and Saturday 9 February 2008, to select a successor to incumbent Václav Klaus' for a five-year term beginning on 7 March 2008... |
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See also
- List of rulers of Bohemia
- List of Presidents of Czechoslovakia
- List of Prime Ministers of Czechoslovakia
- List of Prime Ministers of the Czech Socialist Republic
- List of rulers of the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia
- List of Prime Ministers of the Czech Republic
- Lists of incumbents
External links
- The Czech constitution. Articles 54-66 are particularly relevant to the presidency.
- The official site of Prague Castle