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The
President of the Portuguese Republic
(
Portuguese
:
Presidente da Republica Portuguesa
,
pronounced:
[p??zi?ð?t? ð? ???puβlik? pu?tu??ez?]
) is the
executive
head of state
of
Portugal
.
The current President of Portugal is
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
, who took office on 9 March 2016.
The President exercises the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces and Grand Master of the Three Orders and shall appoint and remove, at the proposal of the Government, the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces and the Military Staff Heads of the three branches the Armed Forces.
The President appoints the Prime Minister, given the election results, and appoints the other members of the Government by proposal of the Prime Minister.
The President declares a state of siege and emergency upon consultation with the Government and with permission of the Parliament.
The President decides on referendums put forth to him by Parliament.
Under the
Portuguese Constitution
adopted in 1976, in the wake of the 1974
Carnation Revolution
, the President is elected to a five-year term; there is no limit to the number of terms a president may serve, but a president who serves two consecutive terms may not serve again in the next five years after the second term finishes or in the following five years after his resignation.
If the president dies or becomes incapacitated while in office, the President of the Assembly assumes the office with restricted powers until a new president can be inaugurated following fresh elections.
There are two living former Portuguese Presidents:
