| Post: | Head |
| Body: | the Mari El Republic |
| Flag: | Standard of the Head of the Mari El Republic.svg |
| Flagborder: | yes |
| Flagcaption: | Standard of the head of the republic |
| Incumbent: | Yury Zaitsev |
| Incumbentsince: | 10 May 2022 |
| Department: | Executive branch of the Mari El Republic |
| Appointer: | Direct elections |
| Termlength: | 5 years; |
| Formation: | 24 December 1991 |
| First: | Vladislav Zotin |
The Head of the Republic of Mari El (formerly President of Mari El Republic) is the highest executive position in the Mari El Republic, a federal subject of the Russian Federation.
The first President of Mari El Republic was Vladislav Zotin when the position was created on 24 December 1991, two days before dissolution of the Soviet Union, replacing the First Secretary of the Mari Communist Party, the equivalent position of the Mari ASSR before it was succeeded by the Mari El Republic. The status and powers of the President were determined by Chapter 4 of the Constitution of the Mari El Republic. In December 2010, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a law that forbade calling the heads of federal subjects as "president", and must bring their constitutions or statutes in conformity with the law before 1 January 2015. The position of President of Mari El Republic was renamed to Head (Vuylatyshyzhe in Mari) in June 2011.
Since 10 May 2022 the Head of the Mari El Republic is Yury Zaitsev.[1]
| Portrait | Name | Term of office | Political party | Elected | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | |||||||
| 1 | Vladislav Zotin | 24 December 1991 | 5 January 1997 | Communist Party | |||||
| 2 | Vyacheslav Kislitsyn | 5 January 1997 | 14 January 2001 | Communist Party | |||||
| 3 | Leonid Markelov | 14 January 2001 | 6 April 2017 | Liberal Democratic Party | |||||
| United Russia | |||||||||
| – | Alexander Yevstifeyev | 6 April 2017 | 21 September 2017 | United Russia | – | ||||
| 4 | 21 September 2017 | 10 May 2022 | 2017 | ||||||
| – | Yury Zaitsev | 10 May 2022 | 23 September 2022 | United Russia | – | ||||
| 5 | 23 September 2022 | Incumbent | |||||||
The latest election for the office was held on 10 September 2017
| Candidates | Party | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Yevstifeyev | United Russia | 208,855 | 88.27 | |
| Albert Fyodorov | Liberal Democratic Party | 11,982 | 5.06 | |
| Natalia Glushenko | A Just Russia | 8,232 | 3.48 | |
| Valentina Zlobina | Party of Pensioners | 4,159 | 1.76 | |
| Source: Сводная таблица результатов выборов | ||||