List of heads of state of the Comoros explained

Post:	President
Body:	the Union of the Comoros
Insignia:	Seal of the Comoros.svg
Insigniasize:	125px
Insigniacaption:	National Seal
Nativename:	قائمة رؤساء جزر القمر Président de l'Union des Comores
Incumbent:	Azali Assoumani
Incumbentsince:	3 April 2019
Termlength:	5 years, renewable once.
Formation:	27 October 1977
Succession:	Line of succession
Inaugural:	Ahmed Abdallah (State of the Comoros; First president of the Federal and Islamic Republic of the Comoros) Ali Soilih (State of the Comoros; First president) Azali Assoumani (Union of the Comoros)
Deputy:	Abolished, Vice-President of the Comoros
Salary:	53,557,291 Comorian francs/117,060 USD annually^[1]

This article lists the heads of state of the Comoros, since the country gained independence from France in 1975.

Term limits

A new constitution, approved in the 2018 constitutional referendum allows the president to run for two consecutive five-year terms. Previously during the time of Union of the Comoros, there was a one-term rotational system in place to share the presidency between Grande Comore, Anjouan and Mohéli.^[2]

List of officeholders

	Portrait	Name	Title	Term of office			Political party
				Took office	Left office	Time in office
/ • State of the Comoros (État Comorien)
// • Federal and Islamic Republic of the Comoros (République fédérale islamique des Comores) (Jumhuriyat al-Qumur al-Itthadiyah al-Islamiyah)
• Union of the Comoros (Union des Comores) / الاتحاد القمر (dzima wa Komori)

Succession

Article 58^[3] of the Comorian Constitution states that "in case of absolute absence of a President" the following should happen:

• If the absence (death, resignation, etc.) should occur within the first 900 days of the term, the cabinet ministers and other members of the government select among the ministers a "main minister" to serve as Interim President. Elections must also be called in no more than 60 days after the absence of the President occurs; the person who wins those elections will be president for the remainder of the original five-year presidential term.
• If the absence should occur beyond the first 900 days of the term, then the Governor of the island currently holding the presidency will assume the presidency until the end of the original five-year presidential term, at which point regular elections are held.

Latest election

See main article: 2019 Comorian presidential election.

See also

• Politics of the Comoros
• List of sultans on the Comoros
• List of colonial governors of the Comoros
• List of prime ministers of the Comoros
• Vice-President of the Comoros

External links

• World Statesmen – Comoros

Notes and References

1. Web site: The highest and lowest paid African presidents – Business Daily. 27 December 2020 . Business Daily.
2. Web site: Cook . Candace . Siegle . Joseph . Circumvention of Term Limits Weakens Governance in Africa . Africa Center for Strategic Studies.
3. Web site: L'intégralité du projet de révision de la constitution de l'Union des Comores. 10 November 2023 . Al-watwan – Le premier journal des Comores.