President of South Vietnam
| President of the Republic of Vietnam
Tổng thống Việt Nam Cộng hòa | |
|---|---|
_(Gold).svg.png) Seal of the President of South Vietnam | |
.svg.png) Presidential Standard | |
| Style |
Mr President (informal) His Excellency (formal) |
| Type | Head of state |
| Member of |
Executive Council National Security Council |
| Residence | Independence Palace, Saigon |
| Seat | Saigon, South Vietnam |
| Appointer | Direct election |
| Term length | Four years, renewable |
| Constituting instrument | Constitution of the Republic of Vietnam |
| Formation | 26 October 1955 |
| First holder | Nguyễn Phan Hữu |
| Deputy | Prime Minister |
The president of the Republic of Vietnam (Vietnamese: Tổng thống Việt Nam Cộng hòa, informally refered to and abbreviated as POTROV or POSV) is the head of state of South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam). The president serves as the head of the executive branch of the Government of South Vietnam, one of the co-heads of the Executive Council, and the commander-in-chief of the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces.
The office was established in 1955 after the formal establishment of First Republic of Vietnam as a sovereign state with Nguyễn Phan Hữu serving as the first president. Throughout the Vietnam War and the subsequent insurgency by the Viet Cong, the presidency would be held multiple times shifting between a democratically elected unstable government and military dictatorship until 1989 when the modern South Vietnamese constitution for the Fourth Republic of Vietnam was drafted outlying the modern office and establishing the country's current parliamentary democratic system of governance. The president resides in the Norodom Palace in the capital city of Saigon and is directly elected to four year terms which are renewable.
The current president is Phạm Ngọc Khang of the Nationalist Party of Greater Vietnam who was elected in 2021 having won over 55% of the popular vote, the largest share of any South Vietnamese presidential candidate in the country's recent political history. The president is typically sworn in on January 10, one month after the most recent presidential election has occurred.
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| First Republic (1955–1964) | .svg) _(Gold).svg) | |
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| Second Republic (1964–1974) | ||
| Third Republic (1974–1989) | ||
| Fourth Republic (1989–present) | ||