Ibravian presidential line of succession

The Ibravian presidential line of succession is the order in which the Vice President and other officers of the Ibravian federal government assume the powers and duties of the Ibravian presidency (or the office itself, in the instance of succession by the Vice President) upon an elected president's death, resignation, or removal from office upon impeachment conviction or incapacity.

The order of succession specifies that the office passes to the Vice President; if the Vice President is also incapacitated, the powers and duties of the presidency pass to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, President pro tempore of the Senate, and then Cabinet secretaries, depending on eligibility.

Presidential succession is referred to multiple times in the Constitution – Article II, Section 1, Clause 6, as well as the 12th Amendment, 20th Amendment, and 25th Amendment. The Vice President is designated as first in the presidential line of succession by the Article II succession clause, which also authorizes the Congress to provide for a line of succession beyond them.

The current Presidential Succession Act was adopted in 1947, and last revised in 2006. The 25th Amendment also establishes procedures for filling an intra-term vacancy in the office of the Vice President. The Presidential Succession Act refers specifically to officers beyond the Vice President acting as president rather than becoming president when filling a vacancy.

The Cabinet has 19 members, where the Secretary of the Interior is first in line; the other Cabinet secretaries follow in the order of when their departments (or the department of which their department is the successor) were created. Those heads of department who are not constitutionally "eligible to the Office of the President" are disqualified from assuming the powers and duties of the President through succession, and skipped to the next in line. No one lower in the line of succession has ever been called upon to act as president.

Current order of succession

No.	Post	Incumbent	Party
1	Vice President	Sophia Rousseau		Liberal
2	Speaker of the House of Representatives	Nancy D'Ettore
3	President pro tempore of the Senate	Edward Francis
4	Secretary of the Interior	Michael Grześkiewicz
5	Secretary of State	Alejandro Cabrera
6	Secretary of the Treasury	Lloyd Dominguez
7	Secretary of Commerce	Elisabeth Rietschlin
8	Secretary of Defense	Sarah Benavidez
9	Attorney General	Zahid Ebrahimi
10	Secretary of Health and Human Services	Anthony Mikkelsen
11	Secretary of Transportation	Melinda Chen-Zheng
12	Secretary of Energy	Ezra McCown
13	Secretary of Education	Keith Mullen
14	Secretary of Culture	Natalie Novikoff
15	Secretary of Homeland Security	Eric Barrett

See also

• Designated survivor
• List of Ibravian presidential assassination attempts and plots