President of Vistulzka

President of the Orthodox Republic of Vistulzka
Prezydent Prawosławna Republika Wiślańska (Vistulzkan)
Flag of Vistulzka
Incumbent Józef Kamiński since August 15, 2020
Executive branch of the Vistulzkan government
Style	The Honorable (formal) His Excellency (diplomatic) Mr. President (informal)
Type	Head of state Head of government - Shared with the Marshal Commander-in-chief
Member of	Ducal Council of Vistulzka
Residence	Presidential Palace
Seat	Włocławek
Appointer	Popular vote
Term length	Four years, no limit to re-election
Constituting instrument	Constitution of the Orthodox Republic of Vistulzka

The president of Vitulzka (Vistulzkan: Prezydent Wiślańska), officially the president of the Orthodox Republic of Vistulzka (Vistulzkan: Prezydent Prawosławna Republika Wiślańska), is the head of state of the Orthodox Republic of Vistulzka and shares power of the head of government with the Marshal of Vistulzka which is appointed by the president during the election. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government of Vistulzka.

The 1940 Constitution of Vistulzka establishes the executive branch, the office of the president and the powers of the office. The office of the president was crafted within the constitution to be strong and independent, vesting the responsibility of the appointment and the operation of the departments under the Ducal Council.

The constitution also makes provisions for the Sjem to create a Council of Confidence, which replaces both the office of the marshal and the entirety of the Ducal Council. The creation of a Council of Confidence effectively places the executive branch under the direct influence of the legislative branch.

The president is elected to a four-year term directly in national elections, alongside the Marshal and the Head of the Ducal Council. There are no constitutional provisions on presidential term limits for electors to be elected to. The first president to be re-elected into office, Felicjan Osóbka-Jaruzelski, refused to run for a third term and stated that it would be a breach of trust of the people of Vistulzka that are invested in democratic principles. As such, it has since been standstill tradition to not run for election if re-elected. All presidents since the Vistulzkan Civil War have been run by the New Republican Coalition. The Orthodox Republican Party has had the most presidents in office, with a total of eleven presidents belonging to the Orthodox Republican Party. Only two presidents have come to power without being elected, Stanisław Bełza in 1960 and Erzsébet Vadai in 1991 Józef Kamiński is the 20th and current president, having assumed office in August 14, 2020 and was re-elected in the 2024 Vistulzkan elections.

See also

№	President		Term of office		Selected
	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Took Office	Left Office	Marshal	Ducal Premier
1		Bartholomew Kovalenko Варфоломій Коваленко (1900-1940)	August 15, 1940	August 14, 1944
			Bartholomew Kolavenko was the first President of Vistulzka, and has been the only President that was put into power during the Provisional Republic of Vistulzka at the end of the Vistulzkan Civil War. Kolavenko had risen to a notable politician with his leadership in the Vistulzkan Republic and his participation in the formation of Orthodox Republicanism. Kolavenko created the tradition of ensuring a peaceful transition of power after his loss in the 1944 Vistulzkan elections against the Blue Cross Movement ticket with Zoltán Medgyessy.
2		Zoltán Medgyessy	August 15, 1944	August 14, 1948	Felicjan Piłsudski	Kazimierz Mościcki
3		Felicjan Osóbka-Jaruzelski	August 15, 1948	August 14, 1952
4		Józef Mościcki	August 15, 1952	August 14, 1960
5		Bartłomiej Szynkowski (1907–1962)	August 15, 1960	September 22, 1962
			Bartłomiej Szynkowski was the fifth President as a member of the Orthodox Republican Party. Szynkowski was assassinated on September 22, 1962 by several nationalists.
6		Stanisław Bełza	September 22, 1962	August 14, 1968
7		Oleksandr Sokolovsky Олександр Соколовський	August 15, 1968	August 14, 1972
8		Sándor Bányai	August 15, 1972	August 14, 1976
9			August 15, 1976	August 14, 1984
10		Edward Jagielski	August 15, 1984	August 14, 1988
11			August 15, 1988	August 14, 1991
12		Erzsébet Vadai	August 15, 1991	August 14, 1992
13		Anastasiya Yanchenko Анастасія Янченко	August 15, 1992	August 14, 1996
14		Yulia Reznikov Юлія Резніков	August 15, 1996	August 14, 2000	Jakub Kijowski	Jarosław Kaczyński
			Yulia Reznikov became the 50th President through a slim margin in the 1996 elections. Reznikov saw a number of controversies take place during her presidency, including the 1997 Vistulzkan power crisis, the ensuing Persha accounting scandal and the 1999 Karpatskan Strike. She presided over the Six-Day War and faced serious scrutiny in her presidency due to her inaction during the first day. On the second day of the war, Reznikov directly involved Vistulzka with East Ruthen and froze relations with West Ruthen by closing their embassy. She directly volunteered Vistulzka to directly intervene for East Ruthen, and later volunteered to join the United Congress Monitoring Authority for Ruthen. Her handling of the Six-Day War has been seen as one of the most polarizing moves ever made by a President in Vistulzkan modern history, though many political analysts and retrospective accounts state that her handling and involvement positively overshadowed many of her Presidency's failures.
15		Kálmán Iványi	August 15, 2000	August 14, 2004
			Kálmán Iványi became the Xth President as a member of the Orthodox Republican Party. Iványi was a hardliner Orthodox Republican, having described his platform on progressive politics as well as Edvardian Principles. Iványi oversaw the legalization of gay marriage, lowered the voting age from 21 to 18, and introduced the Equal Contraceptive Access Act, which removed federal taxes on contraceptives for both males and females as well as establishing the Edvardian Center of Personal Health under the oversight of the Department of National Health Services which provided education and curricula on personal and sexual health.
16		Larsya Sporysh Лари́са Спо́риш	August 15, 2004	August 14, 2008
			TBW
17		Aleksander Rakowski	August 15, 2008	August 14, 2012
			TBW
18		Paweł Hong 康李潮	August 15, 2012	August 14, 2016	Kálmán Skrzyński	Tamas Kubinyi
			Paweł Hong became the 54th President after the 2012 elections as a member of the Blue Cross Movement. Hong was the first Yinese president ever elected in history. Hong oversaw several reforms and improvements towards domestic policy, including a new bill that funded the VHK Railways. He appointed Felicjan Sikorski to the Supreme Court and oversaw the implementation of Hong-Kamiński Foreign Policy in an attempt to strengthen relations with other countries. He was also an outspoken proponent during his Presidency on opposing the reunification of West Ruthen and East Ruthen and stipulated adding Vistulzkan soldiers towards the United Congress Monitoring Authority for Ruthen. He is distantly related to Hong Bokngai, 11th President of Yingok as well as a close relative to Czesława Hong, the current Chair of the Department of Social Development.
19		Władysław Skrzyński	August 15, 2016	August 14, 2020	Stanisław Duda	Empty
			TBW
20		Józef Kamiński (1967-; 57 years old)	August 15, 2020	Incumbent	Małgosia Lemańska	Bálintka Bondarenko
			Józef Kamiński is the Xth and incumbent president and is a member of the Orthodox Republican Party. Kamiński was previously the Chair of the Department of Foreign Relations under both Hong and Skrzyński. Kamiński's government has been defined as one of the youngest governments within the country's history in an effort to promote political involvement within Vistulzka's young adult population. Kamiński's government and his reforms have been characterized as radically progressive, with his government passing through the educational reform. He has also made attempts to reorganize VHK Railways to improve efficiency and access to more rural areas.