President of Ainin

President of the Aininian Republic
Incumbent Cao Nima since 15 June 2015
Style	His Grand Excellency
Member of	the Council of State
Residence	Château des Sœurs Huimont, Isle-Royale
Nominator	Speaker of the House of Censure
Appointer	National Assembly
Term length	Up to 52 weeks after last legislative election
Constituting instrument	Constitution of Ainin
Precursor	Citizen-Protector of Ainin
Formation	2 April 1798
First holder	Arnaud de Saint-Hyacinthe

The President of the Aininian Republic (French: Président de la République aininienne) is the head of state of Ainin and the chief executive of its government. The president is also commander-in-chief of each branch of the Armed Forces separately, holding the offices of General of the Armies in the Army, Admiral of the Fleet in the Navy, General of the Air Force in the Air Force and Commissar of the Gendarmerie in the Gendarmerie. The president represents Ainin before foreign representatives, has the power to make war and peace, signs bills of the National Assembly into law and has a voice in the day-to-day running of the government.

The office of president dates to 1798, when Father of the Republic Henri of Namoria proclaimed the establishment of the Provisional Republican Authority of Ainin during the Aininian Revolution with himself as president. After the end of the war, he briefly became the first president of Ainin as well. During the First Republic, the presidency was a powerful executive office and shaped over the policy agenda of the Cabinet and National Assembly. However, the 1897-1910 Social Revolution saw a complete overhaul of the Aininian government and the adoption of the Constitution of 1901, which put political power in the hands of the newly-established office of prime minister, relegating the presidency to a ceremonial office to acknowledge a prominent community leader as "first citizen".

Over the course of the 21st century, there has been a push to restore some political power to the presidency. When the Social Democrats came to power in 2002, party leader Rémi de Wampley defied convention and chose the presidency over the premiership. The decade was marked by a politically active presidency that resembled that of the First Republic, which continued into the term of the Progressive Conservative government under Steven Mann. However, after the 2015 election, the trend appears to be reversing with the election of non-partisan TV personality Cao Nima to the presidency.

The president is chosen by the National Assembly after a general election. Pursuant to Article II of the Constitution of Ainin, a candidate is nominated by the outgoing Speaker of the House of Deputies on the advice of the party leaders and confirmed by the incoming members of the House of Deputies and the outgoing members of the House of Censure.

List

	#	Name	Party	Assumed office	Left office	Notes
	1	Henri de Namoirie	None	2 May 1801	15 November 1801	Previously served as President of the Provisional Republican Authority of Ainin
	2	Arnaud de Saint-Hyacinthe	Radical	15 November 1801	29 July 1803	Deposed in the March on the Cities and placed under house arrest
	3	Jean-Marie La Chapelle	None	29 July 1803	8 February 1809	President-for-life at head of Committee of National Defence military junta, died in office
	4	Pierre La Chapelle	None	8 February 1809	10 June 1810	Relinquished power, supervised transition to civilian government as caretaker
	5	Chrétien de Doval	Liberal	10 June 1810	6 August 1817
	6	Jacques Henri Gachet	Nationalist	6 August 1817	28 March 1821
	7	Jean-Marie Thibodeau	Liberal	28 March 1821	1 September 1825
	(5)	Chrétien de Doval	Liberal	1 September 1825	2 May 1827	Third non-consecutive term, died in office
	8	Félix Delannoy	Liberal	2 May 1827	16 January 1829	Previously vice-president, succeeded to presidency
	9	Estienne Bousquet	Nationalist	16 January 1829	19 July 1835
	10	François Arceneaux	Liberal	19 July 1835	25 July 1839	Refused to concede defeat in 1839 election, forced out by Supreme Court
	11	Maurice Radisson	Neo-Radical	25 July 1839	24 December 1839	Extra-judicially impeached in the Christmas Eve events
	12	Jean-Denis Verninacque	Liberal	25 December 1839	6 February 1841	Appointed president by National Assembly following impeachment of predecessor
	13	Philippe Beaumont	Nationalist	6 February 1841	15 February 1845
	14	Gervais Bettencourt	Nationalist	15 February 1845	1 November 1849
	15	Guillaume de Châteauguay	Liberal	1 November 1849	6 February 1857
	16	Albert Chéron	Conservative	6 February 1857	30 May 1862	Assassinated
	17	Bernard Auberjonois	None	30 May 1862	22 September 1864	Previously vice-president, succeeded to presidency
	18	Luc Delannoy	Liberal	22 September 1864	1 October 1868
	19	Lucien Passereau	Republican	1 October 1868	21 December 1881	Died in office
	20	Jacques Turgeon	Republican	21 December 1881	30 April 1884	Previously vice-president, succeeded to presidency
	21	Marie-Antoine Garnier	Liberal	30 April 1884	1 October 1887
	22	Alexandre Félicien	Republican	1 October 1887	30 April 1889
	23	Gaston Bonhomme	Conservative	30 April 1889	3 February 1893
	24	Albert Jean Francelin	Liberal	3 February 1893	2 May 1897
	25	Olivier Lapointe	National	2 May 1897	2 July 1901	Longest-serving president in Aininian history
Promulgation of Constitution of 1901, establishment of the Second Republic
	(25)	Olivier Lapointe	National	2 July 1901	5 May 1906
	26	Hubert Calvet	Liberal	5 May 1906	4 May 1910
	(25)	Olivier Lapointe	National	4 May 1910	11 September 1921	Third to fifth non-consecutive terms
	27	Marc Poulin	Liberal	11 September 1921	2 August 1922
	28	Émile Trottier	Socialist	2 August 1922	10 May 1928
	29	Simon Milhaud	National	10 May 1928	5 June 1935
	30	Henri Delacroix	Socialist	5 June 1935	16 March 1944	Died in office
	31	Samuel Verley	Socialist	16 March 1944	5 March 1947
	32	Joseph Langelier	National	5 March 1947	1 May 1955
	(31)	Samuel Verley	Socialist	1 May 1955	5 November 1960	Last president to serve non-consecutive terms
	33	Charles Saltène	National	8 November 1960	1 August 1968
	34	Alexandre Baudelaire	Social Democratic	1 August 1968	18 August 1974
	35	Clément Laflèche	Democratic	18 August 1974	15 May 1982
	36	Jean-Marie Breton	Social Democratic	15 May 1982	6 July 1992
	37	Nicolas Morin	Democratic	6 July 1992	9 July 2002
	38	Rémi de Wampley	Social Democratic	9 July 2002	26 April 2010
	39	Catherine Rochefort	Social Democratic	26 April 2010	1 April 2014	First female president
	40	Stéphane Mann	Democratic	1 April 2014	19 March 2015	Resigned, Jean de Finistère became acting president
	41	Cao Nima	None	15 June 2015	Incumbent	First ethnically Minjianese president

See also

• Prime Minister of Ainin
• Cabinet of Ainin
• Council of State (Ainin)
• National Assembly (Ainin)