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The de facto head of government of the Kingdom of Sydalon since 1921, is the Chancellor. Though the office of Chancellor of Sydalon has existed in various forms since the country's formation, 19 individuals have served as Chancellor since the 1920. The longest serving head of government was Belandra de Magro, Lady de Magro, who served from 1975 until 1992 for a total 17 years; the shortest official term was held by Adeodata Saabi, who served for three months from October 2017 until January 2018.

The position was first created out of the Haut Cour, an unelected advisory body for the Monarch. The official power of the office remained weak, and appointed by the Monarch to serve a term that lasted until the Monarch lost confidence in the the sitting First Secretary. All First Secretary were required to be ennobled, or serve in the Senate, whether they held a hereditary seat or were appointed. Until 1946, there were no restrictions to prevent the First Secretary to be a member of political parties, but following the sudden abdication of King William VII, amid the Sydalene occupation of the Yarden River Valley, newly anointed Queen Elissa IV sought to remove the overly nationalist influences on the office of First Secretary. This ushered in the era of non-partisan Chancellors, with a Royal decree mandating that individuals holding "ancient offices" were unable to join political parties found in the National Assembly of Sydalon.

Chancellors

Parties

• 1921–1946: (single-party state)

  National Legion

• 1946–2018: (informal multiparty system)

  Nationalist-Far Right   Conservative-Right   Moderate-Center   Liberal-Left

• since 2018: (multiparty system)

  Center-right (PP/JK/T)   Center-left (XM/MxS/P)   Franġiskani

List of Chancellors

Portrait		Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office		Tenure (Years and days)	Party	Monarch
		His Highness Charles I, Duke of Esebon (1866–1940)	15 May 1921	21 March 1923	1 year, 310 days	Independent	Emmanuelle I (1919–1944)
		The Right Honorable Lord Karm de Xuereb (1863–1940)	21 March 1926	22 August 1933	7 years, 154 days	National Populist Front
		The Right Honorable Lord Charles Pinsonneau Lord de Pinsonneau (1885–1951)	22 August 1933	3 January 1939	5 years, 134 days	National Populist Front
							Emmanuelle I (1919–1944)
		The Right Honorable Lord Charles Pinsonneau Lord de Pinsonneau (1885–1951)	22 August 1933	3 January 1939	5 years, 134 days	National Populist Front