List of Presidents of Dominica

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The President of Dominica is the head of state under the system implemented by the Constitution of 1978, the year of Dominica's independence.

The president is a common title for the head of state in most republics. In politics, president is a title given to leaders of republican states.

Dominica country in the Caribbean

Dominica, officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island country in the West Indies. The capital, Roseau, is located on the western side of the island. It is part of the Windward Islands in the Lesser Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean Sea. The island is located near Guadeloupe to the northwest and Martinique to the south-southeast. Its area is 750 km2 (290 sq mi), and the highest point is Morne Diablotins, at 1,447 m (4,747 ft) in elevation. The population was 71,293 at the 2011 census. The Commonwealth of Dominica is one of the Caribbean's few republics.

A head of state is the public persona who officially represents the national unity and legitimacy of a sovereign state. Depending on the country's form of government and separation of powers, the head of state may be a ceremonial figurehead or concurrently the head of government. In a parliamentary system the head of state is the de jure leader of the nation, and there is a separate de facto leader, often with the title of prime minister. In contrast, a semi-presidential system has both heads of state and government as the leaders de facto of the nation.

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The current President of Dominica is Charles Savarin, since 2 October 2013.

Charles Angelo Savarin is a politician from Dominica who has been President of Dominica since 2013. He is a member of the Dominica Labour Party and served for a time as Minister for National Security, Immigration, Labour and the Public Service.

Presidents of Dominica (1978–present)

Status
  Denotes Acting President
PresidentTerm of officePolitical Party
(at time of election)
№PortraitName
(Birth–Death)		Took officeLeft officeTime in office
— No image.png Sir Louis Cools-Lartigue
(1905–1993)		3 November 197816 January 197974 days
1 No image.png Fred Degazon
(1913–2008) [note 1] 		16 January 197929 January 19801 year, 13 days
— No image.png Sir Louis Cools-Lartigue
(1905–1993) [note 2] 		15 June 197916 June 19791 day
— No image.png Jenner B. M. Armour
(1932–2001) [1] [note 3] 		21 June 197925 February 1980249 days
2 No image.png Aurelius Marie
(1904–1995)		25 February 198019 December 19833 years, 297 days
3 Sir Clarence Seignoret
(1919–2002)		19 December 198325 October 19939 years, 310 days Dominica Labour Party
4 No image.png Crispin Sorhaindo
(1931–2010)		25 October 19935 October 19984 years, 345 days Dominica Freedom Party
5 No image.png Vernon Shaw
(1930–2013)		6 October 19981 October 20034 years, 360 days United Workers' Party
6 Nicholas Liverpool.jpg Nicholas Liverpool
(1934–2015)		1 October 200317 September 20128 years, 352 days Independent
7 No image.png Eliud Williams
(1948–)		17 September 20122 October 20131 year, 15 days Dominica Labour Party
8 No image.png Charles Savarin
(1943–)		2 October 2013Incumbent5 years, 212 days
(as of 2 May 2019)		 Dominica Labour Party

See also

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  1. ↑ Left Dominica on 11 June 1979.
  2. ↑ Acting for Degazon.
  3. ↑ Acting for Degazon until 29 January 1980.
  1. ↑ https://www.rulers.org/indexa4.html
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