{{Short description|None}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox official post |post = President |body = Mozambique |native_name = {{nativename|pt|Presidente de Moçambique}} |insignia = Presidential Standard of Mozambique.svg{{!}}border |insigniasize = 125px |insigniacaption = Presidential standard |nativename = |image = Daniel Chapo 2016 (Cropped).jpg |imagesize = 165px |incumbent = Daniel Chapo |incumbentsince = 15 January 2025 |style = |type = {{ubl|Head of state|Head of government|Commander-in-chief}} |residence = Palácio da Ponta Vermelha, Maputo |appointer = |termlength = Five years, | termlength_qualified = renewable once | constituting_instrument = Constitution of Mozambique (2004) |formation = {{start date and age|df=y|1975|6|25}} |succession = President of the Assembly of the Republic<ref>{{Citation |last=Azevedo |first=Elisabete |title=The Assembly of the Republic of Mozambique: From Enemies to Adversaries? |date=May 2009 |url=https://eisa.org.za/pdf/200905azevedo.pdf |type=Working paper |url-status=dead |via=eisa.org.za |mode=cs1 |access-date=3 April 2019 |archive-date=9 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170809034024/https://eisa.org.za/pdf/200905azevedo.pdf }}</ref> |inaugural = Samora Machel |deputy = |salary = {{currency|46800|USD}} annually<ref name="africabusinessdaily">{{Cite news |last=Odinga |first=Timothy |date=7 October 2017 |title=The Highest and Lowest Paid African Presidents |work=Business Daily |url=https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/news/The-highest-and-lowest-paid-African-presidents/539546-4129430-cbmf8iz/index.html |access-date=12 January 2020}}</ref> |website = }}
This article lists the '''presidents of Mozambique''', since the establishment of the office of president in 1975.
The current president of Mozambique is Daniel Chapo. Chapo was inaugurated for his first term as the country's fifth president on 15 January 2025.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/15/chapo-sworn-in-following-mozambiques-disputed-presidential-election |title=Chapo sworn in following Mozambique's disputed presidential election |work=Al Jazeera |date=15 January 2025 |access-date=15 January 2025}}</ref> The president is also the commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
==Term limits== As of 2021, there is a two-term limit for the president in the Constitution of Mozambique. The first president for whom the term limits applied was Joaquim Chissano in 2005.<ref name="termlimits">{{cite web |last1=Cook |first1=Candace |last2=Siegle |first2=Joseph |title=Circumvention of Term Limits Weakens Governance in Africa |url=https://africacenter.org/spotlight/circumvention-of-term-limits-weakens-governance-in-africa/ |website=Africa Center for Strategic Studies}}</ref>
==Presidents of Mozambique (1975–present)== {{Officeholder table start | showorder = y | showimage = y | officeholder_title = President | showtermlenght = y | showelection = y | party_col = 1 }} |- style="text-align:center;" ! colspan=8| People's Republic of Mozambique {{Officeholder table | order2 = 1 | image = Samora Moises Machel detail DF-SC-88-01383.jpg | officeholder = Samora Machel | officeholder_sort = Machel, Samora | officeholder_note = | born_year = 1933 | died_year = 1986 | died = y | term_start = 25 June 1975 | term_end = 19 October 1986 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|1975|06|25|1986|10|19}} | alt_party = FRELIMO | election = 1977 }} {{Officeholder table | order2 = – | image = Partido FRELIMO Emblem.svg | officeholder = Political Bureau of the Central Committee of FRELIMO | officeholder_sort = Politburo of the CC of FRELIMO | officeholder_note = | acting = y | born_year = | died_year = | term_start = 19 October 1986 | term_end = 6 November 1986 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|1986|10|19|1986|11|06}} | alt_party = FRELIMO | election = — }} {{Officeholder table | order2 = 2 | image = Joaquim Chissano.jpg | officeholder = Joaquim Chissano | officeholder_sort = Chissano, Joaquim | officeholder_note = | born_year = 1939 | died_year = | term_start = 6 November 1986 | term_end = 1 December 1990 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|1986|11|06|1990|12|01}} | alt_party = FRELIMO | election = 1986 }} |- style="text-align:center;" ! colspan=8| Republic of Mozambique {{Officeholder table | order2 = (2) | image = Joaquim Chissano.jpg | officeholder = Joaquim Chissano | officeholder_sort = Chissano, Joaquim | officeholder_note = | born_year = 1939 | died_year = | term_start = 1 December 1990 | term_end = 2 February 2005 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|1990|12|01|2005|02|02}} | alt_party = FRELIMO | election = 1994 | election2 = 1999 }} {{Officeholder table | order2 = 3 | image = Guebuza2006.jpg | officeholder = Armando Guebuza | officeholder_sort = Guebuza, Armando | officeholder_note = | born_year = 1943 | died_year = | term_start = 2 February 2005 | term_end = 15 January 2015 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|2005|02|02|2015|01|15}} | alt_party = FRELIMO | election = 2004 | election2 = 2009 }} {{Officeholder table | order2 = 4 | image = Filipe Nyusi, President, Republic of Mozambique - 2018 (40689535485) (cropped).jpg | officeholder = Filipe Nyusi | officeholder_sort = Nyusi, Filipe | officeholder_note = | born_year = 1959 | died_year = | term_start = 15 January 2015 | term_end = 15 January 2025 | timeinoffice = {{age in years|2015|01|15|2025|01|15}} years | alt_party = FRELIMO | election = 2014 | election2 = 2019 }} {{Officeholder table | order2 = 5 | image = Daniel Chapo 2016 (Cropped).jpg | officeholder = Daniel Chapo | officeholder_sort = Chapo, Daniel | officeholder_note = | born_year = 1977 | died_year = | term_start = 15 January 2025 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|2025|01|15}} | alt_party = FRELIMO | election = 2024 }} {{Officeholder table end}}
==Timeline== {{#tag:timeline| ImageSize = width:900 height:auto barincrement:21 PlotArea = top:10 bottom:80 right:150 left:20 AlignBars = late
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DateFormat = dd/mm/yyyy Period = from:25/06/1975 till:$today TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal ScaleMajor = gridcolor:gray1 unit:year increment:5 start:1976 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:gray2 unit:year increment:1 start:1976
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bar:Machel from: 25/06/1975 till: 19/10/1986 color:frelimo text:"Samora Machel" bar:Politbureau from: 19/10/1986 till: 06/11/1986 color:frelimo text:"Political Bureau of the Central Committee of FRELIMO (acting)" bar:Chissano from: 06/11/1986 till: 02/02/2005 color:frelimo text:"Joaquim Chissano" bar:Guebuza from: 02/02/2005 till: 15/01/2015 color:frelimo text:"Armando Guebuza" bar:Nyusi from: 15/01/2015 till: 15/01/2025 color:frelimo text:"Filipe Nyusi" bar:Chapo from: 15/01/2025 till: $today color:frelimo text:"Daniel Chapo"
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==Latest election== {{main|2024 Mozambican general election}} {{#section-h:2024 Mozambican general election|President}}
==See also== {{Politics of Mozambique}} * List of prime ministers of Mozambique * List of colonial governors of Mozambique * List of heads of the National Resistance Government of Mozambique
==Sources== * http://rulers.org/rulm2.html#mozambique * http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Mozambique.htm * '''''African States and Rulers''', John Stewart, McFarland'' * '''''Guinness Book of Kings, Rulers & Statesmen''', Clive Carpenter, Guinness Superlatives Ltd'' * '''''Heads of State and Government, 2nd Edition''', John V da Graca, MacMillan Press 2000''
==References== {{reflist}}
{{Presidents of Mozambique}} {{Years in Mozambique}} {{Mozambique topics}} {{Heads of state and government of African states}}
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