The President of Chile is the head of state and the head of government of the Republic of Chile. Under the current Constitution (adopted in 1980), the President is elected by popular vote, for a period of maximum four years. Immediate re-election is not permitted. The period allows the elections of Presidents to be adjusted in time.
The President has a seat in the Palacio de La Moneda (La Moneda Palace), in the capital of Chile, Santiago.
president of Chile is José Antonio Kast on March 11, 2026
List of presidents
Presidential Republic (1990–present)
| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Party | Elected | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | ||||||
| Time in office | |||||||
| 30 |  |
Patricio Aylwin (1918–2016) |
11 March 1990 | 11 March 1994 | Christian Democratic | 1989[a] | |
| 4 years[b] | |||||||
| 31 |  |
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle (born 1942) |
11 March 1994 | 11 March 2000 | Christian Democratic | 1993[c] | |
| 6 years[d] | |||||||
| 32 |  |
Ricardo Lagos (born 1938) |
11 March 2000 | 11 March 2006 | Party for Democracy | 2000[e] | |
| 6 years[f] | |||||||
| 33[g] |  |
Michelle Bachelet (born 1951) |
11 March 2006 | 11 March 2010 | Socialist | 2006[h] | |
| 4 years | |||||||
| 34[i] |  |
Sebastián Piñera (1949–2024) |
11 March 2010 | 11 March 2014 | National Renewal | 2010[j] | |
| 4 years | |||||||
| 35[k] |  |
Michelle Bachelet (born 1951) |
11 March 2014 | 11 March 2018 | Socialist | 2013[l] | |
| 4 years | |||||||
| 36[m] |  |
Sebastián Piñera (1949–2024) |
11 March 2018 | 11 March 2022 | Independent | 2017[n] | |
| 4 years | |||||||
| 37[o] |  |
Gabriel Boric (born 1986) |
11 March 2022 | 11 March 2026 | Social Convergence Frente Amplio |
2021[p] | |
| 4 years, 8 days | |||||||
| 38 | José Antonio Kast (born 1966) |
11 March 2026 | Incumbent | Republican | 2025 | ||
| 8 days | |||||||
Living former presidents
There are three living former Chilean presidents:
Gabriel Boric (served 2022–2026) February 11, 1986
The most recent death of a former President, was Sebastián Piñera on February 6, 2024, who served in the office from 2010 until 2014 and again from 2018 to 2022.
Notes
- ↑ Supported by the center-left coalition Concertación
- ↑ Elected for a four-year term according to Temporary Provisions of the Constitution of 1980.
- ↑ Supported by the center-left coalition Concertación
- ↑ Elected for an eight-year term according to the Constitution of 1980. Days before his inauguration, the Constitutional reform of 1994 reduced the presidential term from eight to six years.
- ↑ Supported by the center-left coalition Concertación
- ↑ The Constitutional reform of 2005 reduced the presidential term from six to four years.
- ↑ First female president of Chile.
- ↑ Supported by the center-left coalition Concertación
- ↑ First democratically elected conservative president since 1958.
- ↑ Supported by the center-right coalition Coalition for Change
- ↑ Second term.
- ↑ Supported by the center-left coalition New Majority
- ↑ Second term.
- ↑ Supported by the center-right coalition Chile Vamos
- ↑ Youngest president.
- ↑ Supported by the left coalition Apruebo Dignidad
References
- ↑ "IG.com Pay Check". IG. Archived from the original on 2018-04-25. Retrieved 2021-12-20.