President of the Czech Republic

The **President of the Czech Republic** is head of state of the Czech Republic. The first President took office in 1993.

## List President of the Czech Republic

- _Political parties_

- _Other factions_

|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|Portrait|rowspan="2"|Name|rowspan="2"|Ethnicity|rowspan="2"|Elected|colspan="3"|Term of office|rowspan="2"|Political party|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|colspan="9" style="background:#9999FF;"|<div style="font-size:12pt; margin:2px;"> **First Czechoslovak Republic**</div>|||||||||||||
||Tomáš Masaryk|Czech|1918 1920 1927 1934|14 November 1918|14 December 1935||Independent|||||||
||Milan Hodža|Slovak|—|14 December 1935|18 December 1935||Independent|||||||
||Edvard Beneš|rowspan="2"|Czech|1935|18 December 1935|5 October 1938||ČSNS||||||
||Jan Syrový|—|5 October 1938|30 November 1938||Independent||||||||
|colspan="9" style="background:#BB9955;"|<div style="font-size:12pt; margin:2px;"> **Second Czechoslovak Republic**</div>|||||||||||||
||Emil Hácha|Czech|1938|30 November 1938|15 March 1939||Independent|||||||
|colspan="9" style="background:#FFFFFF;"|<div style="font-size:12pt; margin:2px;"> **Occupation**</div>|||||||||||||
|colspan="9" style="background:#FFFFFF;"||||||||||||||
|colspan="9" style="background:#FFFF88;"|<div style="font-size:12pt; margin:2px;"> **Third Czechoslovak Republic**</div>|||||||||||||
||Edvard Beneš|Czech|1946|4 April 1945|7 June 1948||ČSNS|||||||
|colspan="9" style="background:#FF6666;"|<div style="font-size:12pt; margin:2px;"> **Communist Era**</div>|||||||||||||
||Klement Gottwald|rowspan="3"|Czech|1948|14 June 1948|14 March 1953||rowspan="7"|KSČ|||||
||Antonín Zápotocký|1953|21 March 1953|13 November 1957||||||||||
||Antonín Novotný|1957 1964|19 November 1957|22 March 1968||||||||||
||Jozef Lenárt|Slovak|—|22 March 1968|30 March 1968|||||||||
||Ludvík Svoboda|Czech|1968 1973|30 March 1968|29 May 1975|||||||||
||Gustáv Husák|rowspan="2"|Slovak|1975 1980 1985|29 May 1975|10 December 1989||||||||
||Marián Čalfa|—|10 December 1989|29 December 1989||||||||||
|colspan="9" style="background:#99AAFF;"|<div style="font-size:12pt; margin:2px;"> **Post–Communist Era**</div>|||||||||||||
||Václav Havel|Czech|1989 1990 1992|29 December 1989|20 July 1992||OF|||||||

- Parties

||colspan="2"|President|Took office|Left office|Party|Term|Previous office(s)|||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2" style="width:16%;"|**Václav Havel**|rowspan="2"|2 February 1993|rowspan="2"|2 February 2003|rowspan="2"|Independent|bgcolor=|1993 Czech presidential election|rowspan="2"|President of the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic|
|bgcolor=|1998 Czech presidential election|||||||||||||
|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2" style="width:16%;"|**Václav Klaus**|rowspan="2"|7 March 2003|rowspan="2"|7 March 2013|rowspan="2"|Civic Democratic Party (ODS)|bgcolor=|2003 Czech presidential election|rowspan="2"|Prime Minister President of the Chamber of Deputies|
|bgcolor=|2008 Czech presidential election|||||||||||||
|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|**Miloš Zeman**|rowspan="2"|8 March 2013|rowspan="2"|9 March 2023|rowspan="2"|Party of Civic Rights (SPO)|bgcolor=|2013 Czech presidential election|rowspan="2"|President of the Chamber of Deputies Prime Minister|
|bgcolor=|2018 Czech presidential election|||||||||||||
||**Petr Pavel**|9 March 2023|Incumbent|Independent|bgcolor=|2023 Czech presidential election||Chief of the General Staff Chairman of the NATO Military Committee||||||

## Living former presidents

|Name|Age|Born|served|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Marián Čalfa||7 May 1946|1989|
|Václav Klaus||19 June 1941|2003-2013|
|Miloš Zeman||28 September 1944|2013-2023|

## Infobox (official post)

- **style**: Excellency, His Excellency
- **post**: President
- **body**: the Czech Republic
- **native name**: <small>Prezident České republiky</small>
- **insignia**: Flag of the President of the Czech Republic.svgborder
- **insigniasize**: 125px
- **insigniacaption**: Flag of the Czech Republic#Presidential standard, Presidential Standard
- **image**: Petr Pavel.jpg
- **incumbent**: Petr Pavel
- **incumbentsince**: 9 March 2023
- **residence**: Prague Castle
- **seat**: Prague, Czech Republic
- **appointer**: Direct election, Popular vote
- **termlength**: Five years
- **termlength qualified**: Renewable once, consecutively
- **formation**: Constitution of the Czech Republic
- **precursor**: List of presidents of Czechoslovakia, President of Czechoslovakia
<small>14 November 1918</small>
- **inaugural**: Václav Havel
<small>2 February 1993</SMALL>
- **salary**: 2,235,600 CZK, Kč (American dollar, $ 86,830)
- **website**: [http://www.hrad.cz/en/index.shtml www.hrad.cz]