President of the French Republic

The **President** **of the French Republic** is the head of state of France. The current President is Emmanuel Macron since 14 May 2017 defeating Marine Le Pen in the second round of the presidential election on 7 May 2017.

## List of French presidents (Fifth Republic)

|rowspan="2"|N°|rowspan="2"|Portrait|rowspan="2" width=30%|Name|colspan="3" width=30%|Term of office and election|rowspan="2" width=25%|Political party|rowspan="2"|||
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|rowspan="3"||rowspan="3" align="center"|**Charles de Gaulle** (18901970)|rowspan="2"|8 January 1959|rowspan="2"|28 April 1969|List of indirect presidential elections in France|Union for the New Republic|rowspan="3"|||
|1965 French presidential election|rowspan="2"|Union of Democrats for the Republic|||||||||||
|colspan="3"|President of the Council of Ministers||||||||||||
|colspan=7"|The President of the Senate _Alain Poher_ deputised during the interim (28 April 1969  20 June 1969).||||||||||||
|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2" align="center"|**Georges Pompidou** (19111974)|20 June 1969|2 April 1974|1969 French presidential election|rowspan="2"|Union of Democrats for the Republic|rowspan="2"||||
|colspan="3"|Prime Minister of France||||||||||||
|colspan=7"|The President of the Senate _Alain Poher_ deputised during the interim (2 April 1974  27 May 1974).||||||||||||
|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2" align="center"|**Valéry Giscard d'Estaing** (1926–2020)|27 May 1974|21 May 1981|1974 French presidential election|rowspan="2"|National Federation of the Independent Republicans Union for French Democracy|rowspan="2"||||
|colspan="3"|Minister of the Economy and Finance||||||||||||
|rowspan="3"||rowspan="3" align="center"|**François Mitterrand** (19161996)|rowspan="2"|21 May 1981|rowspan="2"|17 May 1995|1981 French presidential election|rowspan="3"|Socialist Party|rowspan="3"||
|1988 French presidential election|||||||||||||
|colspan="3"|Member of the National Assembly for Nièvre||||||||||||
|rowspan="3"||rowspan="3" align="center"|**Jacques Chirac** (19322019)|rowspan="2"|17 May 1995|rowspan="2"|16 May 2007|1995 French presidential election|Rally for the Republic|rowspan="3"|||
|2002 French presidential election|rowspan="2"|Union for a Popular Movement|||||||||||
|colspan="3"|Mayor of Paris||||||||||||
|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2" align="center"|**Nicolas Sarkozy** (born 1955)|16 May 2007|15 May 2012|2007 French presidential election|rowspan="2"|Union for a Popular Movement|rowspan="2"||||
|colspan="3"|Minister of the Interior||||||||||||
|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2" align="center"|**François Hollande** (born 1954)|15 May 2012|14 May 2017|2012 French presidential election|rowspan="2"|Socialist Party|rowspan="2"||||
|colspan="3"|President of the General Council of Corrèze||||||||||||
|rowspan="3"||rowspan="3" align="center"|**Emmanuel Macron** (born 1977)|rowspan="2"|14 May 2017|rowspan="2"|Incumbent|2017 French presidential election|rowspan="3"|La République En Marche!|rowspan="3"||
|2022 French presidential election|||||||||||||
|colspan="3"|Minister of the Economy, Industry and Digital Affairs||||||||||||

## Living former presidents of France

There are two living former French presidents:

## Other websites

- Official Website

## Infobox (official post)

- **post**: President
- **body**: the French Republic
- **insigniasize**: 150
- **flag**: MarquePresident.svg
- **image**: President Emmanuel Macron in May 2025.jpg
- **incumbent**: Emmanuel Macron
- **incumbentsince**: 14 May 2017
- **department**: Politics of France#Executive branch, Executive branch in French Politics
- **status**: Head of State
- **residence**: Élysée Palace
- **seat**: Paris, France
- **nominator**: At least 500 elected officials
- **appointer**: Presidential elections in France, Direct popular vote (Two-round system, two rounds if necessary)
- **termlength**: Five years, renewable once consecutively
- **constituting instrument**: Constitution of France, Fifth Republic Constitution
- **formation**: * French Second Republic, Second Republic: 20 December 1848
* French Fifth Republic, Fifth Republic: 4 October 1958
- **salary**: EUR, €179,000 annually
- **website**: (in French language, French)