page_title: President of the Philippines
section_title: Living former presidents
hierarchical_section_title: President of the Philippines / Post-presidencies / Living former presidents
caption_attribution_description: English: A photograph of Rodrigo Duterte and his predecessors at the Malacañang Palace. The official description is as follows: “ THEN AND NOW. President Rodrigo R. Duterte (center) poses with former President and Manila Mayor Joseph E. Estrada (left), former President and Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (2nd from left), former President and Special Envoy to China Fidel V. Ramos (2nd from right), and former President Benigno S. Aquino III (right), before the start of the National Security Council (NSC) meeting at the State Dining Room of the Malacañan Palace on July 27. REY BANIQUET/PPD ”
context_page_description: The president of the Philippines is the head of state and the head of government of the Philippines. The president leads the executive branch of the Philippine government and is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. The president is directly elected by the people, and is one of only two nationally elected executive officials, the other being the vice president of the Philippines. However, four vice presidents have assumed the presidency without having been elected to the office, by virtue of a president's intra-term death or resignation.
  Filipinos refer to their president as Pangulo or Presidente. The president serves a single, fixed, six-year term without possibility of re-election. On June 30, 2016, Rodrigo Duterte was sworn in as the 16th and current president.
context_section_description: As of August 2020, there are four living former presidents:
caption: Incumbent President Rodrigo Roa Duterte (center) with (from left) former presidents Joseph Ejercito Estrada, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Fidel V. Ramos, and Benigno S. Aquino III, before the start of a National Security Council meeting at the Malacañang Palace on July 27, 2016.
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