President of the Philippines
The president of the Philippines (, sometimes referred to as "presidente ng Pilipinas") 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 generally refer to their president as "pangulo" or "presidente" in their local language. The president is limited to a single six-year term. No one who has served more than four years of a presidential term is allowed to run or serve again. On June 30, 2016, Rodrigo Duterte was sworn in as the 16th and current president. Local nomenclature. In Filipino, one of the two official languages of the Philippines, the president is referred to as "pangulo". In the other major languages of the Philippines such as the Bisayan languages, "presidente" is more  common when Filipinos are not actually code-switching with the English word. History. Early republics. Bonifacio's Tagalog Republic. Depending on the definition chosen for these terms, a number of persons could alternatively be considered the inaugural holder of the office. Andrés Bonifacio could be considered the first president of a united Philippines since, while he was the third Supreme President (Spanish: "Presidente Supremo"; Filipino: "Kataas-taasang Pangulo") of the "Katipunan", a secret revolutionary society that started an open revolt against the Spanish colonial government in August 1896, he transformed the society into a revolutionary government with himself as "President  of the Sovereign Nation/People" (Filipino: "Pangulo ng Haring Bayan"). While the term "Katipunan" (and the title "Supreme President") remained, Bonifacio's government was also known as the Tagalog Republic (Spanish: "República Tagala"; Filipino: "Republika ng Katagalugan"), and the term "haring bayan" or "haringbayan" as an adaptation and synonym of "republic", from its Latin roots as "res publica". Since "Presidente Supremo" was shortened to "Supremo" in contemporary historical accounts of other people, he thus became known by that title alone in traditional Philippine historiography, which by itself was thus understood to mean "Supreme Leader" in contrast to the later "Presidents . However, as noted by Filipino historian Xiao Chua, Bonifacio did not refer himself as Supremo" but rather as "Kataas-taasang Pangulo" (Supreme President), "Pangulo ng Kataas-taasang Kapulungan" (President of the Supreme Assembly), or "Pangulo ng Haring Bayan" (President of the Sovereign Nation/People), as evidenced by his own writings. Although the word "Tagalog" refers to the Tagalog people, a specific ethno-linguistic group mostly in southern Luzon, Bonifacio used the term "Tagalog" in "Tagalog Republic" to denote all non-Spanish peoples of the Philippines in place of "Filipinos", which had colonial origins, referring to his concept of the Philippine  nation and people as the "Sovereign Tagalog Nation/People" or more precisely "Sovereign Nation of the Tagalog People" (Filipino: "Haring Bayang Katagalugan"), in effect a synonym of "Tagalog Republic" or more precisely "Republic of the Tagalog Nation/People".<ref>