Incumbent Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa since 9 March 2016
Presidential Office of the Portuguese Republic
Style
Mr President (informal) His Excellency (diplomatic)
Type
Head of state
Member of
Council of State
Superior Council of National Defense
Residence
Belém Palace
Seat
Lisbon, Portugal
Appointer
Direct election
Term length
Five years, renewable once consecutively
Precursor
Monarch
Formation
5 October 1910; 113 years ago (1910-10-05)
First holder
Manuel de Arriaga
Deputy
President of the Assembly
Salary
€93,364.74 annually[1]
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The president of Portugal, officially the president of the Portuguese Republic (Portuguese: Presidente da República Portuguesa, pronounced[pɾɨziˈðẽtɨðɐʁɛˈpuβlikɐpuɾtuˈɣezɐ]), is the head of state and highest office of Portugal.
The powers, functions and duties of prior presidential offices, and their relation with the prime minister and cabinets have over time differed with the various Portuguese constitutions. Currently, in the Third Republic, a semi-presidential system, the president holds no direct executive power, unlike his counterparts in the United States and France. However, he is more than a merely ceremonial figure as is typically the case with parliamentary systems: one of his most significant responsibilities is the promulgation of all laws enacted by the Assembly of the Republic (parliament) or the Government (an act without which such laws have no legal validity), with an alternative option to veto them (although this veto can be overcome in the case of laws approved by Parliament) or send them to the Constitutional Court for appreciation of whether they violate the Constitution. This and other abilities imply that the president of Portugal does not fit clearly into either of the three traditional powers – legislative, executive and judicial –, acting instead as a sort of "moderating power" among the traditional three.[2]
The current president of Portugal is Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who took office on 9 March 2016.
^Miguel Santos (23 September 2015). "E agora um temasensível: os políticos são mal pagos?". Observador (in Portuguese). Lisbon. Retrieved 12 October 2016. Todos os salários de detentores de cargos políticos são calculados em função do salário bruto do Presidente da República — 6 668 euros brutos (a que acresce 25% de despesas de representação).
^Duties of the President – Head of State. Official Page of the Presidency of the Portuguese Republic. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
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