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This list details national leaders since 1900 who ruled for 20 years or more, and were not self-described members of a royal family. It combines all national leader level offices held concurrently or consecutively by each individual.


Rank	Image	Name	Country	Title	Term began	Term ended	Term length
1		Fidel Castro	Cuba	El Comandante First Secretary Prime Minister President	8 January 1959^[1]	19 April 2011^[1]	52 years, 101 days
2		Paul Biya	Cameroon	Prime Minister President	30 June 1975	present	49 years, 132 days
3		Chiang Kai-shek	Republic of China Republic of China on Taiwan	Chairman of the National Government Premier Director-General of the Kuomintang Generalissimo President	9 July 1926 (1st time) 3 January 1928 (2nd time) 6 March 1932 (3rd time)	14 August 1927 (1st time) 15 December 1931 (2nd time) 5 April 1975 (3rd time)	48 years, 46 days (22 years, 296 days in Mainland China) (25 years, 116 days on Taiwan)^{[Note 1]}
4		Kim Il-sung	North Korea	Chairman of the North Korea Bureau of the Communist Party of Korea Chairman of the Provisional People's Committee General Secretary Premier President^{[Note 2]} Generalissimo	9 September 1948	8 July 1994	45 years, 302 days
5		Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal	Mongolian People's Republic	General Secretary Prime Minister President	8 April 1940	23 August 1984	44 years, 137 days
6		Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo	Equatorial Guinea	Chairman of the Supreme Military Council President	3 August 1979	present	45 years, 98 days
7		Omar Bongo	Gabon	Acting President President	12 November 1966	6 May 2009	42 years, 175 days
8		Ali Khamenei	Iran	President Supreme Leader	13 October 1981	present	43 years, 27 days
9		Muammar Gaddafi	Libyan Arab Republic Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council Secretary General of the General People's Congress Prime Minister	1 September 1969	23 August 2011^{[Note 3]}	41 years, 356 days
10		Enver Hoxha	Democratic Government of Albania People's Republic of Albania People's Socialist Republic of Albania	Prime Minister First Secretary	22 October 1944	11 April 1985	40 years, 169 days
11		Mohamed Abdelaziz	Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic	General Secretary President	30 August 1976	31 May 2016	39 years, 275 days
12		Denis Sassou Nguesso	People's Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo	President of the Central Committee State President	8 February 1979 (1st time) 25 October 1997 (2nd time)	31 August 1992 (1st time) present (2nd time)	40 years, 220 days
13		Francisco Franco	Spanish State	Generalísimo Head of State Caudillo Prime Minister	1 October 1936	20 November 1975	39 years, 50 days
14		Hun Sen	People's Republic of Kampuchea State of Cambodia Cambodia	Prime Minister	26 December 1984	22 August 2023	38 years, 239 days
15		Éamon de Valera	Irish Republic Irish Free State Ireland	President of Dáil Éireann President of the Republic President of the Executive Council Taoiseach President	1 April 1919 (1st time) 25 October 1922 (2nd time) 9 March 1932 (3rd time) 13 June 1951 (4th time) 20 March 1957 (5th time) 25 June 1959 (6th time)	9 January 1922 (1st time) 30 May 1923 (2nd time) 18 February 1948 (3rd time) 2 June 1954 (4th time) 23 June 1959 (5th time) 24 June 1973 (6th time)	38 years, 199 days
16		Gnassingbé Eyadéma	Togo	Chairman of military junta President	14 January 1967	5 February 2005	38 years, 22 days
17		José Eduardo dos Santos	People's Republic of Angola Angola	President and Chairman of the MPLA State President	10 September 1979	26 September 2017^{[Note 4]}	38 years, 16 days
18		Yoweri Museveni	Uganda	President	26 January 1986	present	38 years, 288 days
19		Robert Mugabe	Zimbabwe	Prime Minister Party President and First Secretary State President	18 April 1980	21 November 2017	37 years, 217 days
20		Josip Broz Tito	Democratic Federal Yugoslavia Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia	General Secretary/President of the Presidency of the Central Committee Prime Minister President Marshal	29 November 1943	4 May 1980	36 years, 157 days
21		António de Oliveira Salazar	Second Portuguese Republic	Prime Minister	5 July 1932	25 September 1968	36 years, 82 days
22		Todor Zhivkov	People's Republic of Bulgaria	General Secretary Prime Minister Chairman of the State Council	4 March 1954	17 November 1989	35 years, 258 days
23		Alfredo Stroessner	Paraguay	Commander in Chief President	5 May 1954	3 February 1989	34 years, 274 days
24		Félix Houphouët-Boigny	Côte d'Ivoire	Prime Minister President	1 May 1959	7 December 1993	34 years, 220 days
22–25		Sonam Topgay Dorji	Bhutan	Chief Minister	1917	1952	34 years, 1 day to 35 years, 364 days
25		Ali Abdullah Saleh	North Yemen Yemen	President of North Yemen President	24 June 1978	25 February 2012	33 years, 222 days^{[Note 5]} (21 years, 279 days after unification)
26		Dawda Jawara	The Gambia	Prime Minister President	12 June 1962	22 July 1994	32 years, 40 days
27	Phạm Văn Đồng 1972	Phạm Văn Đồng	North Vietnam Vietnam	Prime Minister	20 September 1955	18 June 1987	31 years, 271 days (10 years, 351 days after unification)
28		János Kádár	Hungarian People's Republic	General Secretary Prime Minister	25 October 1956	27 May 1988	31 years, 215 days
29		Habib Bourguiba	Tunisia	Prime Minister President	11 April 1956	7 November 1987	31 years, 210 days
30		Lee Kuan Yew	Singapore	Prime Minister	5 June 1959	28 November 1990	31 years, 176 days^{[Note 6]}
31		Mobutu Sese Seko	Democratic Republic of the Congo Zaire	President	24 November 1965	16 May 1997	31 years, 173 days
32		Hastings Kamuzu Banda	Malaŵi	Prime Minister President	1 February 1963	21 May 1994	31 years, 109 days
33		Rafael Trujillo	Dominican Republic	President Generalísimo	3 March 1930	30 May 1961	31 years, 88 days
34		Suharto	Indonesia	President	12 March 1967	21 May 1998	31 years, 70 days
35		Emomali Rahmon	Tajikistan	Acting Chairman of the Supreme Council Chairman of the Supreme Council President	19 November 1992	present	31 years, 356 days
36		Urho Kekkonen	Finland	Prime Minister President	17 March 1950 (1st time) 20 October 1954 (2nd time)	17 November 1953 (1st time) 27 January 1982 (2nd time)	30 years, 342 days
37		Joseph Stalin	Soviet Union	General Secretary Premier Marshal	3 April 1922	5 March 1953	30 years, 336 days
38		Isaias Afwerki	Eritrea	President^{[Note 7]}	23 May 1993	present	31 years, 170 days
39		Idriss Déby	Chad	President of the Patriotic Salvation Movement President of the Council of State President	2 December 1990	20 April 2021	30 years, 139 days
40		Porfirio Díaz	Mexico	President	28 November 1876 (1st time) 17 February 1877 (2nd time) 1 December 1884 (3rd time)	6 December 1876 (1st time) 1 December 1880 (2nd time) 25 May 1911 (3rd time)	30 years, 106 days
41		Abdou Diouf	Senegal	Prime Minister President	26 February 1970	1 April 2000	30 years, 35 days
42		Maumoon Abdul Gayoom	Maldives	President	11 November 1978	11 November 2008	30 years, 0 days
43		Omar al-Bashir	Sudan	President of the Revolutionary Command Council for National Salvation President	30 June 1989	11 April 2019	29 years, 285 days
44		Hafez al-Assad	Syria	Prime Minister President	21 November 1970	10 June 2000	29 years, 202 days
45		Hosni Mubarak	Egypt	Prime Minister President	7 October 1981	11 February 2011	29 years, 127 days
46		Alexander Lukashenko	Belarus	President^{[Note 8]}	20 July 1994	present	30 years, 112 days
47		Haxhi Lleshi	People's Republic of Albania People's Socialist Republic of Albania	Chairman of the Presidium of the People's Assembly	1 August 1953	21 November 1982	29 years, 112 days
48		İsmet İnönü	Turkey	Prime Minister President	1 November 1923 (1st time) 4 March 1925 (2nd time) 11 November 1938 (3rd time) 20 November 1961 (4th time)	22 November 1924 (1st time) 25 October 1937 (2nd time) 27 May 1950 (3rd time) 20 February 1965 (4th time)	28 years, 180 days
49		Mathieu Kérékou	Dahomey People's Republic of Benin Benin	President	26 October 1972 (1st time) 4 April 1996 (2nd time)	4 April 1991 (1st time) 6 April 2006 (2nd time)	28 years, 162 days
50		France-Albert René	Seychelles	Prime Minister President	29 June 1976	14 July 2004	28 years, 15 days
51		Ne Win	Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma	Prime Minister Chairman of the Union Revolutionary Council Party Chairman President	29 October 1958 (1st time) 2 March 1962 (2nd time)	4 April 1960 (1st time) 23 July 1988 (2nd time)	27 years, 301 days
52		William Tubman	Liberia	President	3 January 1944	23 July 1971	27 years, 201 days
53		Kamisese Mara	Fiji	Prime Minister President	10 October 1970 (1st time) 5 December 1987 (2nd time) 16 December 1993 (3rd time)	13 April 1987 (1st time) 2 June 1992 (2nd time) 29 May 2000 (3rd time)	27 years, 165 days
54		Sir Colville Young	Belize	Governor-General	17 November 1993	30 April 2021	27 years, 164 days
55		Mehmet Shehu	People's Republic of Albania People's Socialist Republic of Albania	Prime Minister	20 July 1954	18 December 1981	27 years, 151 days
56		Nursultan Nazarbayev	Kazakhstan	President^{[Note 9]}	16 December 1991	20 March 2019	27 years, 94 days
57		Sir Anerood Jugnauth	Mauritius	Prime Minister President	16 June 1982 (1st time) 17 September 2000 (2nd time) 7 October 2003 (3rd time) 17 December 2014 (4th time)	22 December 1995 (1st time) 30 September 2003 (2nd time) 31 March 2012 (3rd time) 23 January 2017 (4th time)	27 years, 50 days
58		Paul Eyschen	Luxembourg	Prime Minister	22 September 1888	11 October 1915	27 years, 19 days
59		Blaise Compaoré	Burkina Faso	President of the Popular Front and Head of State President	15 October 1987	31 October 2014	27 years, 16 days
60		Kenneth Kaunda	Zambia	President	24 October 1964	2 November 1991	27 years, 9 days
61		Mikhail Kalinin	Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic Soviet Union	Chairman of the Central Executive Committee (RSFSR) Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Congress of Soviets (All-Union) Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet	30 March 1919	19 March 1946	26 years, 354 days (3 years, 275 days as head of state of the partially-recognized RSFSR)
62		Mao Zedong	People's Republic of China	Chairman of the Communist Party Chairman of the Central Military Commission Paramount Leader	1 October 1949	9 September 1976	26 years, 344 days
63		Zhou Enlai	People's Republic of China	Premier	1 October 1949	8 January 1976	26 years, 99 days
64		Pedro Pires	Cape Verde Cabo Verde	Prime Minister President	8 July 1975 (1st time) 22 March 2001 (2nd time)	4 April 1991 (1st time) 9 September 2011 (2nd time)	26 years, 76 days
65		Daniel Ortega	Nicaragua	Coordinator of the Junta of National Reconstruction^{[Note 10]} President	4 March 1981 (1st time) 10 January 2007 (2nd time)	25 April 1990 (1st time) present (2nd time)	26 years, 356 days
66		Lê Duẩn	North Vietnam Vietnam	First Secretary General Secretary	10 September 1960	10 July 1986	25 years, 303 days (10 years, 8 days after unification)
67		Ahmed Sékou Touré	Guinea	President	2 October 1958	26 March 1984	25 years, 176 days
68		Willi Stoph	German Democratic Republic	Prime Minister Chairman of the State Council	21 September 1964	13 November 1989	25 years, 53 days
69		Islam Karimov	Uzbekistan	President^{[Note 11]}	1 September 1991	2 September 2016	25 years, 1 day
70		Carl von In der Maur	Liechtenstein	Governor	23 September 1884 (1st time) 4 January 1897 (2nd time)	5 September 1892 (1st time) 11 December 1913 (2nd time)	24 years, 324 days
71		Óscar Carmona	Ditadura Nacional Second Portuguese Republic	Prime Minister President	9 July 1926	18 April 1951	24 years, 283 days
72		Nicolae Ceaușescu	Socialist Republic of Romania	General Secretary Conducător Head of State (President) President of the State Council	22 March 1965	22 December 1989	24 years, 275 days
73		Lansana Conté	Guinea	Chairman of the Military Committee of National Restoration President	5 April 1984	22 December 2008	24 years, 261 days
74		Miklós Horthy	Kingdom of Hungary	Regent	1 March 1920	15 October 1944	24 years, 228 days
75		Ismaïl Omar Guelleh	Djibouti	President	8 May 1999	present	25 years, 185 days
76		Daniel arap Moi	Kenya	Acting President President	22 August 1978	30 December 2002	24 years, 130 days
77		Vladimir Putin	Russia	Prime Minister President^{[Note 12]}	9 August 1999	present	25 years, 92 days
78		Mahathir Mohamad	Malaysia	Prime Minister	16 July 1981 (1st time) 10 May 2018 (2nd time)	31 October 2003 (1st time) 1 March 2020 (2nd time)	24 years, 38 days
79		João Bernardo Vieira	Guinea-Bissau	Prime Minister President	22 September 1978 (1st time) 16 May 1984 (2nd time) 1 October 2005 (3rd time)	14 May 1984 (1st time) 7 May 1999 (2nd time) 2 March 2009 (3rd time)	24 years, 13 days
80		Ho Chi Minh	North Vietnam	Prime Minister President Chairman of the Workers' Party First Secretary	2 September 1945	2 September 1969	24 years, 0 days
81		Józef Cyrankiewicz	Polish People's Republic	Prime Minister Chairman of the Council of State	6 February 1947 (1st time) 18 March 1954 (2nd time)	20 November 1952 (1st time) 28 March 1972 (2nd time)	23 years, 298 days
82		Saddam Hussein	Iraq	Prime Minister President	16 July 1979	9 April 2003	23 years, 267 days
83		Paul Kagame	Rwanda	President^{[Note 13]}	22 April 2000	present	24 years, 201 days
84		Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya	Mauritania	Prime Minister Head of State and Chairman of the Military Committee for National Salvation President	25 April 1981 (1st time) 12 December 1984 (2nd time)	8 March 1984 (1st time) 3 August 2005 (2nd time)	23 years, 187 days
85		Hage Geingob	Namibia	Prime Minister President^{[Note 14]}	21 March 1990 (1st time) 4 December 2012 (2nd time)	28 August 2002 (1st time) present (2nd time)	24 years, 135 days
86		Bashar al-Assad	Syria	President	17 July 2000	present	24 years, 115 days
87		Zine El Abidine Ben Ali	Tunisia	Prime Minister President	2 October 1987	14 January 2011	23 years, 104 days
88		Julius Nyerere	Tanganyika Tanzania	Prime Minister President	9 December 1961 (1st time) 9 December 1962 (2nd time)	22 January 1962 (1st time) 5 November 1985 (2nd time)	23 years, 10 days
89		Walter Ulbricht	German Democratic Republic	First Secretary Chairman of the State Council	25 July 1950	1 August 1973	23 years, 7 days
90		Didier Ratsiraka	Malagasy Republic Democratic Republic of Madagascar Madagascar	President of the Supreme Revolutionary Council President	15 June 1975 (1st time) 9 February 1997 (2nd time)	27 March 1993 (1st time) 6 May 2002 (2nd time)	23 years, 6 days
91		Tage Erlander	Sweden	Prime Minister	11 October 1946	14 October 1969	23 years, 3 days
92 (tie)		Ahmadou Ahidjo	Cameroun Cameroon	Prime Minister President	1 January 1960	6 November 1982	22 years, 309 days
92 (tie)		Konstantinos Karamanlis	Kingdom of Greece Greece	Prime Minister President	6 October 1955 (1st time) 17 May 1958 (2nd time) 4 November 1961 (3rd time) 24 July 1974 (4th time) 5 May 1990 (5th time)	5 March 1958 (1st time) 20 September 1961 (2nd time) 17 June 1963 (3rd time) 10 March 1985 (4th time) 10 March 1995 (5th time)	22 years, 309 days
94		Joaquín Balaguer	Dominican Republic	President President of the Council of State junta^{[Note 15]}	30 May 1961 (1st time) 1 July 1966 (2nd time) 16 August 1986 (3rd time)	16 January 1962 (1st time) 16 August 1978 (2nd time) 16 August 1996 (3rd time)	22 years, 277 days
95		Ralph Gonsalves	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Prime Minister	29 March 2001	present	23 years, 225 days
96		Yahya Jammeh	The Gambia	Chairman of the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council President	22 July 1994	21 January 2017	22 years, 183 days
97		Tuila'epa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi	Samoa	Prime Minister	23 November 1998	24 May 2021^{[Note 16]}	22 years, 182 days
98		Keith Mitchell	Grenada	Prime Minister	22 June 1995 (1st time) 20 February 2013 (2nd time)	9 July 2008 (1st time) 24 June 2022 (2nd time)	22 years, 141 days
99		Barkat Gourad Hamadou	Djibouti	Prime Minister	2 October 1978	7 March 2001	22 years, 156 days
100		Nicola Canali	Vatican	President of the Governatorate	20 March 1939	3 August 1961	22 years, 136 days
101		Moussa Traoré	Mali	Chairman of the Military Committee for National Liberation Head of State President	19 November 1968	26 March 1991	22 years, 127 days
102		Benito Mussolini	Italy Italian Social Republic	Prime Minister Duce	31 October 1922 (1st time) 23 September 1943 (2nd time)	25 July 1943 (1st time) 25 April 1945 (2nd time)	22 years, 116 days
103		Leonid Brezhnev	Soviet Union	General Secretary Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet	7 May 1960 (1st time) 14 October 1964 (2nd time)	15 July 1964 (1st time) 10 November 1982 (2nd time)	22 years, 96 days
104		Manuel Estrada Cabrera	Guatemala	President	8 February 1898	15 April 1920	22 years, 67 days
105		Sam Hinds	Guyana	Prime Minister President	9 October 1992 (1st time) 22 December 1997 (2nd time) 9 August 1999 (3rd time) 11 August 1999 (4th time)	17 March 1997 (1st time) 9 August 1999 (2nd time) 11 August 1999 (3rd time) 20 May 2015 (4th time)	21 years, 308 days
106		Hassan Gouled Aptidon	Djibouti	Prime Minister President	27 June 1977	8 May 1999	21 years, 285 days
107		Sukarno	Indonesia	President	18 August 1945	12 March 1967	21 years, 206 days
108		Artur Rasizade	Azerbaijan	Prime Minister	20 July 1996 (1st time) 4 November 2003 (2nd time)	4 August 2003 (1st time) 21 April 2018 (2nd time)	21 years, 183 days
109		William Lyon Mackenzie King	Canada	Prime Minister	29 December 1921 (1st time) 25 September 1926 (2nd time) 23 October 1935 (3rd time)	28 June 1926 (1st time) 7 August 1930 (2nd time) 15 November 1948 (3rd time)	21 years, 154 days
110		Siad Barre	Somali Democratic Republic	President of the Supreme Revolutionary Council President	21 October 1969	26 January 1991	21 years, 97 days
111		Meles Zenawi	Transitional Government of Ethiopia Ethiopia	Acting President Prime Minister	28 May 1991	20 August 2012	21 years, 84 days
112		Paul Kruger	South African Republic	Member of the Triumvirate State President	8 August 1881	31 May 1902	20 years, 296 days
113		Juvénal Habyarimana	Rwanda	President	5 July 1973	6 April 1994	20 years, 275 days
114		Gustáv Husák	Czechoslovakia	First Secretary President	17 April 1969	10 December 1989	20 years, 237 days
115		Manuel Pinto da Costa	São Tomé and Príncipe	President	12 July 1975 (1st time) 3 September 2011 (2nd time)	4 March 1991 (1st time) 3 September 2016 (2nd time)	20 years, 235 days
116		Kim Yong-nam	North Korea	Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly^{[Note 2]}	5 September 1998	11 April 2019	20 years, 218 days
117		Leabua Jonathan	Lesotho	Prime Minister	7 July 1965	20 January 1986	20 years, 197 days
118		Léopold Sédar Senghor	Senegal	President	6 September 1960	31 December 1980	20 years, 116 days
119		Pierre Werner	Luxembourg	Prime Minister	2 March 1959 (1st time) 16 July 1979 (2nd time)	15 June 1974 (1st time) 20 July 1984 (2nd time)	20 years, 109 days
120		Dame Pearlette Louisy	Saint Lucia	Governor-General	19 September 1997	31 December 2017	20 years, 103 days
121		Pál Losonczi	Hungarian People's Republic	Chairman of the Presidential Council	14 April 1967	25 June 1987	20 years, 72 days
122		Ferdinand Marcos	Philippines	President	30 December 1965	25 February 1986	20 years, 57 days
123		Hammer DeRoburt	Nauru	President	31 January 1968 (1st time) 15 May 1978 (2nd time) 1 October 1986 (3rd time) 22 December 1986 (4th time)	22 December 1976 (1st time) 7 September 1986 (2nd time) 12 December 1986 (3rd time) 17 August 1989 (4th time)	20 years, 31 days
124		Eddie Fenech Adami	Malta	Prime Minister President	12 May 1987 (1st time) 6 September 1998 (2nd time) 4 April 2004 (3rd time)	28 October 1996 (1st time) 23 March 2004 (2nd time) 4 April 2009 (3rd time)	20 years, 3 days
125		Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson	Iceland	President	1 August 1996	1 August 2016	20 years, 0 days

Notes

^ After the first time Chiang Kai-shek stepped down in December 1931, his power was shared by Hu Hanmin, Wang Jingwei, and Lin Sen among others. After the second time he left his state position in January 1949, Chiang was succeeded by then-Vice President Li Zongren. However, Chiang was still the de facto leader of Mainland China until he and the Kuomintang moved to Taiwan in December 1949.
^ ^a ^b The late Kim Il-sung has been designated "Eternal President of the Republic" and the post of President has formally not been filled since his death on 8 July 1994. However, effectively his son Kim Jong-il and grandson Kim Jong-un have succeeded him as dictators.
^
For purposes of this article, 23 August 2011 is considered to be the date that Gaddafi left office. Other dates might have been chosen.
- On 15 July 2011, at a meeting in Istanbul, more than 30 governments, including the United States, withdrew recognition from Gaddafi's government and recognised the National Transitional Council (NTC) as the legitimate government of Libya.
- On 23 August 2011, during the Battle of Tripoli, Gaddafi lost effective political and military control of Tripoli after his compound was captured by rebel forces.
- On 25 August 2011, the Arab League proclaimed the anti-Gaddafi National Transitional Council to be "the legitimate representative of the Libyan state".
- On 20 October 2011, Gaddafi was captured and killed near his hometown of Sirte.
- In a ceremony on 23 October 2011, officials of the interim National Transitional Council declared, "We declare to the whole world that we have liberated our beloved country, with its cities, villages, hill-tops, mountains, deserts and skies."
^ Dos Santos was President of the ruling MPLA (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola) from 20 September 1979 – 7 September 2018.
^ Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi served as Acting President from 4 June 2011 – 23 September 2011 and again from 23 November 2011 – 27 February 2012.
^ After leaving office as Prime Minister, Lee was given the emeritus positions of Senior Minister (1990–2004) and Minister Mentor (2004–2011). Lee still had effective influence in the Cabinet until 2011.
^ The country gained independence from Ethiopia on 23 May 1993. Afwerki was Secretary-General of the Provisional Government from 27 April 1991 – 23 May 1993.
^ Disputed since 23 September 2020
^ Nazarbayev was First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR from 22 June 1989 – 14 December 1991, Chairman of the Supreme Soviet (Speaker of Parliament and de facto head of state) of the Kazakh SSR from 22 February 1990 – 24 April 1990, and President of the Kazakh SSR from 24 April 1990 – 16 December 1991, on which date Kazakhstan declared independence from the Soviet Union. He has been Chairman of the ruling Nur Otan from 4 July 2007 – present, and has an emeritus position as permanent Chairman of the Kazakh National Security Council from 12 July 2018 – present. He resigned as President of Kazakhstan on 20 March 2019.
^ Ortega was the Coordinator of the Nicaraguan Junta of National Reconstruction (effectively the head of state) from 4 March 1981 to 10 January 1985; he was then President from 10 January 1985 – 25 April 1990 and 10 January 2007 – present.
^ Karimov was First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Uzbek SSR from 23 June 1989 – 3 November 1991, and President of the Uzbek SSR from 24 March 1990 – 1 September 1991, on which date Uzbekistan declared independence from the Soviet Union.
^ Putin was Prime Minister of Russia from 9 August 1999 to 7 May 2000 and Acting President from 31 December 1999 to 7 May 2000; then President of Russia from 7 May 2000 to 7 May 2008; then Prime Minister again from 8 May 2008 to 7 May 2012.
^ Kagame was the Vice President of Rwanda and Commander in Chief of the Rwandan Patriotic Army while he was the Acting Head of State from 19 July 1994 to 22 April 2000.
^ Geingob was Prime Minister of Namibia from 21 March 1990 to 28 August 2002 and 4 December 2012 to 21 March 2015.
^ The Council of State junta led by Balaguer existed from 1 January 1962 – 16 January 1962, when it was replaced by the 1962 Civic-Military Junta led by Huberto Bogaert.
^ Disputed: 24 May 2021 – 23 July 2021. The Supreme Court ruled on 23 July that Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa's FAST government had been legitimate since 24 May. Tuilaʻepa's HRPP government did not relinquish power until 27 July.

References

^ ^a ^b Depalma, Anthony (2011-08-03). "Fidel Castro News". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2011-05-20. Retrieved 2011-10-20.

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