Country | Acting Head of State | Since |
Albania | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Lindita Nikolla (Speaker of the Parliament) | 10 September 2021 |
Algeria | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Salah Goudjil (President of the Council of the Nation) | 10 April 2019 |
Armenia | Designated Acting President | Alen Simonyan (President of the National Assembly of Armenia)[13] | 2 August 2021 |
Australia | Designated Acting Governor-General (ex officio) | Linda Dessau (Administrator of the Commonwealth and Governor of Victoria) | 1 November 2021 |
Austria | Presidential College | Wolfgang Sobotka (First President of the National Council) Doris Bures (Second President of the National Council) Norbert Hofer (Third President of the National Council) | 20 December 2017 9 November 2017 20 December 2017 |
Bangladesh | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury (Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad) | 30 April 2013 |
Barbados | Designated Acting President (for absolute absences) | Reginald Farley (President of the Senate) | 10 April 2019 |
Belarus | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Roman Golovchenko (Prime Minister) | 4 June 2020 |
Cameroon | Designated Acting President (for temporary absences) | Joseph Ngute (Prime Minister)[14] | 4 January 2019 |
Designated Acting President (for absolute absences) | Marcel Niat Njifenji (President of the Senate)[15] | 12 June 2013 |
Canada | Designated Acting Governor-General (ex officio) | Richard Wagner (Administrator of the Government of Canada and Chief Justice of Canada) | 18 December 2017 |
Cape Verde | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Austelino Tavares Correia (President of the National Assembly)[16] | 19 May 2021 |
Central African Republic | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Simplice Sarandji (President of the National Assembly)[17] | 5 May 2021 |
Chile | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Carolina Tohá (Minister of the Interior and Public Security) | 7 September 2022 |
Comoros | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Mhoudine Sitti Farouata (Governor of Grande Comore) | 11 November 2021[c] |
Congo, Democratic Republic of the | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Modeste Bahati Lukwebo (President of the Senate) | 5 February 2021 |
Congo, Republic of the | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Pierre Ngolo (President of the Senate)[18] | 25 August 2011 |
Croatia | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Gordan Jandroković (Speaker of Parliament) | 5 May 2017 |
Cyprus | Designated Acting President (de facto) | Annita Demetriou (President of the House of Representatives) | 10 June 2021 |
Czech Republic | Presidential Commission | Markéta Pekarová Adamová (Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies) Petr Fiala (Prime Minister) | 10 November 2021 17 December 2021 |
Djibouti | Designated Acting President (for temporary absences) | Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed (Prime Minister) | 1 April 2013 |
Designated Acting President (for absolute absences) | Abdourahman Cheick Mohamed (President of the Supreme Court) | |
East Timor | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Maria Fernanda Lay (President of National Parliament)[19] | 22 June 2023 |
Egypt | Designated Acting President (for temporary absences)[20] | Mostafa Madbouly (Prime Minister) | 14 June 2018 |
Designated Acting President (for absolute absences) | Hanafy El Gebaly (Speaker of the House of Representatives)[21] | 12 January 2021 |
Eritrea | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Isaias Afwerki (Chairman of National Assembly) | 1993 |
Estonia | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Lauri Hussar (Speaker of the Riigikogu) | 10 April 2023 |
France | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Gérard Larcher (President of the Senate) | 2014 |
Fiji | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Kamal Kumar (Chief Justice) | 2019 |
Finland | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Petteri Orpo (Prime Minister) | 20 June 2023 |
Gabon | Designated Acting President | Paulette Missambo (President of the Senate)[22] | 18 September 2023 |
Georgia | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Shalva Papuashvili (Chairperson of the Parliament) | 29 December 2021 |
Germany | Designated Acting Head of State (ex officio) | Manuela Schwesig (President of the Bundesrat and Minister-President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) | 1 November 2023 |
Greece | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Konstantinos Tasoulas (Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament) | 18 July 2019 |
Guinea | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Dansa Kourouma (President of the National Assembly)[23] | 5 February 2022 |
Guinea-Bissau | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Cipriano Cassamá (President of the National People's Assembly) | 16 June 2014 |
Haiti | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Ariel Henry (Prime Minister) | 20 July 2021 |
Hungary | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | László Kövér (Speaker of the National Assembly) | 6 August 2010 |
Iceland | Presidential Commission | Katrín Jakobsdóttir (Prime Minister) Birgir Ármannsson (Speaker of the Alþing) Benedikt Bogason (President of the Supreme Court) | 30 November 2017 1 December 2021 1 September 2020 |
Iraq | Designated Acting President[24] | Mohamed Al-Halbousi (Speaker of the Council of Representatives) | 15 September 2018 |
Ireland | Presidential Commission | Frank Clarke (Chief Justice) Mark Daly (Cathaoirleach) Seán Ó Fearghaíl (Ceann Comhairle) | 2011 2016 2016 |
Israel | Designated Interim and Acting President (ex officio) | Amir Ohana (Speaker of the Knesset)[25] | 29 December 2022 |
Italy | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Ignazio La Russa (President of the Senate) | 13 October 2022 |
Ivory Coast | Designated Acting President[26] | Patrick Achi (Prime Minister) | 8 March 2021 |
Kazakhstan | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Mäulen Äşimbaev (Chair of the Senate)[27] | 4 May 2020 |
South Korea | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Han Duck-soo (Prime Minister) | 21 May 2022 |
Kyrgyzstan | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Nurlanbek Shakiev (Speaker of the Supreme Council)[28] | 5 October 2022 |
Latvia | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Edvards Smiltēns (Speaker of the Saeima) | 1 November 2022 |
Lithuania | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen (Speaker of the Seimas) | 14 November 2016 |
Madagascar | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Richard Ravalomanana (President of the Senate) | 13 October 2023 |
Malaysia | Deputy Yang di-Pertuan Agong | Nazrin Shah of Perak (Sultan of Perak)[d] | 13 December 2016 |
Malta | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Angelo Farrugia (Speaker of the House of Representatives)[29] | 6 April 2013 |
Mauritania | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Cheikh Ahmed Baye (President of the National Assembly)[30] | 9 October 2018 |
Mexico | Designated Provisional President (ex officio) | Luisa María Alcalde Luján (Secretary of the Interior) | 19 June 2023 |
Moldova | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Igor Grosu (President of the Moldovan Parliament)[31] | 29 July 2021 |
Mongolia | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Gombojavyn Zandanshatar (Chairman of the State Great Khural) | 1 February 2019 |
Montenegro | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Andrija Mandić (President of the Parliament) | 30 October 2023 |
Mozambique | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Esperança Bias (President of the Assembly of the Republic)[32] | 13 January 2020 |
New Zealand | Designated Acting Governor-General (ex officio) | Helen Winkelmann (Administrator of the government and Chief Justice of New Zealand) | 14 March 2019 |
North Macedonia | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Jovan Mitreski (President of the Assembly) | 26 January 2024 |
Pakistan | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Sadiq Sanjrani (Chairman of the Senate) | 12 March 2018 |
Palestine | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Aziz Dweik (Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council) | 29 March 2006 |
Peru | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Alejandro Soto Reyes (President of Congress) | 26 July 2023 |
Poland | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Szymon Hołownia (Marshal of the Sejm) | 13 November 2023 |
Portugal | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Augusto Santos Silva (Presidents of the Assembly of the Republic) | 29 March 2022 |
Romania | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Nicolae Ciucă (President of the Senate) | 13 June 2023 |
Russia | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Mikhail Mishustin (Prime Minister) | 16 January 2020 |
Rwanda | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Augustin Iyamuremye (President of the Senate)[33] | 17 October 2019 |
São Tomé and Príncipe | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Celmira Sacramento (President of the National Assembly)[34] | 8 November 2022 |
Senegal | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Amadou Mame Diop (President of the National Assembly)[35] | 12 September 2022 |
Serbia | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Vladimir Orlić (President of the National Assembly) | 2 August 2022 |
Singapore | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Eddie Teo (Chairman of the Council of Presidential Advisers) | 2 January 2019 |
Slovakia | Presidential Commission | Peter Pellegrini (Speaker of the National Council) Robert Fico (Prime Minister) | 25 October 2023 25 October 2023 |
Slovenia | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Urška Klakočar Zupančič (Speaker of the National Assembly) | 13 May 2022 |
Somalia | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Aden Madobe (President of the House of the People) | 10 April 2022. |
Sri Lanka | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Dinesh Gunawardena (Prime Minister) | 22 July 2022 |
Syria | Designated Acting President[36] | Hussein Arnous (Prime Minister) | 17 July 2021 |
Tajikistan | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Rustam Emomali (Chairman of the National Assembly) | 17 April 2020 |
Togo | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Yawa Djigbodi Tségan (President of the National Assembly) | 24 January 2019 |
Trinidad and Tobago | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Nigel de Freitas (President of the Senate) | 18 January 2023 |
Tunisia | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Ahmed Hachani (Prime Minister) | 2 August 2023 |
Turkmenistan | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Dünýägözel Gulmanowa (Speaker of the Assembly) | 6 April 2023 |
Ukraine | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Ruslan Stefanchuk (Chairmen of the Verkhovna Rada) | 8 October 2021 |
Vanuatu | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Seule Simeon (Speaker of the Parliament) | 15 June 2021 |