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Shortest-serving leaders: full top 100

The full top 100 shortest-serving heads of state and government across every country on TermClock.

#	Leader	Country	In office	Days
1	Víctor González Fuentes	🇧🇴 Bolivia	1978–1978	<1
2	Sakari Tuomioja	🇫🇮 Finland	1953–1953	<1
3	Hyppolite Ramaroson	🇲🇬 Madagascar	2009–2009	<1
4	Pedro Lascuráin	🇲🇽 Mexico	1913–1913	<1
	The shortest presidency in history. On 19 February 1913, during General Victoriano Huerta's coup, Lascuráin became president of Mexico for under an hour, just long enough to legally appoint Huerta as his successor and resign.
5	Mariano Holguín	🇵🇪 Peru	1931–1931	<1
6	Pedro Carve	🇺🇾 Uruguay	1875–1875	<1
7	Joaquín Suárez	🇺🇾 Uruguay	1852–1852	<1
8	Walter Breisky	🇦🇹 Austria	1922–1922	1
	A civil servant who served as Austria's chancellor for a single day in January 1922, bridging the gap between one collapsed government and the next.
9	Fazlul Haque	🇧🇩 Bangladesh	2007–2007	1
10	Honoré Traoré	🇧🇫 Burkina Faso	2014–2014	1
	The general who declared himself Burkina Faso's head of state when President Compaoré fled the 2014 uprising. The army replaced him with another officer within a day.
11	Pedro Opaso	🇨🇱 Chile	1931–1931	1
12	Clímaco Calderón	🇨🇴 Colombia	1882–1882	1
	President of Colombia for one day in December 1882, stepping in when President Francisco Javier Zaldúa died suddenly in office.
13	Haribon Chebani	🇰🇲 Comoros	1989–1989	1
14	Carlos Manuel Piedra	🇨🇺 Cuba	1959–1959	1
15	Almanbet Matubraimov	🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan	1993–1993	1
16	Francisco Urcuyo	🇳🇮 Nicaragua	1979–1979	1
	Took over when the dictator Somoza fled Nicaragua in July 1979. Instead of transferring power to the Sandinistas as agreed, he tried to stay, and fled the country two days later.
17	Orlando Montenegro Medrano	🇳🇮 Nicaragua	1966–1966	1
18	Manuel Fernando Zurita	🇳🇮 Nicaragua	1950–1950	1
19	Demetrio H. Brid	🇵🇦 Panama	1903–1903	1
20	Facundo Machaín	🇵🇾 Paraguay	1870–1870	1
21	Victor Chernomyrdin	🇷🇺 Russia	1996–1996	1
22	Žarko Korać	🇷🇸 Serbia	2003–2003	1
23	Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf	🇸🇩 Sudan	2019–2019	1
24	Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum	🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates	2022–2022	1
25	Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum	🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates	2004–2004	1
26	Diosdado Cabello	🇻🇪 Venezuela	2002–2002	1
27	Pedro Carmona	🇻🇪 Venezuela	2002–2002	1
28	Eduardo Camaño	🇦🇷 Argentina	2001–2002	2
	Another of Argentina's five presidents in two weeks during the December 2001 crisis. As leader of the Chamber of Deputies, Camaño held the acting presidency over the New Year while Congress picked a successor.
29	Ramón Puerta	🇦🇷 Argentina	2001–2001	2
	Argentina's economy collapsed in December 2001 and the country burned through five presidents in under two weeks. As Senate leader, Puerta held the acting presidency for roughly 48 hours between two resignations.
30	José Domingo Molina Gómez	🇦🇷 Argentina	1955–1955	2
	An army general who briefly held power after the September 1955 coup that overthrew Juan Perón, before handing over to the junta's chosen president.
31	Arthur Seyss-Inquart	🇦🇹 Austria	1938–1938	2
	An Austrian Nazi installed as chancellor on 11 March 1938. Two days later he signed Austria into Hitler's Germany in the Anschluss, abolishing the country he led. He was later executed at Nuremberg for war crimes.
32	Carlos Luz	🇧🇷 Brazil	1955–1955	2
	Acting president of Brazil for less than three days in November 1955, ousted by a 'preventive coup' launched to guarantee that president-elect Juscelino Kubitschek could actually take office.
33	José Ignacio Pavón	🇲🇽 Mexico	1860–1860	2
34	Manuel María Ponce Brousset	🇵🇪 Peru	1930–1930	2
35	Suriya Jungrungreangkit	🇹🇭 Thailand	2025–2025	2
36	Bazilio Olara-Okello	🇺🇬 Uganda	1985–1985	2
37	Abdelmalek Benhabyles	🇩🇿 Algeria	1992–1992	3
38	Arturo Rawson	🇦🇷 Argentina	1943–1943	3
39	Albertas Šimėnas	🇱🇹 Lithuania	1991–1991	3
40	Dragan Kujović	🇲🇪 Montenegro	2003–2003	3
41	Rifat Rastoder	🇲🇪 Montenegro	2003–2003	3
42	Sebastián Uriza	🇳🇮 Nicaragua	1926–1926	3
43	Luis Mena	🇳🇮 Nicaragua	1910–1910	3
44	Fernando de Santiago y Díaz	🇪🇸 Spain	1976–1976	3
45	Phelekezela Mphoko	🇿🇼 Zimbabwe	2017–2017	3
46	Dimitar Stanchov	🇧🇬 Bulgaria	1907–1907	4
47	Pedro Dartnell	🇨🇱 Chile	1925–1925	4
48	Aaly Karashev	🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan	2012–2012	4
49	Nazem Akkari	🇱🇧 Lebanon	1952–1952	4
50	Salvador Machado	🇳🇮 Nicaragua	1893–1893	4
51	Nicolás Osorno	🇳🇮 Nicaragua	1889–1889	4
52	Ayub Khan	🇵🇰 Pakistan	1958–1958	4
53	Federico Boyd	🇵🇦 Panama	1910–1910	4
54	Ricardo Leoncio Elías Arias	🇵🇪 Peru	1931–1931	4
55	Tomás Gutiérrez	🇵🇪 Peru	1872–1872	4
56	Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri	🇿🇦 South Africa	2005–2008 (2 terms)	4
57	Peter Gabrovski	🇧🇬 Bulgaria	1943–1943	5
58	José María Bocanegra	🇲🇽 Mexico	1829–1829	5
59	Frederick Pitcher	🇳🇷 Nauru	2011–2011	5
60	Hugh Watt	🇳🇿 New Zealand	1974–1974	5
61	Manuel Merino	🇵🇪 Peru	2020–2020	5
62	Östen Undén	🇸🇪 Sweden	1946–1946	5
63	Tomás Villalba	🇺🇾 Uruguay	1865–1865	5
64	Hartwig Löger	🇦🇹 Austria	2019–2019	6
65	Pedro Blanco Soto	🇧🇴 Bolivia	1828–1829	6
66	Chérif Sy	🇧🇫 Burkina Faso	2015–2015	6
67	Gilbert Diendéré	🇧🇫 Burkina Faso	2015–2015	6
68	François Ngeze	🇧🇮 Burundi	1993–1993	6
69	Otto Liebe	🏳️ Kingdom of Denmark	1920–1920	6
70	Richard Ratsimandrava	🇲🇬 Madagascar	1975–1975	6
71	Gustavo Jiménez	🇵🇪 Peru	1931–1931	6
72	Manuel Quintas de Almeida	🇸🇹 São Tomé and Príncipe	1995–1995	6
73	Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein	🇸🇴 Somalia	1969–1969	6
74	Nigmatilla Yuldashev	🇺🇿 Uzbekistan	2016–2016	6
75	Adolfo Rodríguez Saá	🇦🇷 Argentina	2001–2001	7
76	Frank Forde	🇦🇺 Australia	1945–1945	7
77	Konstantin Muraviev	🇧🇬 Bulgaria	1944–1944	7
78	José Dolores Estrada	🇳🇮 Nicaragua	1910–1910	7
79	Fernando Pereira	🇸🇹 São Tomé and Príncipe	2003–2003	7
80	Reinhold Mitterlehner	🇦🇹 Austria	2016–2016	8
81	José Ramón de Loayza Pacheco	🇧🇴 Bolivia	1828–1828	8
82	Pedro Vélez	🇲🇽 Mexico	1829–1829	8
83	Nyam-Osoryn Tuyaa	🇲🇳 Mongolia	1999–1999	8
84	Ignacy Daszyński	🇵🇱 Poland	1918–1918	8
85	Muse Hassan Sheikh Sayid Abdulle	🇸🇴 Somalia	2012–2012	8
86	Lúcio Lara	🇦🇴 Angola	1979–1979	9
87	Simon Vratsian	🇦🇲 Armenia	1920–1920	9
88	Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah	🇰🇼 Kuwait	2006–2006	9
89	Artur Śliwiński	🇵🇱 Poland	1922–1922	9
90	Francisco Xavier do Amaral	🇹🇱 Timor-Leste	1975–1975	9
91	Tekin Arıburun	🇹🇷 Turkey	1973–1973	9
92	Eusebio Guilarte Mole	🇧🇴 Bolivia	1847–1848	10
93	Pascal Nyabenda	🇧🇮 Burundi	2020–2020	10
94	Boris Silayev	🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan	1998–1999 (2 terms)	10
95	Manuel Gomes da Costa	🇵🇹 Portugal	1926–1926	10
96	Paulo Muwanga	🇺🇬 Uganda	1980–1980	10
97	Carlos Lacoste	🇦🇷 Argentina	1981–1981	11
98	Vitalie Pîrlog	🇲🇩 Moldova	2009–2009	11
99	Torcuato Fernández-Miranda	🇪🇸 Spain	1973–1973	11
100	Ruben Zackhras	🇲🇭 Marshall Islands	2009–2009	12