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Shortest-serving leaders: full top 100

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

#	Leader	Country	In office	Days
1	Víctor González Fuentes	🇧🇴 Bolivia	1978–1978	<1
2	Hyppolite Ramaroson	🇲🇬 Madagascar	2009–2009	<1
3	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.
4	Fazlul Haque	🇧🇩 Bangladesh	2007–2007	1
5	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.
6	Pedro Opaso	🇨🇱 Chile	1931–1931	1
7	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.
8	Haribon Chebani	🇰🇲 Comoros	1989–1989	1
9	Carlos Manuel Piedra	🇨🇺 Cuba	1959–1959	1
10	Eddy Kapend	🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of the Congo	2001–2001	1
11	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.
12	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.
13	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.
14	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.
15	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.
16	Manuel María Ramírez	🇨🇴 Colombia	1877–1877	2
17	Abdelmalek Benhabyles	🇩🇿 Algeria	1992–1992	3
18	Arturo Rawson	🇦🇷 Argentina	1943–1943	3
19	Said Ali Kemal	🇰🇲 Comoros	1995–1995	3
20	Combo Ayouba	🇰🇲 Comoros	1995–1995	3
21	Dimitar Stanchov	🇧🇬 Bulgaria	1907–1907	4
22	José María Caminero	🇩🇴 Dominican Republic	1844–1844	4
23	Peter Gabrovski	🇧🇬 Bulgaria	1943–1943	5
24	Rosalía Arteaga Serrano	🇪🇨 Ecuador	1997–1997	5
25	Hartwig Löger	🇦🇹 Austria	2019–2019	6
26	Pedro Blanco Soto	🇧🇴 Bolivia	1828–1829	6
27	Chérif Sy	🇧🇫 Burkina Faso	2015–2015	6
28	Gilbert Diendéré	🇧🇫 Burkina Faso	2015–2015	6
29	François Ngeze	🇧🇮 Burundi	1993–1993	6
30	Pedro Bartolomé Benoit	🇩🇴 Dominican Republic	1965–1965	6
31	Adolfo Rodríguez Saá	🇦🇷 Argentina	2001–2001	7
32	Frank Forde	🇦🇺 Australia	1945–1945	7
33	Konstantin Muraviev	🇧🇬 Bulgaria	1944–1944	7
34	Reinhold Mitterlehner	🇦🇹 Austria	2016–2016	8
35	José Ramón de Loayza Pacheco	🇧🇴 Bolivia	1828–1828	8
36	Lúcio Lara	🇦🇴 Angola	1979–1979	9
37	Simon Vratsian	🇦🇲 Armenia	1920–1920	9
38	Eusebio Guilarte Mole	🇧🇴 Bolivia	1847–1848	10
39	Pascal Nyabenda	🇧🇮 Burundi	2020–2020	10
40	Said Atthoumani	🇰🇲 Comoros	1978–1978	10
41	Carlos Lacoste	🇦🇷 Argentina	1981–1981	11
42	Carlos Lemos Simmonds	🇨🇴 Colombia	1998–1998	12
43	Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean	🇦🇷 Argentina	1982–1982	13
44	Alexandre-Ferdinand Nguendet	🇨🇫 Central African Republic	2014–2014	13
45	Francisco Antonio Pinto	🇨🇱 Chile	1829–1829	14
46	Heinrich Lammasch	🇦🇹 Austria	1918–1918	15
47	Alberto Natusch	🇧🇴 Bolivia	1979–1979	15
48	Zlatko Tomčić	🇭🇷 Croatia	2000–2000	16
49	Marcos Antonio Cabral	🇩🇴 Dominican Republic	1876–1876	16
50	Yacouba Isaac Zida	🇧🇫 Burkina Faso	2014–2014	17
51	Earle Page	🇦🇺 Australia	1939–1939	19
52	Bartolomé Blanche	🇨🇱 Chile	1932–1932	19
53	Horacio Liendo	🇦🇷 Argentina	1981–1981	20
54	Elías Fernández Albano	🇨🇱 Chile	1910–1910	21
55	Juan Bautista Quirós Segura	🇨🇷 Costa Rica	1919–1919	21
56	John McEwen	🇦🇺 Australia	1967–1968	22
57	Jacinto de Castro	🇩🇴 Dominican Republic	1878–1878	22
58	Julio Enrique Moreno	🇪🇨 Ecuador	1940–1940	22
59	Pedro Guillermo	🇩🇴 Dominican Republic	1865–1865	23
60	Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada	🇨🇺 Cuba	1933–1933	24
61	Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli	🇧🇷 Brazil	1961–1964 (2 terms)	26
62	Néstor Guillén	🇧🇴 Bolivia	1946–1946	27
63	Domingo Matheu	🇦🇷 Argentina	1811–1811	28
64	Sebastián Ágreda	🇧🇴 Bolivia	1841–1841	29
65	Isa Gambar	🇦🇿 Azerbaijan	1992–1992	30
66	Francisco Ramón Vicuña	🇨🇱 Chile	1829–1829	35
67	Saturnino Lizano Gutiérrez	🇨🇷 Costa Rica	1882–1882	35
68	Euclídes de Angulo	🇨🇴 Colombia	1908–1908	36
69	Antonio Pons	🇪🇨 Ecuador	1935–1935	36
70	Arthur Fadden	🇦🇺 Australia	1941–1941	39
71	Vicente López y Planes	🇦🇷 Argentina	1827–1827	41
72	Fejzi Alizoti	🇦🇱 Albania	1914–1914	44
73	Rabah Bitat	🇩🇿 Algeria	1978–1979	44
74	Joaquín Riascos	🇨🇴 Colombia	1867–1867	47
75	Héctor José Cámpora	🇦🇷 Argentina	1973–1973	49
76	Moustadroine Abdou	🇰🇲 Comoros	2019–2019	49
77	Ibrahim Biçakçiu	🇦🇱 Albania	1944–1944	50
78	Eduardo Lonardi	🇦🇷 Argentina	1955–1955	50
79	José María Rojas Garrido	🇨🇴 Colombia	1866–1866	51
80	Vlatko Pavletić	🇭🇷 Croatia	1999–2000	54
81	Carlos Dávila	🇨🇱 Chile	1932–1932	59
82	Benigno Filomeno de Rojas	🇩🇴 Dominican Republic	1865–1865	59
83	Cyprien Ntaryamira	🇧🇮 Burundi	1994–1994	60
84	Manuel Blanco Encalada	🇨🇱 Chile	1826–1826	62
85	Manuel María Gautier	🇩🇴 Dominican Republic	1889–1889	62
86	Carl Vaugoin	🇦🇹 Austria	1930–1930	65
87	Johan Casimir Ehrnrooth	🇧🇬 Bulgaria	1881–1881	65
88	Charles Tupper	🇨🇦 Canada	1896–1896	68
89	Aníbal Zañartu	🇨🇱 Chile	1901–1901	68
90	Vicente Lucio Salazar	🇪🇨 Ecuador	1895–1895	68
91	Yaqub Mammadov	🇦🇿 Azerbaijan	1992–1992	69
92	Eliseo Payán	🇨🇴 Colombia	1887–1888	69
93	Bartolomé Calvo	🇨🇴 Colombia	1861–1861	70
94	Iajuddin Ahmed	🇧🇩 Bangladesh	2006–2007	74
95	Mariano Enrique Calvo Cuellar	🇧🇴 Bolivia	1841–1841	75
96	Marin Raykov	🇧🇬 Bulgaria	2013–2013	77
97	Andrey Gurov	🇧🇬 Bulgaria	2026–2026	78
98	Abderrahmane Farès	🇩🇿 Algeria	1962–1962	79
99	John Turner	🇨🇦 Canada	1984–1984	79
100	Guido Vildoso	🇧🇴 Bolivia	1982–1982	81