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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	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	Jean-Hilaire Aubame	🇬🇦 Gabon	1964–1964	1
12	Anastasios Charalambis	🇬🇷 Greece	1922–1922	1
13	Carlos Enrique Díaz de León	🇬🇹 Guatemala	1954–1954	1
14	János Hadik	🇭🇺 Hungary	1918–1918	1
15	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.
16	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.
17	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.
18	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.
19	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.
20	Manuel María Ramírez	🇨🇴 Colombia	1877–1877	2
21	Zakaria Mohieddin	🇪🇬 Egypt	1967–1967	2
	Named successor when Nasser resigned after Egypt's defeat in the 1967 Six-Day War. Mass demonstrations demanding Nasser stay brought him back within two days, before Mohieddin ever governed.
22	Ado Birk	🇪🇪 Estonia	1920–1920	2
23	Frédéric François-Marsal	🇫🇷 France	1924–1924	2
24	Charles Dupuy	🇫🇷 France	1894–1894	2
25	Didjob Divungi Di Ndinge	🇬🇦 Gabon	2009–2009	2
	Gabon's vice-president, who briefly held acting power in June 2009 after the death of Omar Bongo, who had ruled for 41 years, before the Senate president took over as interim leader.
26	Óscar Mendoza Azurdia	🇬🇹 Guatemala	1957–1957	2
27	Carmen Pereira	🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau	1984–1984	2
	As president of the National Assembly, Pereira was acting head of state of Guinea-Bissau for three days in May 1984, making her the first woman to lead an African state.
28	Bharrat Jagdeo	🇬🇾 Guyana	1999–1999	2
29	Felipe Neri Medina	🇭🇳 Honduras	1839–1839	2
30	Ferenc Keresztes-Fischer	🇭🇺 Hungary	1942–1942	2
31	Abdelmalek Benhabyles	🇩🇿 Algeria	1992–1992	3
32	Arturo Rawson	🇦🇷 Argentina	1943–1943	3
33	Said Ali Kemal	🇰🇲 Comoros	1995–1995	3
34	Combo Ayouba	🇰🇲 Comoros	1995–1995	3
35	Ramón Rodríguez	🇸🇻 El Salvador	1850–1850	3
36	Hérard Abraham	🇭🇹 Haiti	1990–1990	3
37	Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz	🇮🇶 Iraq	1966–1966	3
38	Dimitar Stanchov	🇧🇬 Bulgaria	1907–1907	4
39	Pedro Dartnell	🇨🇱 Chile	1925–1925	4
40	José María Caminero	🇩🇴 Dominican Republic	1844–1844	4
41	Maya Tskitishvili	🇬🇪 Georgia	2021–2021	4
42	Alexandros Othonaios	🇬🇷 Greece	1933–1933	4
43	Gustavo Adolfo Espina Salguero	🇬🇹 Guatemala	1993–1993	4
44	Baudilio Palma	🇬🇹 Guatemala	1930–1930	4
45	Peter Gabrovski	🇧🇬 Bulgaria	1943–1943	5
46	Rosalía Arteaga Serrano	🇪🇨 Ecuador	1997–1997	5
47	Marcelino Mejía	🇭🇳 Honduras	1876–1876	5
48	Gyula Peidl	🇭🇺 Hungary	1919–1919	5
49	Hartwig Löger	🇦🇹 Austria	2019–2019	6
50	Pedro Blanco Soto	🇧🇴 Bolivia	1828–1829	6
51	Chérif Sy	🇧🇫 Burkina Faso	2015–2015	6
52	Gilbert Diendéré	🇧🇫 Burkina Faso	2015–2015	6
53	François Ngeze	🇧🇮 Burundi	1993–1993	6
54	Pedro Bartolomé Benoit	🇩🇴 Dominican Republic	1965–1965	6
55	Lorenzo Zepeda	🇸🇻 El Salvador	1858–1858	6
56	Giorgi Baramidze	🇬🇪 Georgia	2007–2007	6
57	Nikolaos Stratos	🇬🇷 Greece	1922–1922	6
58	Otto Liebe	🏳️ Kingdom of Denmark	1920–1920	6
59	Adolfo Rodríguez Saá	🇦🇷 Argentina	2001–2001	7
60	Frank Forde	🇦🇺 Australia	1945–1945	7
61	Konstantin Muraviev	🇧🇬 Bulgaria	1944–1944	7
62	Tesfaye Genre Kidan	🇪🇹 Ethiopia	1991–1991	7
63	Ansumane Mané	🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau	1999–1999	7
64	Salvador Aguirre	🇭🇳 Honduras	1919–1919	7
65	José María Bustillo	🇭🇳 Honduras	1839–1839	7
66	Reinhold Mitterlehner	🇦🇹 Austria	2016–2016	8
67	José Ramón de Loayza Pacheco	🇧🇴 Bolivia	1828–1828	8
68	Sufi Abu Taleb	🇪🇬 Egypt	1981–1981	8
69	Louis Lansana Beavogui	🇬🇳 Guinea	1984–1984	8
70	Lúcio Lara	🇦🇴 Angola	1979–1979	9
71	Simon Vratsian	🇦🇲 Armenia	1920–1920	9
72	Walter Scheel	🇩🇪 Germany	1974–1974	9
73	Elfego Hernán Monzón Aguirre	🇬🇹 Guatemala	1954–1954	9
74	Eusebio Guilarte Mole	🇧🇴 Bolivia	1847–1848	10
75	Pascal Nyabenda	🇧🇮 Burundi	2020–2020	10
76	Said Atthoumani	🇰🇲 Comoros	1978–1978	10
77	Mariano Garrigó	🇭🇳 Honduras	1839–1839	10
78	Carlos Lacoste	🇦🇷 Argentina	1981–1981	11
79	Carlos Lemos Simmonds	🇨🇴 Colombia	1998–1998	12
80	Dimitrios Valvis	🇬🇷 Greece	1886–1886	12
81	Juan José Alvarado	🇭🇳 Honduras	1839–1839	12
82	Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean	🇦🇷 Argentina	1982–1982	13
83	Alexandre-Ferdinand Nguendet	🇨🇫 Central African Republic	2014–2014	13
84	Francisco Antonio Pinto	🇨🇱 Chile	1829–1829	14
85	Vicente Gómez	🇸🇻 El Salvador	1854–1854	14
86	Mikheil Saakashvili	🇬🇪 Georgia	2005–2005	14
87	Eduard Shevardnadze	🇬🇪 Georgia	1993–1993	14
88	Panagiotis Poulitsas	🇬🇷 Greece	1946–1946	14
89	Veríssimo Correia Seabra	🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau	2003–2003	14
90	Heinrich Lammasch	🇦🇹 Austria	1918–1918	15
91	Alberto Natusch	🇧🇴 Bolivia	1979–1979	15
92	Archbishop Damaskinos Papandreou	🇬🇷 Greece	1945–1945	15
93	Magnús Guðmundsson	🇮🇸 Iceland	1926–1926	15
94	Zlatko Tomčić	🇭🇷 Croatia	2000–2000	16
95	Marcos Antonio Cabral	🇩🇴 Dominican Republic	1876–1876	16
96	Manuel María Orellana Contreras	🇬🇹 Guatemala	1930–1931	16
97	Yacouba Isaac Zida	🇧🇫 Burkina Faso	2014–2014	17
98	Earle Page	🇦🇺 Australia	1939–1939	19
99	Bartolomé Blanche	🇨🇱 Chile	1932–1932	19
100	Nikolaos Triantafyllakos	🇬🇷 Greece	1922–1922	19