National
President of Botswana
How it's filled
- In plain words
- Elected by the National Assembly
- Exact method
- Botswana elects its President indirectly: presidential candidates are declared ahead of the general election and the candidate of the party or coalition that wins a majority of National Assembly seats is elected President. The President is also head of government and sits ex officio in the National Assembly.
- Chosen by
- National Assembly
- Seats
- 1
Who holds it now
- Duma Boko UDC since November 2024 Report Source: en.wikipedia.org, checked
Sources
- en.wikipedia.org · checked Wikipedia, Boko cabinet, read 2026-10-12: President and Vice-President. Fallback: Wikipedia (MediaWiki API wikitext, citing IEC Botswana and Mmegi), because the official parliament.gov.bw member list is not machine-readable (page returned only image placeholders); cross-checked against Wikidata and the Cabinet page. For: President of Botswana
- en.wikipedia.org · checked Wikipedia, 13th Parliament of Botswana and Boko cabinet, read 2026-10-12: mandates. Fallback: Wikipedia (MediaWiki API wikitext, citing IEC Botswana and Mmegi), because the official parliament.gov.bw member list is not machine-readable (page returned only image placeholders); cross-checked against Wikidata and the Cabinet page. For: Duma Boko, current term
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