The Hiverian president




The Hiverian presidency
After the parliamental elections the coalition parties may provide their candidates for the presidency. The president is elected for a term of four years and is thereafter allowed to run for a second term. Serving for three or more continuous terms was originally not allowed, but this rule was reversed by a constitutional amendment in 2023. When the president loses the support of the people he can be dismissed; for this a two-third majority in the Senate is needed. Besides being the head of state and government leader the president is also the supreme commander of the armed forces. He also informs the Senate and sees that the laws are correctly executed.

Titles
The president is addressed with the title "Président", in full "Monsieur le Président" or "Madame la Présidente".

The current president
The official Hiverian head of state is president Collignon. He is a media tycoon, billionaire and father of at least ten children. His biological children are Cherisse (F 1997), Valaine (M 1999), Elvy (F 2000), Fabiènne (F 2003), Quillermo (M 2005), Lorrance (F 2007) and Xavier (M 2010) and his adopted children are Babatunde (M 1995) and Yewande (F 1997) from Kumanga and Njinga (M 2013) from Angola. He also has an unknown number of illegitimate children. He has been married three times but is currently single. His official residence is in the Barbacane district in the capital St. Gérard.

President Jean Collignon (pictured on age 45)

President Collignon was born in La Rade on November 5, 1973. He studied journalism and law at the university of St. Gérard, after which he started working for the television channel Programme National and rose to the function of final editor. He later founded Canal Collignon, his personal media company in which Programme National was eventually absorbed. In the years thereafter he managed to take over almost all Hiverian papers, news sites, television channels and radio stations.
        In 2005 Collignon went into politics and headed the list of candidates for the social democratic party Résistance Nationale. He took part in the 2007 presidential elections against Auguste Lenoir and was elected with an unrealistic number of votes (95%), amongst other reasons because the media were almost completely on his side and, according to critics, because he committed large scale electoral fraud. In 2009 Collignon started the Fifth Frilandic-Hiverian War, which was unsuccessful. During the 2011 presidential elections he was again elected with a 95% result, which, according to international observers, was literally copied from the 2007 elections. In 2016 he managed to become president again by exploiting a loophole in the constitution. He was re-elected in 2019 and again in 2023, after a constitutional amendment allowed him to serve an unlimited number of terms.