President of New Scania

The President of the Reformed Federal Republic of New Scania is the head of state in the Republic of New Scania.

Current president is Mars-Iulius Rem.

Function and competences
The president is the head of state, representative of government (chief of government is High Commissioner and/or Prime Minister) and supreme commander of the Sconic armed forces. He is directly elected by the Sconic citizens with at least 18 years of age for a time period of 4 years. He can be reelected 2 times after the first mandate. In other words, one president can hold office for a maximum of 12 years.The president is endowed with diplomatic immunity. He has the function of specifying political guidelines for the current government and appoints its ministers, which are chosen by Liberal State Committee. Futhermore, he has the legal ability of amnesty. He cannot dissolve the parliament, the Supreme Council, since this competence is reserved for the Liberal State Committee.

Extraordinary end of presidency
The president can be dismissed with a two-thirds majority in a plebiscit plus a simple majority in the Supreme Council after the Supreme Court of Scania officially declared him incapable of office.

If the president resigns or is officially dismissed, the vice president is inaugurated as new president until a new election. If aforesaid rejects this, the Prime Minister comes into office for the meantime, what would lead to a new Prime Minister election.

Trivia
President is an official Sconic title, so that it can also be written with a majuscule.

In Sconic, the title is called President av Reformat Federal Respublik Nov Skania.