Death, Resignation or Removal From Office of The President
Should a President die, resign or be removed from office, a Vice-President succeeds as President.
The other officers in the line of succession do not become President in those cases. Instead, the next available person in line merely becomes Acting President, and the Constitution dictates that, whenever both the presidency and the vice-presidency become vacant, new elections are to be held. So in the case of an Acting President taking office due to a double vacancy in the presidency and vice-presidency, the Acting President serves only until the special election takes place and the elected President is sworn-in.
If the second vacancy triggering elections takes place in the last two years of the presidential term, the National Congress is empowered and required to elect the President. If the double vacancy of the presidency and vice-presidency takes place in the first half of the four-year presidential term, however, a presidential election by popular vote is held.
In any event, the President so elected merely finishes the pending presidential term.
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