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The co-princes of Andorra are jointly the heads of state (Catalan: cap d'estat) [1] of the Principality of Andorra, a landlocked microstate lying in the Pyrenees between France and Spain. Founded in 1278 by a treaty between the bishop of Urgell and the Count of Foix , this unique diarchical arrangement has persisted through the Middle Ages to ...
Andorra is a parliamentary co-principality with the bishop of Urgell and the president of France as co-princes. [136] This peculiarity makes the president of France, in his capacity as prince of Andorra , an elected monarch, although he is not elected by a popular vote of the Andorran people.
French President (and Co-Prince of Andorra) Charles de Gaulle visiting Andorra in October 1967. Andorra and France have an unusual and long relationship. Andorra was created by Charlemagne as a buffer state between France and the Umayyad conquest of Hispania. [1]
Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron (French: [emanɥɛl makʁɔ̃]; born 21 December 1977) is a French politician who has been President of France since 2017. Born in Amiens, Macron studied philosophy at Paris Nanterre University.
France renounces the position of co-prince. [2] 1793–1806 Francesc Antoni de la Dueña y Cisneros (1753–1821) 1797–1812 Emperor of the French House of Bonaparte; Napoleon I (1769–1821) 1806–1812 Andorra was briefly annexed to the First French Empire from 1812 to 1813. [2] Bishop of Urgell King of France House of Bourbon
Before 1993, Andorra's political system had no clear division of powers into executive, legislative, and judicial branches. A constitution ratified and approved in 1993 establishes Andorra as a sovereign parliamentary democracy that retains the Bishop of Urgell and president of France as co-princes and heads of state. However, the head of ...
The president of France (ex officio also a co-prince of Andorra) is elected by direct popular vote to a five-year term.If the office falls vacant before the end of five years, an election to a new five-year term is held, generally within 20 to 35 days of the vacancy.
Andorra is the only country where Catalan is the sole official language, even though only about 31,000 of the 11,530,160 speakers live there. Andorra is the only country in the world to have an elected monarch. (One of the Co-Princes of Andorra is elected as the President of France by the people of that country).