Key facts
- Style
- The Right Honourable , His Excellency
- Type
- Head of state , Commander-in-chief
- Residence
- Shital Niwas
- Appointer
- Indirect election
- Term length
- Five years, renewable once
- Constituting instrument
- Constitution of Nepal (2015)
- Inaugural holder
- Ram Baran Yadav
- Formation
- 28 May 2008 ; 18 years ago ( 2008-05-28 )
- Deputy
- Vice President of Nepal
- Salary
- रु 1,05,015 per month
- Website
- Office of the President of Nepal
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The president of Nepal , officially the president of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is the head of state of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal. The president is the nominal head of the executive, the first citizen of the country, and the supreme commander of the Nepalese Armed Forces. Ram Chandra Paudel is the 3rd and current president since 13 March 2023.
The president is indirectly elected by an electoral college comprising the Federal Parliament of Nepal and the provincial assemblies of each of Nepal's seven provinces, who themselves are all directly elected.