President of the Confederated Peoples

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The President of the Confederated Peoples is the presiding member of the Confederal Council, the Confederated Peoples' seven-member political executive. The President, elected by the Confederal Assembly for a one year term, chairs the meetings of the Confederal Council, undertakes special representational duties and is treated for some purposes as the Head of State of the Confederated Peoples, as is the Confederal Council as a whole and the Head of the Commonwealth. The President is considered primus inter pares or first among equals and correspondingly has no powers over the other Councilors or their departments. The President continues to head his department during his presidency.

Competencies

The Confederal President shares the role of head of state with the Confederal Council as a whole and with the Head of the Commonwealth. In addition to controlling her own department, the President carries out certain duties belong to a head of state within the Confederated Peoples. Three times a year, the President formally addresses the Confederal Assembly on the state of the nation's affairs and on the Council's hopes and plans for the future. These addresses are considered to be major political and policy speeches as well as very ceremonial events and are completely distinct from the President's more technical reports to the Assembly as the head of her particular department. They are also distinct from political speeches which the President might give to other audiences or over television or the radio. The President also awards all honors granted by the Confederated Peoples as such. The heads of the individual departments might also issue internal awards to their own employees but these are properly considered civil service honors and not true Confederal honors. The Head of the Commonwealth does not bestow honors as the Head of the Commonwealth but as the sovereign of various Members and thus these are also not Confederal but Member honors.

The President also conducts state visits to foreign powers. The President can only travel abroad at the invitation of a foreign head of state and is received by foreign governments as a head of state. However, foreign heads of state are received not by the President individually but by the Council as a whole and, if they are monarchs, they are additionally received by the Head of the Commonwealth in a separate ceremony.