What Does an Acting President Do?

Acting president is acting president, also known as interim president. In a presidential country, when the president suddenly resigns and dies, in addition to the national constitution stipulating that the vice president takes over as a legitimate "president"; some countries do not have a vice president position or the constitution does not provide for the vice president to take over The person acting as the "head of state" is called the "acting president."

Acting president

Feng Guozhen

Acting President Feng Guozhen

After Yuan Shikai's death on June 6, 1916, Li Yuanhong succeeded as president, and on October 30, the parliamentary by-election of Feng Guozhen as vice president, based in Nanjing. In July 1917, Li Yuanhong and Duan Qirui broke out in a court battle, which triggered Zhang Xun's restoration and was suppressed by Duan Qirui. Li Yuanhong was forced to resign, Feng Guozhen went to Beijing as acting president, and Duan Qirui returned to prime minister.

At this time, Beiyang warlords were divided into Anhui and Zhi factions. At the same time, the three eastern provinces rose to non-Beiyang orthodoxy. Feng is a direct warlord. Feng advocated the peaceful reunification of the whole country and opposed Duan Qirui's "unification by force." Feng united Hubei Overseer Wang Zhanyuan, Jiangxi Overseer Chen Guangyuan, and Jiangsu Overseer Li Chun to fight Duan Qirui's Anhui system forces and renewed the court battle. On August 12, 1918, the new parliament (Anfu Congress) was opened. He believed that Acting President Feng Guozhen had expired. Duan Qirui declared his resignation, forcing Feng Guozhen to declare that he would not run for president. On September 4, Anfu Congress elected Xu Shichang as the new President of the Republic of China.

Acting President Li Zongren

On January 21, 1949, the Nanjing Central News Agency issued a statement from Chiang Kai-shek: "The war is still ongoing and the purpose of peace cannot be achieved. I cannot see the matter for any reason and decide to retire first. Vice President Li Zongren will assume the authority of the president.

The Kuomintang regime that Li Zongren took over was in dire straits: the entire Northeast and North China were "occupied", and the areas north of the Yangtze River in central and eastern China were occupied by the PLA. There are 3.2 million People's Liberation Army on the north bank of the Yangtze River, of which 1.2 million people are composed of two strategic clusters, East and West.

Acting President Li Zongren

On January 24, Li Zongren ordered the Executive Yuan to execute the following instructions on behalf of the President: 1. Change the National Bandit Command to the Office of the Chief of Military and Political Affairs; 2. Cancel the national martial law order; 3. Abolish the rioting and nation-building Corps; 4. Release political prisoners; 5. Lifting newspaper and magazine bans; 6. Revoking special criminal courts; 7. Orders to stop special services. A series of measures showed that Li Zongren wanted to change the image of the Nanjing government. However, all his efforts ended in failure, and power remained in the hands of Chiang Kai-shek.

In addition to Chiang Kai-shek, Sun Ke, the president of the Executive Yuan, also sang against him. As early as January 19, Sun Ke issued a notice to the envoys of various countries in Nanjing in the name of the Executive Yuan, asking them to move to Guangzhou-because the Executive Yuan would move to Guangzhou.

In this way, the National Government was divided into three: Chiang Kai-shek was remotely controlled in Xikou; Li Zongren was the "agent" in Nanjing; Sun Ke was based in Guangzhou-Mao Zedong wrote a mockery of this as "one country, three men".

On October 1, the People's Republic of China was established in Beijing. On October 13, the PLA troops approached Guangzhou, and Li Zongren had to fly to Chongqing. On November 16, Li Zongren's stomach disease recurred, and duodenal bleeding occurred. In addition, Jiang Zhongzheng's comeback was undercurrent, and he decided to transfer to Hong Kong for medical treatment. On December 5, he flew to the United States for medical treatment with his wife Guo Dejie, his two sons and his entourage.

On March 1, 1950, during the persuasion from all walks of life, Jiang Zhong was officially proclaiming "re-executing the presidency" in Taipei.

In March 1954, the National Assembly of Taiwan convened the second session of the first session. It was logical to adopt the President of the Nationalist Party, Chiang Kai-shek, as the second "authority leader" in Taiwan. ^[1]