section_path: Succession
section_name: Succession
paragraph_text: Succession
  
  Should the office of the president become vacant due to resignation, impeachment, permanent inability to perform the duties of office, or death while in office, the president of the Senate becomes acting president. If the president of the Senate is also vacant when the presidency becomes vacant, the president of the Chamber of Deputies becomes acting president.
  
  Neither has to relinquish their position as president of their respective Legislative House for the duration of the ad interim term. The acting president cannot address the Parliament, dissolve the Parliament, nor call for a referendum (the impeachment referendum after a motion of suspension is called by Parliament). The vacancy of the office cannot be longer than three months. While the president is suspended, the office is not considered vacant.