section_path: Abstract
section_name: Abstract
paragraph_text: The co-presidents of Nicaragua (Spanish: Co-presidentes de Nicaragua), officially known as the presidency of the Republic of Nicaragua (Spanish: Presidencia de la República de Nicaragua), are the heads of state and government of Nicaragua.
  
  The office was created in the Constitution of 1854. From 1825 until the Constitution of 1839, the head of state of Nicaragua was styled simply as Head of State (Jefe de Estado), and from 1839 to 1854 as Supreme Director (Supremo Director).
  
  In 2025, the Constitution of Nicaragua was amended to provide for the powers of the presidency to be exercised by two co-presidents rather than a single officeholder. A male and female co-president are elected by universal suffrage to a six-year term. When the amendment was passed, the incumbent president Daniel Ortega and his wife and vice-president Rosario Murillo were declared to be the inaugural co-presidents, making Nicaragua the only country in the world ruled by a spousal diarchy. Ortega had previously served as president since 2007.