The current president is Hussein Mwinyi.

The president is also the chairman of the Revolutionary Council, whose members are appointed by the president, and some of which must be selected from the House of Representatives.

Presidential terms are for five years, and a candidate may be re-elected only once.

[1] Following the Zanzibar Revolution in 1964, Abeid Karume became the first president of Zanzibar, as leader of the Afro-Shirazi Party.

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