President of the Palestinian Arab Republic
| President | Tenure | Party | Alliance | Election | Vice President | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 
|
Yasser Arafat
(1929-2009) |
15 November 1988 –
1 October 2001 |
Fatah | PLO | N/A | George Habash
(PFLP) | |
| 1989 | Khalil al-Wazir | |||||||
| 1993 | ||||||||
| 1997 | Farouk Kaddoumi | |||||||
| 2 | 
|
Edward Said
(1935 - 2003) (died in office) |
1 October 2001 –
24 September 2003 |
Fatah | PLO - APC | 2001 | Marwan Barghouti | |
| 3 | 
|
Marwan Barghouti
(b. 1959) |
24 September 2003 –
1 October 2005 |
Fatah | PLO - APC | Ilan Halevi
(Al-Jabha) | ||
| 4 | 
|
Nayef Hawatmeh
(1938 - 2006) (assassinated) |
1 October 2005 –
25 February 2006 |
Palestinian Communist Party | ASU | 2005 | Leila Khaled | |
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|
Leila Khaled
(b. 1944) |
25 February 2006 –
1 October 2009 |
Palestinian Communist Party | ASU | Ahmad Sa'adat | ||
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|
Azmi Bishara
(b. 1956) |
1 October 2009 –
1 October 2013 |
Fatah | PLO - APC | 2009 | Ramadan Shalah | |
| 7 | 
|
Marwan Barghouti
(b. 1959) |
1 October 2013 –
present |
Fatah | PLO - APC | 2013 | ||
| 2017 | Jamal Zahalka | |||||||