06-11-2017, 09:19 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-20-2017, 01:58 PM by ZpaceJ0ck0.)
Mexico's Pedro Lascuráin holds the world record for the shortest presidency in the history of the world, lasting less than an hour (between 15 to 45 minutes, to be exact).
Why his presidency lasted for such a small amount of time? Well, basically, under the 1857 Constitution of Mexico, the vice-president, the attorney general, the foreign secretary and then the interior secretary stood next in line to the presidency. As well as Madero, Huerta had ousted Vice-President José María Pino Suárez and Attorney General Adolfo Valles Baca, so, to give the coup d'état some appearance of legality, he had Lascuráin, as foreign secretary, assume the presidency, appoint him as his interior secretary – making Huerta next in line to the presidency – and then resign. The presidency thus passed to Huerta. In other words: The presidency of Lascuráin was nothing but a tactical step in Huerta’s plans to become the president of Mexico.
Source:
https://tcmam.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/t...residency/ (the only one I could find in English)
Why his presidency lasted for such a small amount of time? Well, basically, under the 1857 Constitution of Mexico, the vice-president, the attorney general, the foreign secretary and then the interior secretary stood next in line to the presidency. As well as Madero, Huerta had ousted Vice-President José María Pino Suárez and Attorney General Adolfo Valles Baca, so, to give the coup d'état some appearance of legality, he had Lascuráin, as foreign secretary, assume the presidency, appoint him as his interior secretary – making Huerta next in line to the presidency – and then resign. The presidency thus passed to Huerta. In other words: The presidency of Lascuráin was nothing but a tactical step in Huerta’s plans to become the president of Mexico.
Source:
https://tcmam.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/t...residency/ (the only one I could find in English)