Usually, countries have one head of state. A President. Or a monarch.
Presidents get elected and monarchs inherit the job.
Let’s talk about the only semi-elective monarchy in Europe with two heads of state!
Andorra is a parliamentary co-principality with the president of France and the Catholic bishop of Urgell (Catalonia, Spain) as co-princes.
This makes the president of France Emanuel Macron, in his capacity as Prince of Andorra, an elected monarch, although he is not elected by a popular vote of the Andorran people, but by the people of France.
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