Since 1278, the leader of France and the bishop of Urgell, Spain, have been co-princes of Andorra, though in recent decades the nation’s head of government has been elected by parliament.
Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, while on a visit to Andorra, said that the people of the nation have the right to decide their own form of government and predicted that the institution of the co-principality will last for “many more centuries.”