The Uitvoerend Bewind (Dutch for Executive Authority) was the name of the government of the Batavian Republic between 1798 and 1801. The president of the Uitvoerend Bewind was head of state of the Batavian Republic. Unitarian Democrats The political group of unitarian democrats was dissatisfied with the slowness of the progress of the Dutch parliament, the National Assembly of the Batavian Republic. They were in favour of a central authority, opposed federalism, and wanted general elections. Conservatives and moderates stood against such demands, and the country had become un-governable, without prospects of drafting a constitution. Under the leadership of Pieter Vreede, the unitarian democrats engineered a coup d'état on January 22, 1798, with the help of general Herman Willem Daendels, and began to rule as the Uitvoerend Bewind, which soon became highly unpopular among their own supporters in the country. Second Uitvoerend Bewind A second coup followed on June 12, 1798, with the goal of removing the impopular rule. An interim government was installed, which would reign until new elections would bring a new Representative Assembly, still under universal suffrage (This was replaced by census suffrage after the coup d'état of 1801). Between 1798 and 1801, the president of the Uitvoerend Bewind was the head of state of the Batavian Republic, and not as previously, the president of the Assembly. Dutch heads of state between 1798 and 1801 {| ! From ! To ! |- valign=top | align="right" style="background:#f5fffa" | 25 January 1798 | align="right" style="background:#f5fffa" | 24 February 1798 | Pieter Vreede | rowspan=5 style="background:#dcdcdc" | UitvoerendBewind |- | align="right" style="background:#f5fffa" |25 February 1798 | align="right" style="background:#f5fffa" |24 March 1798 | Wijbo Fijnje |- | align="right" style="background:#f5fffa" |25 March 1798 | align="right" style="background:#f5fffa" |24 April 1798 | Stefanus Jacobus van Langen |- | align="right" style="background:#f5fffa" |25 April 1798 | align="right" style="background:#f5fffa" |24 May 1798 | Berend Wildrik |- | align="right" style="background:#f5fffa" |25 May 1798 | align="right" style="background:#f5fffa" |12 June 1798 | Johan Pieter Fokker |- valign=top | rowspan=5 align="right" style="background:#f5fffa" | 14 June 1798 | rowspan=5 align="right" style="background:#f5fffa" | 17 August 1798 | Jacobus Spoors | rowspan=5 align="left" style="background:#f5f5f5" | IntermediairBestuur(InterimGovernment) |- | style="background:#90ee90" | Gerrit Jan Pijman |- | Alexander Gogel |- | Reinier Willem Tadama |- | Abraham Jacques la Pierre |- valign=top | align="right" style="background:#f5fffa" | 17 August 1798 | align="right" style="background:#f5fffa" | 16 September 1798 | style="background:#e0ffff" | Albert Willem Hoeth | rowspan=39 align="left" style="background:#dcdcdc"