List of current vice presidents and designated acting presidents
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This is a list of vice presidential or similar positions, and the current office holders:
Member states of the United Nations[]
Country | Vice President(s) | Since | |
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Afghanistan | Vice Emirs | Abdul Ghani Baradar (first) Mohammad Yaqoob (second) |
17 August 2021 17 August 2021 |
Albania | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Gramoz Ruçi (Speaker of the Parliament) | 9 September 2017 |
Algeria | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Salah Goudjil (President of the Council of the Nation) | 10 April 2019 |
Angola | Vice President | Bornito de Sousa | 26 September 2017 |
Argentina | Vice President | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner[a] | 10 December 2019 |
Armenia | Designated Acting President | Ararat Mirzoyan (President of the National Assembly of Armenia)[1] | 14 January 2019 |
Australia | Designated Acting Governor-General (ex officio) | Linda Dessau (Administrator of the Commonwealth and Governor of Victoria) | 1 November 2021 |
Austria | Presidential College | Wolfgang Sobotka (First President of the National Council) Doris Bures (Second President of the National Council) Norbert Hofer (Third President of the National Council) |
20 December 2017 9 November 2017 20 December 2017 |
Azerbaijan | Vice President | Mehriban Aliyeva[b] | 21 February 2017 |
Bangladesh | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury (Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad) | 30 April 2013 |
Belarus | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Roman Golovchenko (Prime Minister) | 4 June 2020 |
Benin | Vice President | Mariam Chabi Talata | 24 May 2021 |
Bolivia | Vice President | David Choquehuanca | 8 November 2020 |
Botswana | Vice President | Slumber Tsogwane | 4 April 2018 |
Brazil | Vice President | Hamilton Mourão | 1 January 2019 |
Bulgaria | Vice President | Iliana Iotova | 22 January 2017 |
Burundi | Vice President | Prosper Bazombanza | 24 June 2020 |
Burkina Faso | Vice-presidents of Patriotic Movement for Safeguard and Restoration | Vacant Vacant |
31 January 2022 31 January 2022 |
Cameroon | Designated Acting President (for temporary absences) | Joseph Ngute (Prime Minister)[2] | 4 January 2019 |
Designated Acting President (for absolute absences) | Marcel Niat Njifenji (President of the Senate)[3] | 12 June 2013 | |
Canada | Designated Acting Governor-General (ex officio) | Richard Wagner (Administrator of the Government of Canada and Chief Justice of Canada) | 18 December 2017 |
Cape Verde | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Jorge Pedro Maurício dos Santos (President of the National Assembly)[4] | 21 April 2016 |
Central African Republic | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Simplice Sarandji (President of the National Assembly)[5] | 5 May 2021 |
Chad | Vice-chairmen of Transitional Military Council | 20 April 2021 | |
Chile | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Gonzalo Blumel (Minister of the Interior and Public Security) | 28 October 2019 |
People's Republic of China | Vice President | Wang Qishan | 17 March 2018 |
Colombia | Vice President | Marta Lucía Ramírez | 1 August 2018 |
Comoros | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Mhoudine Sitti Farouata (Governor of Grande Comore) | 11 November 2021[c] |
Congo, Democratic Republic of the | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Modeste Bahati Lukwebo (President of the Senate) | 5 February 2021 |
Congo, Republic of the | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Pierre Ngolo (President of the Senate)[6] | 25 August 2011 |
Costa Rica | Vice Presidents | Epsy Campbell Barr (First) Marvin Rodríguez Cordero (Second) |
8 May 2018 8 May 2018 |
Croatia | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Gordan Jandroković (Speaker of Parliament) | 5 May 2017 |
Cuba | Vice President | Salvador Valdés Mesa | 10 October 2019 |
Cyprus | Vice President | vacant | 1974 |
Designated Acting President (de facto) | Annita Demetriou (President of the House of Representatives) | 10 June 2021 | |
Czech Republic | Presidential Commission | Radek Vondráček (Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies) Andrej Babiš (Prime Minister) |
22 November 2017 6 December 2017 |
Djibouti | Designated Acting President (for temporary absences) | Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed (Prime Minister) | 1 April 2013 |
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Dominican Republic | Vice President | Raquel Peña de Antuña | 16 August 2020 |
East Timor | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Aniceto Guterres Lopes (President of National Parliament)[7] | 19 May 2020 |
Ecuador | Vice President | Alfredo Borrero | 24 May 2021 |
Egypt | Vice President (for temporary absences) | vacant[8] | 23 April 2019 |
Designated Acting President (for absolute absences) | Hanafy El Gebaly (Speaker of the House of Representatives)[9] | 12 January 2021 | |
El Salvador | Vice President | Félix Ulloa | 1 June 2019 |
Equatorial Guinea | Vice President | Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue | 22 June 2016 |
Eritrea | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Isaias Afwerki ( Chairman of National Assembly) | 1993 |
Estonia | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Jüri Ratas (Speaker of the Riigikogu) | 18 March 2021 |
France | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Gérard Larcher (President of the Senate) | 2014 |
Fiji | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Kamal Kumar (Chief Justice) | 2019 |
Finland | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Sanna Marin (Prime Minister) | 10 December 2019 |
Gabon | Vice President | vacant | 21 May 2019 |
Designated Acting President | Lucie Milebou Aubusson (President of the Senate)[10] | 27 February 2015 | |
Gambia | Vice President | Isatou Touray | 15 March 2019 |
Georgia | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Archil Talakvadze (Chairperson of the Parliament) | 25 June 2019 |
Germany | Designated Acting Head of State (ex officio) | Bodo Ramelow (President of the Bundesrat and Minister President of Thuringia) | 1 November 2021 |
Ghana | Vice President | Mahamudu Bawumia | 7 January 2017 |
Greece | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Konstantinos Tasoulas (Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament) | 18 July 2019 |
Guatemala | Vice President | Guillermo Castillo | 14 January 2020 |
Guinea | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | (President of the National Assembly)[11] | 22 April 2020 |
Guinea-Bissau | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Cipriano Cassamá (President of the National People's Assembly) | 16 June 2014 |
Guyana | Vice Presidents | Mark Phillips (first) Bharrat Jagdeo |
2 August 2020 2 August 2020 |
Haiti | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Ariel Henry (Prime Minister) | 20 July 2021 |
Honduras | Vice Presidents | Salvador Nasralla (First) Doris Gutiérrez (Second) Renato Florentino (Third) |
27 January 2022 27 January 2022 27 January 2022 |
Hungary | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | László Kövér (Speaker of the National Assembly) | 6 August 2010 |
Iceland | Presidential Commission | Katrín Jakobsdóttir (Prime Minister) Steingrímur J. Sigfússon (Speaker of the Alþing) Þorgeir Örlygsson (President of the Supreme Court) |
30 November 2017 28 October 2017 1 January 2017 |
India | Vice President | Venkaiah Naidu | 11 August 2017 |
Indonesia | Vice President | Ma'ruf Amin | 20 October 2019 |
Iran | Vice Presidents | Mohammad Mokhber (First Vice-President) Others: (Vice-President for Economic Affairs) (Vice-President and Head of Plan and Budget Organisation) (Vice-President and Head of Administrative and Recruitment Affairs Organisation) Mohammad Dehghan (Vice-President for Legal Affairs) (Vice-President for Parliamentary Affairs) Sorena Sattari (Vice-President for Science and Technology Affairs) (Vice-President for Women and Family Affairs) (Vice-President and Head of Atomic Energy Organization) (Vice-President and Head of Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans Affairs) (Vice-President and Head of Department of Environment) (Vice-President for Executive Affairs) |
8 August 2021 25 August 2021 11 August 2021 5 September 2021 1 September 2021 20 August 2021 4 October 2013 1 September 2021 29 August 2021 12 September 2021 3 October 2021 5 September 2021 |
Iraq | Vice President[12] | vacant | 2 October 2018 |
Ireland | Presidential Commission | Frank Clarke (Chief Justice) Mark Daly (Cathaoirleach) Seán Ó Fearghaíl (Ceann Comhairle) |
2011 2016 2016 |
Israel | Designated Interim and Acting President (ex officio) | Mickey Levy (Speaker of the Knesset)[13] | 13 June 2021 |
Italy | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Elisabetta Casellati (President of the Senate) | 2018 |
Ivory Coast | Interim Vice President | vacant[14] | 8 July 2020 |
Kazakhstan | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Mäulen Äşimbaev (Chair of the Senate)[15] | 4 May 2020 |
Kenya | Deputy President | William Ruto | 9 April 2013 |
Kiribati | Vice President | Teuea Toatu | 19 June 2019 |
North Korea | Vice Presidents of State Affairs Commission (vice presidents de facto) |
Choe Ryong-hae (first vice president) Kim Tok Hun |
11 April 2019 30 September 2021 |
Vice Chairmen of the Standing Committee of Supreme People's Assembly (vice presidents de jure) | Pak Yong-il |
29 August 2019 30 September 2021 | |
South Korea | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Chung Sye-kyun (Prime Minister) | 14 January 2020 |
Kyrgyzstan | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Talant Mamytov (Speaker of the Supreme Council)[16] | 4 November 2020 |
Laos | Vice Presidents | Pany Yathortou Bounthong Chitmany |
22 March 2021 22 March 2021 |
Latvia | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Ināra Mūrniece (Speaker of the Saeima) | 4 November 2014 |
Liberia | Vice President | Jewel Taylor | 22 January 2018 |
Libya | Vice-Chairmen of the Presidential Council | Musa Al-Koni |
10 March 2021 10 March 2021 |
Lithuania | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen (Speaker of the Seimas) | 14 November 2016 |
Madagascar | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Rivo Rakotovao (President of the Senate) | 12 November 2017 |
Malawi | Vice President | Saulos Chilima | 3 February 2020 |
Malaysia | Timbalan Yang di-Pertuan Agong | Nazrin Shah of Perak | 13 December 2016 |
Maldives | Vice President | Faisal Naseem | 18 November 2018 |
Mali | Vice President | Vacant | 25 May 2021 |
Malta | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Angelo Farrugia (Speaker of the House of Representatives)[17] | 6 April 2013 |
Mauritania | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | (President of the National Assembly)[18] | 9 October 2018 |
Mauritius | Vice President | Eddy Boissezon | 2 December 2019 |
Mexico | Designated Provisional President (ex officio) | Adán Augusto López Hernández (Secretary of the Interior) | 26 August 2021 |
Micronesia | Vice President | Yosiwo P. George | 11 May 2015 |
Moldova | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Igor Grosu (President of the Moldovan Parliament)[19] | 29 July 2021 |
Mongolia | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Gombojavyn Zandanshatar (Chairman of the State Great Khural) | 1 February 2019 |
Montenegro | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Aleksa Bečić (President of the Parliament) | 23 September 2020 |
Mozambique | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Esperança Bias (President of the Assembly of the Republic)[20] | 13 January 2020 |
Myanmar | Vice Presidents | vacant (First) Henry Van Thio (Second) |
1 February 2021 30 March 2016 |
Namibia | Vice President | Nangolo Mbumba | 12 February 2018 |
Nepal | Vice President | Nanda Bahadur Pun | October 2015 |
New Zealand | Designated Acting Governor-General (ex officio) | Helen Winkelmann (Administrator of the government and Chief Justice of New Zealand) | 14 March 2019 |
Nicaragua | Vice President | Rosario Murillo[d] | 10 January 2017 |
Niger | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Ousseini Tinni (President of the National Assembly) | 25 March 2016 |
Nigeria | Vice President | Yemi Osinbajo | 29 May 2015 |
North Macedonia | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Talat Xhaferi (President of the Assembly) | 27 April 2017 |
Pakistan | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Sadiq Sanjrani (Chairman of the Senate) | 12 March 2018 |
Palau | Vice President | Uduch Sengebau Senior | 21 January 2021 |
Palestine | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Aziz Dweik (Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council) | 29 March 2006 |
Panama | Vice President | Jose Gabriel Carrizo | 1 July 2019 |
Paraguay | Vice President | Hugo Velázquez Moreno | 15 August 2018 |
Peru | Vice Presidents | Dina Boluarte (first) vacant (second) |
28 July 2021 23 March 2018 |
Philippines | Vice President | Leni Robredo | 30 June 2016 |
Poland | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Elżbieta Witek (Marshal of the Sejm) | 6 August 2019 |
Portugal | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues (Presidents of the Assembly of the Republic) | 23 October 2015 |
Romania | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Anca Dragu (President of the Senate) | 21 December 2020 |
Russia | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Mikhail Mishustin (Prime Minister) | 16 January 2020 |
Rwanda | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Augustin Iyamuremye (President of the Senate)[21] | 17 October 2019 |
Samoa | Deputy O le Ao o le Malo | Le Mamea Ropati | 2016 |
São Tomé and Príncipe | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | (President of the National Assembly)[22] | 22 November 2018 |
Senegal | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Moustapha Niasse (President of the National Assembly)[23] | 17 October 2019 |
Serbia | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Ivica Dačić (President of the National Assembly) | 22 October 2020 |
Seychelles | Vice President | Ahmed Afif | 26 October 2020 |
Sierra Leone | Vice President | Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh | 14 April 2018 |
Singapore | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Eddie Teo (Chairman of the Council of Presidential Advisers) | 2 January 2019 |
Slovakia | Presidential Commission | Boris Kollár (Speaker of the National Council) Eduard Heger (Prime Minister) |
20 March 2020 1 April 2021 |
Slovenia | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Dejan Židan (Speaker of the National Assembly) | 23 August 2018 |
Somalia | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | (President of the House of the People) | 30 April 2018. |
South Africa | Deputy President | David Mabuza | 26 February 2018 |
South Sudan | Vice Presidents of South Sudan | Riek Machar (first) James Wani Igga (second) Taban Deng Gai (third) Rebecca Nyandeng Garang (fourth) Hussein Abdelbagi (fifth) |
21 February 2020 21 February 2020 21 February 2020 21 February 2020 21 February 2020 |
Sri Lanka | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Mahinda Rajapaksa (Prime Minister) | 21 November 2019 |
Sudan | Deputy Chairman of the Transitional Sovereignty Council | Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo | 11 November 2021 |
Suriname | Vice President | Ronnie Brunswijk | 16 July 2020[24] |
Switzerland | Vice President | Ignazio Cassis | 1 January 2021 |
Syria | Vice Presidents[25] | vacant vacant |
17 July 2021 17 July 2021 |
Tajikistan | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Rustam Emomali (Chairman of the National Assembly) | 17 April 2020 |
Tanzania | Vice President | Philip Mpango | 31 March 2021 |
Togo | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Yawa Djigbodi Tségan (President of the National Assembly) | 24 January 2019 |
Trinidad and Tobago | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Christine Kangaloo (President of the Senate) | 23 September 2015 |
Tunisia | Designated Acting President (for temporary absences) | Najla Bouden (Prime Minister) | 11 October 2021 |
Designated Acting President (for absolute absences) | Rached Ghannouchi (Speaker of the Assembly of the Representatives of the People) | 13 November 2019 | |
Turkey | Vice President | Fuat Oktay | 10 July 2018 |
Turkmenistan | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Gülşat Mämmedowa (Speaker of the Assembly) | 30 March 2018 |
Uganda | Vice President | Jessica Alupo | 21 june 2021 |
Ukraine | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Ruslan Stefanchuk (Chairmen of the Verkhovna Rada) | 8 October 2021 |
United Arab Emirates | Vice President | Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum | 11 February 2006 |
United States | Vice President | Kamala Harris | 20 January 2021 |
Uruguay | Vice President | Beatriz Argimón | 1 March 2020 |
Vanuatu | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Gracia Shadrack (Speaker of the Parliament) | 20 April 2020 |
Venezuela | Vice President | Delcy Rodríguez | 14 June 2018 |
Vietnam | Vice President | Võ Thị Ánh Xuân | 6 April 2021 |
Yemen | Vice President (Aden) | Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar | 4 April 2016 |
Zambia | Vice President | Mutale Nalumango | 24 August 2021 |
Zimbabwe | Vice Presidents | Constantino Chiwenga vacant |
28 December 2017 1 March 2021 |
States recognised by some United Nations member states[]
Country | Vice President | Since | |
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Abkhazia | Vice President | Badr Gunba | 23 April 2020 |
Republic of China (Taiwan) | Vice President | Lai Ching-te | 20 May 2020 |
Kosovo | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Glauk Konjufca (Chairman of the Assembly of Kosovo) | 22 March 2021 |
Northern Cyprus | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | (Speaker of the Assembly of the Republic) | 18 January 2021 |
South Ossetia | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Gennady Bekoyev (Prime Minister)[26] | 29 August 2020 |
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Khatri Addouh (President of the Sahrawi National Council) | 10 July 2010 |
States recognised by no United Nations member states[]
Country | Vice President | Since | |
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Artsakh | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Arthur Tovmasyan (President of the National Assembly of Artsakh) | 21 May 2020 |
Donetsk People's Republic | Designated Acting Head (ex officio) | Alexander Ananchenko (Prime Minister) | 1 December 2018 |
Luhansk People's Republic | Designated Acting Head (ex officio) | Sergey Kozlov (Prime Minister) | 1 December 2018 |
Somaliland | Vice President | Abdirahman Saylici | 2010 |
Transnistria | Designated Acting President (ex officio) | Aleksandr Martynov (Prime Minister) | 17 December 2016 |
Alternative governments[]
Country | Vice President | Since | |
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National Unity Government of Myanmar | Vice President | Duwa Lashi La | 16 April 2021 |
Supreme Political Council of Yemen | Deputy Head of the Supreme Political Council (Sana'a) | 14 August 2016 | |
National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces / Syrian Interim Government | Vice Presidents | (First) (Second) (Third) |
12 July 2021 30 June 2019 12 July 2020 |
See also[]
- List of vice presidents in 2022
- List of current heads of state and government
- List of current presidents
- List of current prime ministers
Notes[]
- ^ Previously served as President of Argentina from 2007 to 2015
- ^ Currently serving as First Lady of Azerbaijan
- ^ Sitti Farouata has served as Governor of Grande Comore since 23 May 2019, but only became Designated Acting President on 11 November 2021 after President Azali Assoumani had been in office for more than 900 days
- ^ Currently serving as First Lady of Nicaragua
References[]
- ^ or Prime Minister if he cannot exercise his duties
- ^ or another member of the government if he cannot exercise his duties
- ^ or his deputy if he cannot exercise his duties
- ^ or First Vice President of the National Assembly if he cannot exercise his duties
- ^ or President of the Senate if he cannot exercise his duties
- ^ or President of the National Assembly if the President of the Senate cannot exercise his duties or Prime Minister if neither President of the Senate nor President of the National Assembly cannot exercise their duties
- ^ or his replacement if he cannot exercise his duties
- ^ or Prime Minister if there is no Vice-President or he cannot exercise his duties
- ^ or Speaker of the Shura Council if he cannot exercise his duties or President of the Supreme Constitutional Court if Parliament is dissolved
- ^ or Vice-President of Senate if he cannot exercise his duties
- ^ or Vice-Presidents of the National Assembly in the order of the seniority if he cannot exercise his duties
- ^ Speaker of the Council of Representatives becomes Designated Acting President in the case there is no Vice President
- ^ or a Deputy Speaker if the Speaker of the Knesset cannot exercise his duties
- ^ When Vice-President cannot exercise his duties the Prime Minister exercises the function of acting president
- ^ or Chair of the Mazhilis if the Chair of the Senate cannot exercise his duties or Prime Minister if neither Chair of the Senate nor Chair of the Mazhilis cannot exercise their duties
- ^ or Prime Minister if he cannot exercise their duties
- ^ or a person designated by the Prime Minister
- ^ or the President of Constitutional Council if he cannot exercise his duties
- ^ or Prime Minister if he cannot exercise their duties
- ^ or his substitute if he cannot exercise his duties
- ^ or President of the Chamber of Deputies if the President of the Senate cannot exercise his duties or Prime Minister if neither President of the Senate nor President of the Chamber of Deputies cannot exercise their duties
- ^ or his substitute if he cannot exercise his duties
- ^ or Vice Presidents of the National Assembly in the order of precedence if he cannot exercise his duties
- ^ "Live blog: Verkiezing president en vicepresident Suriname". De Ware Tijd (in Dutch). Retrieved 13 July 2020.
- ^ Prime Minister becomes Designated Acting President in the case there is no Vice President
- ^ or President of Parliament of South Ossetia if he cannot exercise his duties.
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