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| A '''vice president''' is |
A '''vice president''' is a person in government who helps the President. There is only one Vice President. If something happened to the President, the Vice President would be charge of the country. | ||
| The President and Vice President are elected together in an election. A Vice President does not run for office alone. | |||
| In American slang, the American Vice President is sometimes referred to as the ''V. P.'' or the ''veep''. The spouse of a vice president may be known as the ] or Second Gentleman. | |||
| Sometimes, the Vice President goes to events that the President cannot make it too. | |||
| ==Vice presidents in government== | |||
| In politics, a vice president is a ] whose primary function is to replace the president on the event of his or her death or resignation. | |||
| Vice Presidents are often elected jointly with the president as his or her ], elected separately, or appointed independently after the president's election. | |||
| Governments with vice presidents generally have only one person holding this role and generally if the president is not present, dies, resigns, or is otherwise unable to fulfill his job, the vice president will serve as a president. In many ]s, the vice president does not wield much day to day political power, but is still considered an important member of the ]. Many Vice Presidents in the ] hold the symbolic position of ]. | |||
| The vice president can sometimes assume some of the symbolic and less important functions of president, such as some ceremonial functions and events that the actual president may be too busy to attend; the ], for example often attends funerals of world leaders on behalf of the president. In this capacity the vice president may thus assume the role of a '']'' symbolic ], a position which is lacking in a system of government where the powers of head of state and government are fused. | |||
| Because of the localization of democratic structures and linguistic differances, the vice-presidential position can mean different things in different democracies. In ]s, most states do not have a vice president but instead name another office-holder, often the chairperson or president of the upper house of parliament or even the ] to act as effective vice president. In the ], a collective vice presidency exists called the ], made up of chairmen of both houses of the ] (parliament), along with the Irish Chief Justice. In ], the ''de facto'' vice president is the ] (upper house) and in ] it is the speaker of the ]. In the ], the ] serves as the ] vice president, although he has much more power than the ]. In ], the situation is somewhat vice versa as the ] is the symbolic ] and performes the duties commonly assigned to a vice-president, while the ] is the actual ]. | |||
| ==Vice presidents in business== | |||
| In ], vice-president refers to a rank in senior or middle management. Most ] that use this ] generally have large numbers of persons with the title of vice president with different types of vice president (i.e. vice president for finance). | |||
| A corporate vice-president is rarely "second in line" to succeed the corporate president following death or resignation. Such decisions are usually left up to the ]. | |||
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Revision as of 02:36, 1 December 2005
A vice president is a person in government who helps the President. There is only one Vice President. If something happened to the President, the Vice President would be charge of the country.
The President and Vice President are elected together in an election. A Vice President does not run for office alone.
Sometimes, the Vice President goes to events that the President cannot make it too.