Editing Vice president (section)

==In government==
{{See also|List of current vice presidents}}
[[File:Joe Biden visits China, August 2011 17.jpg|thumb|Former U.S. Vice President [[Joe Biden]] and his Chinese counterpart [[Xi Jinping]] in 2011]]
[[File:First Vice-President Mehriban Aliyeva meets with former Latvian President 02.jpg|thumb|Azerbaijan's vice president [[Mehriban Aliyeva]] with former Latvian president [[Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga]] in 2017]]
In [[government]], a vice president is a person whose primary responsibility is to act in place of the [[President (government title)|president]] on the event of the president's death, resignation or incapacity. Vice presidents are either elected jointly with the president as their [[running mate]], or more rarely, appointed independently after the president's election.

Most governments with vice presidents have one person in this role at any time, although in some countries there are two or more vice presidents–an extreme case being Iran's [[Vice President of Iran|14 vice presidents]]. If the president is not present, dies, resigns, or is otherwise unable to fulfill their duties, the vice president will generally serve as president. In many [[presidential system]]s, vice presidents may not wield much day-to-day political power, but are still considered important members of the [[Cabinet (government)|cabinet]], while other vice presidents might not have any purpose beyond acting in place of the president on the event of the president's death, resignation or incapacity. A few vice presidents in the Americas also hold the position of [[president of the senate]]; this is the case, for example, in Argentina, the United States, and Uruguay. The vice president sometimes assumes some of the ceremonial duties of the president, such as attending diplomatic functions and events that the actual president may be too busy to attend; the [[Vice President of the United States]], for example, often attends funerals of world leaders on behalf of the [[President of the United States|president]]. A vice president, in some cases, may also be appointed by the president as the head of a ministry in the cabinet or to lead certain executive initiatives designated by the president. In parliamentary or semi-presidential systems, a vice president may coexist with a prime minister, as is [[Vice President of India|the case in India]] and [[Vice President of Namibia|Namibia]], but the presence of both offices concurrently is rare. 
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