Category:Deputy Prime Ministers

This is a broad catch-all category for people who served as a vice premier or deputy head of government.

A deputy prime minister or vice prime minister is, in some countries, a government minister who can take the position of acting head of government when the incumbent head of government is temporarily absent. The position is often likened to that of a vice president, although it is not a perfect analogy. Not every deputy prime minister is in the line of succession to the prime minister in the way a vice president may in the line of succession to a president. Moreover, every deputy prime minister or vice premier is necessarily a "number two" office. The Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, for example, is a civil service position that exists at the pleasure of the prime minister, and is there inconsistent in its creation.