Vice president

Vice President or vice president is the "person who acts or is empowered to act as the president", who, within the organizational hierarchy of a government, is generally refers to an official (career or de facto) or, within a company, a business man or woman, with a rank below the president.

The name incorporates the Latin prefix vice- ('instead of'). The vice president may not replace the president while he is alive and legally the head of government. The president's trips do not disqualify him from his position, since there are no reasons for him to leave the Presidency for the mere fact of being away from his headquarters.

In certain countries, a vice president acts as president when the incumbent is vacated and when he does not hold power again. In countries where there are nominees for the presidency, it is possible that the position of vice president does not exist, because the nominees are potential vice presidents, who must abide by the assembly or the presidential mandate to occupy the presidency. In other cases, the figure of the presidential nominee coexists with that of the vice president: for example, in El Salvador two presidential nominees are elected who will occupy, in order of nomination, the positions of president and vice president in the absence of one of them. these (art. 155 of the Constitution).

In some countries it is designated to carry out volunteer actions, donations, among others.

Although there are doubts regarding the feminine variant because nouns ending in -nte (such as seer, patient, servient, etc.) are generally common in terms of gender, the Nueva grammar de la lengua española (2009) indicates that «the alternations of -nte/-nta […] do not affect the meaning of the noun, but rather the sex of the designated person", so it is valid to build its feminine by changing the final e for the a i> to form vice-president, a word included in the Dictionary of the Spanish language along with president. Due to its ending, vice-presidente can also function as a common noun in terms of gender and precede the corresponding feminine article ("the seer", "the patient", "the servant", "the vice-president").