Vice President of Yemen
| Vice President of the Republic of Yemen | |
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| Style | His Excellency |
| Residence | Aden, Yemen |
| Appointer | President of Yemen |
| Inaugural holder | Ali Salem al Beidh |
| Formation | 22 May 1990 |
| Salary | 250,000 YER monthly[1] |
The Vice President of the Republic of Yemen is the second highest political position in Yemen.
Under the Constitution of Yemen, the Vice President is appointed by the President, and acts as constitutional successor of the President in case of a vacancy.[2] The Vice President assists the President in his duties. The President may delegate some of his functions to the Vice President.
The position of the Vice President of Yemen is currently occupied by Yemen Army general Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar since 4 April 2016, after being appointed by the President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi.[3] [4] [5]
List of Vice Presidents of the Yemen Arab Republic (1977-1990)
This office was created in 1977.[6][7][8]
| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of Office | Political Party | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took Office | Left Office | Time in Office | |||||
| Vice President | |||||||
| style="background:Template:Military Rule/meta/color" | | 1 | Abdul Karim Abdullah al-Arashi (1934–2006) |
11 October 1977 | 24 June 1978 | 256 days | Military | |
| First Vice President | |||||||
| style="background:Template:Military Rule/meta/color" | | 2 | Abdul Karim Abdullah al-Arashi (1934–2006) |
18 July 1978 | 22 May 1990 | 11 years, 308 days | Military (until 24 August 1982.) | |
| style="background:Template:General People's Congress (Yemen)/meta/color" | | General People's Congress | ||||||
| Second Vice President | |||||||
| style="background:Template:Military Rule/meta/color" | | 3 | 
|
Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani (1939–2011) |
October 1980 | December 1986 | 6 years, 61 days | Military (until 24 August 1982.) |
| style="background:Template:General People's Congress (Yemen)/meta/color" | | General People's Congress | ||||||
List of Vice Presidents of the Republic of Yemen (1990–present)
| № | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term start | Term end | Political Party | President (Term) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| style="background:Template:Yemeni Socialist Party/meta/color; color:white;"| 1 | .jpg)
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Ali Salem al Beidh علي سالم البيض (1939–)[9] |
22 May 1990 | 6 May 1994[10] | Yemeni Socialist Party | style="background:Template:General People's Congress (Yemen)/meta/color;" rowspan=3|Ali Abdullah Saleh (1990–2012) |
| Office abolished (21 May 1994–3 October 1994) | ||||||
| style="background:Template:General People's Congress (Yemen)/meta/color; color:black;"| 2 | 
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Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi عبدربه منصور هادي (1945–) |
3 October 1994 | 27 February 2012 | General People's Congress | |
| Vacant (27 February 2012–13 April 2015) | style="background:Template:General People's Congress (Yemen)/meta/color;" rowspan=3|Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi (since 2012) | |||||
| style="background:Template:Independent politician/meta/color; color:black;"| 3 | .jpg)
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Khaled Bahah خالد محفوظ بحاح (1965–) |
13 April 2015 | 3 April 2016 | Independent | |
| style="background:Template:General People's Congress (Yemen)/meta/color; color:black;"| 4 |
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Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar علي محسن صالح الأحمر (1945–) |
4 April 2016 | Incumbent | General People's Congress | |
References
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- ^ Deputy Chairman of the Presidential Council.
- ^ Dismissed during the 1994 Civil War.
