A deputy prime minister or vice prime minister is, in some countries, a government minister who can take the position of acting prime minister when the prime minister is temporarily absent.
 The position is often likened to that of a vice president, but is significantly different even though both positions are "number two" offices.
 The position of deputy prime minister should not be confused with the Canadian Deputy Minister of the Prime Minister of Canada, a nonpolitical civil servant position.
 Also, the Deputy Prime Minister of Canada does not act as a "number two".
Luísa Dias Diogo (born 11 April 1958) was Prime Minister of Mozambique from February 2004 to January 2010.
 She replaced Pascoal Mocumbi, who had been Prime Minister for the previous nine years.
 Before becoming Prime Minister, she was Minister of Planning and Finance, and she continued to hold that post until February 2005.
 She was the first female Prime Minister of Mozambique.
 Diogo represents the party FRELIMO, which has ruled the country since independence in 1975.
Helle Thorning-Schmidt (] ; born 14 December 1966) is a former Danish politician who was Prime Minister of Denmark from 2011 to 2015, and the Leader of the Social Democrats from 2005 to 2015.
 She is the first woman to hold either post.
 Following defeat in 2015, she announced that she would step down as both Danish Prime Minister and Social Democratic party leader.
 Ending her political career in April 2016, she is the chief executive of the NGO Save the Children.
B. Janardhana Poojary (born 27 April 1937) is a senior politician from Indian National Congress party.
 He was a former Union Minister and Karnataka's Congress President.
 During the Prime Ministership of Smt.
 Indira Gandhi he had been appointed as Union Minister of State for Finance in 1982 and he continued to be Union Minister of State for Finance during the tenure of Rajiv Gandhi until 1987.
 Later Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi appointed Shree B. Janardhan Poojary as Union Minister of State for Rural Development from 1987 to 1989.
 Shree Rajiv Gandhi also appointed Shree B. Janardhan Poojary as General Secretary of All India Congress Committee in 1990 as well as President of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee in 1990.
 He continued to be General Secretary of All India Congress Committee during the tenure of Prime Minister Shree P. V. Narasimha Rao up to 1996.
 After Shree Rajiv Gandhi Shree Rajiv Gandhi his wife All India Congress Committee President (AICC President) & United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Chairperson Smt.
 Sonia Gandhi also appointed Shree B. Janardhan Poojary as President of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee in 2003 for the second time.
 He continued as President of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee up to 2005.
Han Myeong-sook (born March 24, 1944; Korean: 한명숙 ] ) was the Prime Minister of South Korea from April 2006 to March 2007.
 She is South Korea's first female prime minister (second female prime minister overall if the acting premiership of Chang Sang is included).
 She was from the United New Democratic Party (UNDP) as a member of the Korean National Assembly (representative) for Ilsan-gab, and is a graduate of Ewha Womans University in Seoul with a degree in French literature.
 She resigned as Prime Minister on March 7, 2007 and declared her presidential candidacy.
 But she did not succeed in the nominations.
 In 2008 she ran for parliament, but was not elected.
 However, in January 2012 she was elected leader of the main oppositional Democratic United Party (DUP) before the April legislative elections and became a member of parliament.
 But the liberals did not manage to defeat the ruling Saenuri Party and Han stepped down as party leader in April 2012.
 In August 2015, Han was convicted of receiving illegal donations at the amount of 900 million KRW, and sentence to two years in prison.
 She is ineligible to run for public office for ten years after her prison term.
 She became the first former prime minister of the Republic of Korea to serve a prison time.
Yingluck Shinawatra (Thai: ยิ่งลักษณ์ ชินวัตร , rtgs: "Yinglak Chinnawat" ,  ] ; born 21 June 1967), nicknamed Pu (Thai: ปู ,  ] , meaning "crab"), is a Thai businesswoman and politician, she is a member of the Pheu Thai Party who became the 28th Prime Minister of Thailand following the 2011 election.
 Yingluck was Thailand's first female Prime Minister and its youngest in over 60 years.
 Also, she holds the distinction as the world's first female of Chinese descent to have had led the government of a UN member state.
 She was removed from office on 7 May 2014 by a controversial Constitutional Court decision.
 She is the third Pheu Thai Prime minister removed from office by the constitution court.
Dame Mary Eugenia Charles, DBE (15 May 1919 – 6 September 2005) was a Dominican politician who was Prime Minister of Dominica from 21 July 1980 until 14 June 1995.
 She was Dominica's first, and to date only, female prime minister, as well as the nation's longest-serving prime minister.
 She was the second female prime minister in the Caribbean after Lucina da Costa of the Netherlands Antilles, and the first woman elected in her own right as head of government in the Americas.
 She was the world's third longest-serving female Prime Minister, behind Indira Gandhi of India and Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka, and the world's longest continuously serving female Prime Minister ever.
 Charles was also Dominica's first female lawyer.
The Swedish constitution of 1974 allows the Prime Minister of Sweden to appoint one of the Ministers in the cabinet as Deputy Prime Minister ("biträdande statsminister", also unofficially known as "vice statsminister", "Vice Prime Minister"), in case the Prime Minister for some reason is prevented from performing his or her duties.
 However, if a Deputy Prime Minister has not been appointed, the Minister in the cabinet who has served the longest time (and if there are several with equal experience the one who is oldest) takes over as head of government.
 Note that the person acting as Prime Minister does not do so on a permanent basis: if a Prime Minister dies, resigns or loses a vote of confidence in the Riksdag, the Speaker of the Riksdag will then confer with the parties of the Riksdag and propose a new Prime Minister, who must be tolerated by a majority of the Riksdag.
 If the Prime Minister has resigned or lost a vote of confidence, he or she will remain the head of a government "ad interim" until the new Prime Minister assumes his or her office.
 The only case where the governmental line of succession becomes relevant is when the Prime Minister dies (upon which the person next in the line of succession serves as the head of a government "ad interim") or when the Prime Minister is on leave or for any other reason incapable of serving, but still remains in office.
 This might be compared to the Presidential line of succession in the United States, where the person next in line assumes the Presidency throughout the remainder of the term if the President dies, resigns or is impeached.
1864 is a 2014 Danish television historical drama series written and directed by Ole Bornedal.
 It is based on two books by Tom Buk-Swienty about the Second Schleswig War of 1864 between Denmark and Prussia and Austria which ended in defeat for Denmark and the loss of a quarter of its territory to Prussia.
 It follows two brothers from a remote village on Funen who enlist in the Danish army just before the outbreak of war, and experience the horrors of combat in Schleswig.
 It also features actual historical figures such as Danish prime minister D. G. Monrad and Prussian prime minister Otto von Bismarck.
 It is the most expensive Danish TV series to be made so far.
SAMAK ("Arbejderbevægelsens nordiske samarbejdskommitté"), or the Joint Committee of the Nordic Social Democratic Labour Movement, assembles the social democratic parties and labour councils in the Nordic countries.
 SAMAK consists of all social democratic parties and trade union organisations in the Nordic countries, including in Greenland, the Faroe Islands and Åland.
 The President of the committee is Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the Prime Minister of Denmark and chairman of the Danish Social Democrats.
 Inger Segelström is the General Secretary.

Question: Which countries are assembled on the committee of which the first female Danish Prime Minister is president?
Answer: the Nordic countries