Vice President of Syria

The **vice president of Syria** (), officially the **vice president of the Syrian Arab Republic**, is the second-highest political role in the Syrian government after the president. In the event that the president is removed from power, dies in office or can no longer carry out their duties, the vice president may become acting president.

### Second Syrian Republic (1950–1958)

|rowspan="2"|No.|rowspan="2"|Portrait|rowspan="2"|Name|colspan="3"|Term of office|colspan="2" rowspan="2"|Political party|rowspan="2"|President(s)|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|Maamun al-Kuzbari|rowspan="2"|25 February 1952|rowspan="2"|28 February 1954|rowspan="2"||||
|rowspan="2"|Arab Liberation Movement|Fawzi Selu||||||||||
|Adib Shishakli||||||||||||

### United Arab Republic (1958–1961)

|rowspan="2"|No.|rowspan="2"|Portrait|rowspan="2"|Name|colspan="3"|Term of office|colspan="2" rowspan="2"|Political party|rowspan="2"|President(s)|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||Sabri al-Asali|7 March 1958|7 October 1958|||||||||
|National Party|rowspan="9"|Gamal Abdel Nasser||||||||||
||Akram al-Hawrani|7 March 1958|19 September 1960|||||||||
|Ba'ath Party||||||||||||
||Abdel Latif Boghdadi|7 March 1958|29 September 1961|||||||||
|National Union||||||||||||
||Abdel Hakim Amer|7 March 1958|29 September 1961|||||||||
|National Union||||||||||||
||Nur al-Din Kahala|20 September 1960|29 September 1961|||||||||
|National Union||||||||||||
||Abdul Hamid al-Sarraj|16 August 1961|29 September 1961|||||||||
|National Union||||||||||||
||Kamal el-Din Hussein|16 August 1961|29 September 1961|||||||||
|National Union||||||||||||
||Zakaria Mohieddin|16 August 1961|29 September 1961|||||||||
|National Union||||||||||||
||Hussein el-Shafei|16 August 1961|29 September 1961|||||||||
|National Union||||||||||||

### Ba'athist Syria (1963–2024)

|rowspan="2"|No.|rowspan="2"|Portrait|rowspan="2"|Name|colspan="3"|Term of office|colspan="2" rowspan="2"|Political party|rowspan="2"|President(s)|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|Muhammad Umran|rowspan="2"|8 March 1963|rowspan="2"|15 December 1964|rowspan="2"||||
|rowspan="2"|Ba'ath Party|Lu'ay al-Atassi||||||||||
|rowspan="3"|Amin al-Hafiz|||||||||||
||Nureddin al-Atassi|15 December 1964|28 December 1965|||||||||
|Ba'ath Party||||||||||||
||Shibli al-Aysami|28 December 1965|23 February 1966|||||||||
|Ba'ath Party||||||||||||
||Mahmoud al-Ayyubi|22 February 1971|7 August 1976|||||||||
|Syrian Ba'ath Party|rowspan="2"|Hafez al-Assad||||||||||
||Rifaat al-Assad|11 March 1984|8 February 1998|||||||||
|Syrian Ba'ath Party||||||||||||
||Abdul Halim Khaddam|11 March 1984|6 June 2005|||||||||
|Syrian Ba'ath Party|rowspan="2"|Hafez al-Assad Bashar al-Assad||||||||||
||Zuhair Masharqa|11 March 1984|21 February 2006|||||||||
|Syrian Ba'ath Party||||||||||||
||Farouk al-Sharaa|21 February 2006|19 July 2014|||||||||
|Syrian Ba'ath Party|rowspan="3"|Bashar al-Assad||||||||||
||Najah al-Attar|23 March 2006|8 December 2024|||||||||
|Syrian Ba'ath Party||||||||||||
||Faisal Mekdad|23 September 2024|8 December 2024|||||||||
|Syrian Ba'ath Party||||||||||||

## Infobox (official post)

- **post**: Vice President of the Syrian Arab Republic
- **insignia**: Emblem of Syria (2025–present).svg
- **insigniacaption**: Coat of arms of Syria
- **insigniasize**: 120px
- **incumbent**: _Vacant_
- **incumbentsince**: 8 December 2024
- **style**: Mr/Madam Vice President (informal)
Excellency, His/Her Excellency (diplomatic)
- **appointer**: President of Syria, President
- **seat**: Damascus, Syria
- **constituting instrument**: Constitutional Declaration of the Syrian Arab Republic, Constitutional Declaration (2025)
- **termlength**: No term limits, serves at the President's pleasure
- **inaugural**: Maamun al-Kuzbari