Vice President of Argentina

The **Vice President of Argentina** is a senior official of Argentina who integrates the electoral team accompanying the citizen who is elected President of Argentina, and whose main function is to replace him in case of temporary absence, or in case of permanent absence for disability, death or resignation. In Argentine history, there have also been de facto vice presidents, imposed as a result of coups d'état, although not all governments headed by de facto presidents had the presence of a vice president. This is the second highest political position in Argentina.

The Vice President replaces the President if the President cannot do the job. The vice president is not a member of the National Executive Power and only assumes the presidency in the absence or inability of the president to exercise power.  During the time that the vice president does not exercise the Executive Power, his function is to be president of the Senate, without a vote unless there is a tie, in which case he has the power to break the tie. The Argentine Constitution does not have any provision on the replacement of a Vice President.  The usual constitutional practice has been to leave the position vacant in the event of death, disability, removal or resignation.

## Overview

The Argentine Constitution does not provide for the replacement of a vice president should their tenure be ended for any reason, and their office was thus made vacant on seventeen occasions since 1861.

The 1994 amendments modified the vice president's term—as well as the president's—from one unrenewable six-year term to two four-year terms renewable upon reelection of the joint ticket. The Vice President acts also as the president of the Senate.

The current incumbent, Victoria Villarruel, took office on December 10, 2023.

### Argentine Confederation (1854–1861)

|rowspan="2" width="2.5%"||rowspan="2" width="10%"|Portrait|rowspan="2" width="25%"|Name|colspan="2" width="31.4%"|Term of office|rowspan="2"|Elections|rowspan="2"|Political party|rowspan="2"|President|rowspan="2" width="26%"|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||**Salvador María del Carril** <small>(1798–1883)</small>|5 March 1854|5 March 1860|1853|Unitarian|Justo José de Urquiza|align=left|||||||||
||**Juan Esteban Pedernera** <small>(1796–1886)</small>|5 March 1860|4 November 1861|1860|Unitarian|Santiago Derqui|align=left|Assumed the presidency after the resignation of Santiago Derqui.||||||||
|colspan=7|Juan Esteban Pedernera|align=left|Juan Esteban Pedernera resigned.|||||||||||||

### Argentine Republic (1861–present)

|rowspan="2" width="2.5%"||rowspan="2" width="10%"|Portrait|rowspan="2" width="25%"|Name|colspan="2" width="31.4%"|Term of office|rowspan="2"|Elections|rowspan="2"|Political party <small>(Coalition)</small>|rowspan="2"|President|rowspan="2" width="26%"|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|colspan=7|rowspan="3"|Bartolomé Mitre|align=left|||||||||||||
||**Marcos Paz** <small>(1811–1868)</small>|12 October 1862|2 January 1868|1862|Liberal|align=left|Acting president between 12 June 1865 and 2 January 1868. Died in office.|||||||||
|colspan=7|align=left|||||||||||||||
||**Adolfo Alsina** <small>(1829–1877)</small>|12 October 1868|12 October 1874|1868|Autonomist|Domingo Sarmiento|align=left|||||||||
||**Mariano Acosta** <small>(1825–1893)</small>|12 October 1874|12 October 1880|1874|PAN|Nicolás Avellaneda|align=left|||||||||
||**Francisco Bernabé Madero** <small>(1816–1896)</small>|12 October 1880|12 October 1886|1880|PAN|Julio Argentino Roca|align=left|||||||||
||**Carlos Pellegrini** <small>(1846–1906)</small>|12 October 1886|6 August 1890|1886|PAN|Miguel Juárez Celman|align=left|Assumed the presidency after the resignation of Miguel Juárez Celman.||||||||
|colspan=7|Carlos Pellegrini|align=left||||||||||||||
||**José Evaristo Uriburu** <small>(1831–1914)</small>|12 October 1892|22 January 1895|1892|PAN|Luis Sáenz Peña|align=left|Assumed the presidency after the resignation of Luis Sáenz Peña.||||||||
|colspan=7|José Evaristo Uriburu|align=left||||||||||||||
||**Norberto Quirno Costa** <small>(1844–1915)</small>|12 October 1898|12 October 1904|1898|PAN|Julio Argentino Roca|align=left|||||||||
||**José Figueroa Alcorta** <small>(1860–1931)</small>|12 October 1904|12 March 1906|1904|PAN - Modernist|Manuel Quintana|align=left|Acting president between 25 January 1906 and 12 March 1906. Assumed the presidency after the death of Manuel Quintana.||||||||
|colspan=7|José Figueroa Alcorta|align=left||||||||||||||
||**Victorino de la Plaza** <small>(1840–1919)</small>|12 October 1910|9 August 1914|1910|PAN|Roque Sáenz Peña|align=left|Assumed the presidency after the death of Roque Sáenz Peña.||||||||
|colspan=7|Victorino de la Plaza|align=left||||||||||||||
||**Pelagio Luna** <small>(1867–1919)</small>|12 October 1916|25 June 1919|1916|UCR|rowspan="2"|Hipólito Yrigoyen|align=left|Died in office.|||||||
|colspan=7|align=left|||||||||||||||
||**Elpidio González** <small>(1875–1951)</small>|12 October 1922|12 October 1928|1922|UCR|Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear|align=left|||||||||
||**Francisco Beiró** <small>(1876–1928)</small>|colspan=2|rowspan=2|1928|UCR|rowspan=2|Hipólito Yrigoyen|align=left|Died before taking office.|||||||
||**Enrique Martínez** <small>(1887–1938)</small>|12 October 1928|6 September 1930|UCR|align=left|Acting president between 5 and 6 September 1930. Ousted from office by a _coup d'état_.||||||||||
||**Enrique Santamarina** <small>(1870–1937)</small>|6 September 1930|20 October 1930|—|—|rowspan="2"|José Félix Uriburu|align=left|Resigned.|||||||
|colspan=7|align=left|||||||||||||||
||**Julio Argentino Pascual Roca** <small>(1873–1942)</small>|20 February 1932|20 February 1938|1931|PDN <small>(Concordancia)</small>|Agustín Pedro Justo|align=left|||||||||
||**Ramón Castillo** <small>(1873–1944)</small>|20 February 1938|27 June 1942|1937|PDN <small>(Concordancia)</small>|Roberto María Ortiz|align=left|Acting president between 3 July 1940 and 27 June 1942. Assumed the presidency after the resignation of Roberto María Ortiz.||||||||
|colspan=7 rowspan=2|Ramón Castillo|align=left||||||||||||||
|Arturo Rawson|align=left|Beginning of the Revolution of '43.||||||||||||||
||**Sabá Sueyro** <small>(1889–1943)</small>|7 June 1943|15 October 1943|—|Military|rowspan="2"|Pedro Pablo Ramírez|align=left|Died in office.|||||||
||**Edelmiro Julián Farrell** <small>(1887–1980)</small>|15 October 1943|9 March 1944|—|Military|align=left|Acting president between 25 February 1944 and 9 March 1944. Assumed the presidency after the resignation of Pedro Pablo Ramírez.|||||||||
|colspan=7|rowspan="3"|Edelmiro Julián Farrell|align=left|||||||||||||
||**Juan Perón** <small>(1895–1974)</small>|8 July 1944|10 October 1945|—|Military|align=left|Removed from office.|||||||||
||**Juan Pistarini** <small>(1882–1956)</small>|10 October 1945|4 June 1946|—|Military|align=left|End of the Revolution of '43.|||||||||
|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|**Hortensio Quijano** <small>(1884–1952)</small>|height="60px"|4 June 1946|3 April 1952|1946|UCR-JR|rowspan="5"|Juan Perón|align=left|Died in office.||||
|colspan=2|1951|Peronist|align=left|Reelected in 1951, but died before taking office on 4 June 1952.||||||||||||
|colspan=7|align=left|||||||||||||||
||**Alberto Teisaire** <small>(1891–1963)</small>|7 May 1954|16 September 1955|1954|Peronist|align=left|Elected in the only vice-presidential election in the country. Ousted from office by the Revolución Libertadora.|||||||||
|colspan=7 rowspan=2|align=left height=30px|||||||||||||||
|rowspan=2|Eduardo Lonardi|align=left height=30px||||||||||||||
|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|**Isaac Rojas** <small>(1906–1993)</small>|rowspan="2"|23 September 1955|rowspan="2"|1 May 1958|rowspan="2"|—|rowspan="2"|Military|align=left height=30px||||
|Pedro Eugenio Aramburu|align=left|End of the Revolución Libertadora.||||||||||||||
||**Alejandro Gómez** <small>(1908–2005)</small>|1 May 1958|18 November 1958|1958|UCR-I|rowspan="2"|Arturo Frondizi|align=left|Resigned.|||||||
|colspan=7 rowspan=2|align=left height=40px|||||||||||||||
|José María Guido|align=left|||||||||||||||
|height="100px"||**Carlos Humberto Perette** <small>(1915–1992)</small>|12 October 1963|28 June 1966|1963|UCR-P|Arturo Umberto Illia|align=left|Ousted from office by a coup d'état.|||||||
|colspan=7|_Argentine Revolution_|align=left|Military dictatorship.|||||||||||||
||**Vicente Solano Lima** <small>(1901–1984)</small>|25 May 1973|13 July 1973|March 1973|PCP <small>(FREJULI)</small>|Héctor José Cámpora|align=left|Resigned along with president Héctor José Cámpora.||||||||
|colspan=7|Raúl Alberto Lastiri|align=left||||||||||||||
||**Isabel Perón** <small>(born 1931)</small>|12 October 1973|1 July 1974|Sept. 1973|PJ <small>(FREJULI)</small>|Juan Perón|align=left|Acting president between 29 June 1974 and 1 July 1974. Assumed the presidency after the death of Juan Perón.||||||||
|colspan=7 rowspan=2|Isabel Perón|align=left||||||||||||||
|_National Reorganization Process_|align=left|Military dictatorship.||||||||||||||
||**Víctor Hipólito Martínez** <small>(1924–2017)</small>|10 December 1983|8 July 1989|1983|UCR|Raúl Alfonsín|align=left|||||||||
||**Eduardo Duhalde** <small>(born 1941)</small>|8 July 1989|10 December 1991|1989|PJ <small>(FREJUPO)</small>|rowspan="3"|Carlos Menem|align=left|Resigned to become Governor of Buenos Aires Province.|||||||
|colspan=7|align=left|||||||||||||||
||**Carlos Ruckauf** <small>(born 1944)</small>|8 July 1995|10 December 1999|1995|PJ|align=left||||||||||
||**Carlos Álvarez** <small>(born 1948)</small>|10 December 1999|6 October 2000|1999|Broad Front <small>(Alianza)</small>|rowspan="2"|Fernando de la Rúa|align=left|Resigned.|||||||
|colspan=7 rowspan=3|align=left height=20px|||||||||||||||
|Rodríguez Saá|align=left|||||||||||||||
|Duhalde|align=left|||||||||||||||
||**Daniel Scioli** <small>(born 1957)</small>|25 May 2003|10 December 2007|2003|PJ <small>(FPV)</small>|Néstor Kirchner|align=left|||||||||
||**Julio Cobos** <small>(born 1955)</small>|10 December 2007|10 December 2011|2007|UCR <small>(FPV)</small>|rowspan="2"|Cristina Fernández de Kirchner|align=left||||||||
||**Amado Boudou** <small>(born 1962)</small>|10 December 2011|10 December 2015|2011|PJ <small>(FPV)</small>|align=left||||||||||
||**Gabriela Michetti** <small>(born 1965)</small>|10 December 2015|10 December 2019|2015|PRO <small>(Cambiemos)</small>|Mauricio Macri|align=left|Although her mandate begun on 10 December 2015 at 00:00 hs., it was only after she swore in the Congress at 11:45 hs. that she took office as Vice President.||||||||
||**Cristina Fernández de Kirchner** <small>(born 1953)</small>|10 December 2019|10 December 2023|2019|PJ <small>(FdT)</small>|Alberto Fernández|align=left|Previously served as First Lady of Argentina (2003-2007) and President of Argentina (2007-2015).||||||||
||**Victoria Villarruel** <small>(born 1975)</small>|10 December 2023|Incumbent|2023|PD <small>(LLA)</small>|Javier Milei|align=left|||||||||

### Affiliation Keys

|width="6px"||Abbreviation|Party name (English)|Party name (Spanish)|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background:Lightblue;"||Unitarian|**Unitarian**|Unitarios|
|style="background:White;"||Liberal|**Liberal Party**|Partido Liberal|
|style="background:#30D5C8;"||Autonomist|**Autonomist Party**|Partido Autonomista|
|style="background:#30D5C8;"||PAN|**National Autonomist Party**|Partido Autonomista Nacional|
|bgcolor=#30D5C8||PAN-Modernist|**National Autonomist Party - Modernist Line**|Partido Autonomista Nacional - Línea Modernista|
|style="background:#C90016;"||UCR|**Radical Civic Union**|Unión Cívica Radical|
|style="background:#E9D66B;"||PDN|**National Democratic Party**|Partido Demócrata Nacional|
|style="background:#E9D66B;"||Concordancia|**Concordancia**|Concordancia|
|style="background:#138808;"||Military|**Armed Forces of the Argentine Republic**|Fuerzas Armadas de la República Argentina|
|style="background:#75AADB;"||UCR-JR|**Radical Civic Union Renewal Board**|Unión Cívica Radical Junta Renovadora|
|style="background:#75AADB;"||Peronist|**Peronist Party**|Partido Peronista|
|style="background:#C90016;"||UCR-I|**Intransigent Radical Civic Union**|Unión Cívica Radical Intransigente|
|style="background:#C90016;"||UCR-P|**People's Radical Civic Union**|Unión Cívica Radical del Pueblo|
|style="background:#75AADB;"||PCP|**Conservative People's Party**|Partido Conservador Popular|
|style="background:#75AADB;"||PJ|**Justicialist Party**|Partido Justicialista|
|style="background:#75AADB;"||FREJULI|**Justicialist Liberation Front**|Frente Justicialista de Liberación|
|style="background:#75AADB;"||FREJUPO|**Justicialist Front of Popular Unity**|Frente Justicialista de Unidad Popular|
|style="background:#172683;"||Broad Front|**Broad Front**|Frente Grande|
|style="background:#C90016;"||Alianza|**Alliance for Work, Justice and Education**|Alianza para el Trabajo, la Justicia y la Educación|
|style="background:#75AADB;"||FPV|**Front for Victory**|Frente para la Victoria|
|style="background:yellow;"||PRO|**Republican Proposal**|Propuesta Republicana|
|style="background:yellow;"||Cambiemos|**Let's Change**|Cambiemos|
|style="background:#75AADB;"||FDT|**Everyone's Front**|Frente de Todos|
|style="background:"||LLA|**Liberty Advances**|La Libertad Avanza|

## Infobox (official post)

- **post**: Vice President of Argentina
- **native name**: _Vicepresidente de la Nación Argentina_
- **image**: Victoria Villarruel 2023.jpg
- **incumbent**: Victoria Villarruel
- **incumbentsince**: 10 December 2023
- **termlength**: Four years, renewable once
- **inaugural**: Salvador María del Carril
- **formation**: Argentine Constitution of 1853
- **website**: [http://prensa.argentina.ar/listado.php?id=20 Secretaría de Comunicación Pública. Vicepresidencia.]