deputy PM
Prime minister's backup
Deputy PM is short for deputy prime minister—the second-ranking member of a government headed by a prime minister.
The deputy PM typically assumes leadership duties when the prime minister is unavailable and often holds another cabinet portfolio simultaneously: The deputy PM also serves as finance minister.
Some countries have multiple deputy PMs with different responsibilities.
- number twoDeputy or runner-up
- cabinetEnclosed storage furniture
- shadow cabinetOpposition's parallel leadership team
- ministerReligious leader or serve
- governmentAuthority over a state
parliament · second-in-command · right hand · prime minister · portfolio · coalition · Westminster · leadership · line of succession · political · appointment · successor · acting · interim · power vacuum · cabinet reshuffle · shadow · backbench
- politicianspoliticians, Joe Biden, congressman, Nancy Pelosi, senator
- Cabinetcabinet ministers, cabinet member, cabinet secretary, cabinet position, cabinet meetings
- UK OfficialsMP, cabinet minister, cabinet member, foreign secretary, prime minister
- governmentgovernment, ministries, legislature, judiciary, executive branch
deputy PMPrime Minister
Parliamentary head of state
PM · premier · head of government · chief executive · president
deputy PMordinary citizen
private citizen · head of state · supreme authority · absolute ruler · dictator
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