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Vice President of Mali

deputy head of state of Mali

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ104858893 ↗
Source-derived summary

The vice president of Mali (French: Vice-président du Mali) was an ad hoc governmental position in Mali. There is no provision for a vice president in the Constitution of Mali and the position has only existed under military regimes. Normally, the constitution instead designates the Prime Minister and the President of the National Assembly step in as interim presidents during temporary and absolute absences, respectively.

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“Vice President of Mali” enters the record as deputy head of state of Mali. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Vice, President and Mali can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Vice President of Mali” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.