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"for the time being". In

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, a similar role is carried by the Provisional President of the Argentine Senate in the absence of the Vice President of Argentina. By the 1994 amendment to the 1853 Constitution, the Vice President is designated as the

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* President pro tempore of the Union of South American Nations *

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* Speaker pro tempore of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico

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