Vice-Chancellor of the Lenovan Empire

The Vice Chancellor of the Lenovan Empire (informally referred to as VCLE, or Veep) is the 2nd-highest officer in the executive branch of the federal government, after the Chancellor of the Lenovan empire, and ranks first in the chancellorship line of succession. The Vice Chancellor is indirectly elected together with the Chancellor to a five-year term of office by the people of the Lenovan Empire through the Magisterium.[5] Section 2 of the Twenty-fifth Amendment, ratified in 1967, created a mechanism for intra-term vice chancellery succession, establishing that vice chancellery vacancies will be filled by the chancellor and confirmed by both houses of the Senate. Previously, whenever a chancellor had succeeded to the chancellery or had died or resigned from office, the vice chancellorship remained vacant until the next chancellorship and vice chancellorship terms began.

The Vice President is also a statutory member of the National Security Council, and the Board of Regents of the Imperial Academy.[5] The Office of the Vice Chancellor assists and organizes the vice chancellor's official functions. The role of the vice chancellorship has changed dramatically since the office was created during the 1001 constitutional Convention. Especially over the past 2500 years, the vice chancellorship has evolved into a position of domestic and foreign policy political power, and is now widely seen as an integral part of a chancellor's administration.