0 a condition that exists when someone has lost control of something and no one has replaced them: --
I fear that there is a dangerous power vacuum in that area.
I hope that this is a power vacuum which will not arise in our lifetime, although it might.
I do not believe that we should be forgiven if we abandoned the area to terror and chaos by irresponsibly creating a power vacuum.
At the same time we appreciate that it is impossible to contemplate leaving a power vacuum.
I personally think that the power vacuum has been filled with a vengeance.
The appearance of a power vacuum in such a sensitive area is highly dangerous.
The attempt to do so risks crisis and chaos and the creation of a power vacuum which is promptly filled by a dictatorship.
He says we are creating a power vacuum.
