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In his place, Yeltsin sent the new acting prime minister, Vladimir Putin, whose behavior confirmed the wisdom of the observation that you can take the man out of the KGB, but you can’t take the KGB out of the man.
Electors chose only a representative for the House of Commons, and the majority party then appointed the prime minister.
In Australia, with its robust work-life debate, women point to the success of Julia Gillard, the first woman prime minister, but note that she has no children (nor does German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the first woman to lead her country).
I sent a clear message to this effect, through an emissary of the Soviet Politburo, two days after I was nominated as prime minister, and I amplified it later, during my first visit to Moscow.
Indeed, in extraordinary times like those, symbols matter, and many of my early actions as prime minister were wholly or in part symbolic.
He arrived with Anatoli's Chubais' team from St. Petersburg in November that year, first becoming deputy minister of finance and soon deputy chairman of the CBR.
As a Chilean government minister late last decade, I remember the frustration of attending Mercosur gatherings (Chile is an associate member).
Political complications linked to a possible meeting with the Venezuelan opposition, which Bachelet had chosen not to attend (preferring to send her foreign minister), likely also played a part.
Israel’s former prime minister, Ariel Sharon, used to caution his colleagues against “rushing to the head of the line” on Iran.
Israel’s current prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has been less worried than Sharon was about Israel’s perceived role.
Together with his defense minister, Ehud Barak, Netanyahu succeeded in persuading Obama and the rest of the world that Israel was preparing a military attack as a last resort, should the US and its allies fail to stop the Iranian program in time.
As Greece’s finance minister, I proposed a rate reduction for sales tax, income tax, and corporation tax, in order to broaden the tax base, increase revenues, and give Greece’s broken economy a boost.
It is possible that HDZ can win should it nominate Mate Granic, the Western-backed foreign minister.
Mir-Hossein Mousavi, chosen by the late Ayatollah Khomeini to be prime minister in 1981, was such a figure.
Moreover, in proportional voting systems like Italy’s, where no single political party normally wins a majority of seats in parliament, the president often plays a key role in appointing the prime minister.
Rumors abound that the family of Prime Minister Chernomyrdin, its former chairman, has a large stake, a claim the prime minister vigorously denies.)
Japan’s new prime minister, Shinzo Abe, reportedly said that he is considering renouncing the Kono Statement of 1993, which acknowledged that the Japanese military had raped and enslaved Asian and European women during World War II.
But the EU can make a much more positive and important contribution to the Arab awakening by launching an economic strategy along the lines laid out by Italy’s foreign minister, Franco Frattini, and Britain’s deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg.
A possible key to mutual confidence would be for the Democrats to hold the crucial finance ministry, while M5S appoints the prime minister.
Then the Hungarian prime minister resigned.
Qatar’s foreign minister, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, has denied that his country funds the group, but also publicly called on its leaders to distance themselves from al-Qaeda, reinforcing the view that Qatar retains influence over the group.
Down by Law in PakistanISLAMABAD – On June 19, in what it called a “short order,” Pakistan’s Supreme Court removed Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani as the country’s prime minister, a post that he had held for more than four years – longer than any of his 16 predecessors.
Membership in the national assembly is required in order to serve as prime minister.
They were obliged to act as required by the constitution to remove the prime minister.
The president, the prime minister, and the speaker of the national assembly chose to ignore the court’s order, limiting themselves to responding to a petition moved in the court by the main opposition party.
Under the constitution’s 18th amendment, signed into law by Zardari in the fall of 2010, the president was required to give up almost all executive authority to the prime minister who, along with his cabinet, is accountable to the parliament.
While some Gilani loyalists continue to defend him, Zardari has already moved to name an old PPP stalwart, Makhdoom Shahabuddin, as the new prime minister.
Had the Supreme Court not removed Gilani, he would have been the first prime minister to complete his full term.
That did not happen, but this time the prime minister was removed not by military action or presidential diktat, but by the order of an independent judiciary.
We ourselves won’t make a move,” Moshe Dayan, Israel’s defense minister, said.
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