In December 1989, Singh was elected Prime Minister and completed the pullout.

On 22 June the new parliament elected Jyrki Katainen as prime minister.

The Presidency Council has now been elected and the Prime Minister named.

Thaksin s days appear numbered, for Thailand seems poised to eject a popularly elected prime minister.

Paul Raymond Bérenger, Prime Minister of Mauritius, was elected President of the International Meeting by acclamation.

The Council of Ministers is made up of the Chief Minister, members of the House of Assembly designated by the Chief Minister and some elected members.

Pravin Kumar Jugnauth, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and Economic Development of Mauritius, was elected Vice President ex officio of the International Meeting by acclamation.

He was re elected in 1988, and again in 1992, after which he was appointed Minister of Transportation by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, a position he held until 1996.

Angela Merkel was recently reelected for a third term as German Chancellor Britain s voters elected Margaret Thatcher three times as Prime Minister and France has had a female prime minister.

In September 2004 the Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs together with the Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs was elected the head of an informal group of female ministers of foreign affairs.

Noting that the Chief Minister was elected as the chairman of the newly established Overseas Countries and Territories Association of Europe,

Nepal s Parliament has elected Mr. Sushil Koirala (75), the president of the party Nepali Congress, as the new Nepali Prime Minister.

In deep financial crisis, traditionally social democratic Denmark elected a conservative prime minister, Poul Schlüter, a jovial man with a bow tie.

Three or four Ministers would then be chosen by the Chief Minister from among the elected members and would be designated portfolios.

Then one of them, Menachem Begin, was elected Prime Minister of Israel and became a partner in peace with Egypt s President Anwar Sadat.

After the AKP was elected in 2003, the Supreme Court dissolved it in order to prevent Recep Tayyip Erdogan from becoming Prime Minister.

In 2008, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, of the re elected minority government of Canada, requested that Governor General Michaëlle Jean prorogue Parliament.

Also, the prime minister and his deputies (in the Federation), and vice prime ministers (in Republika Srpska), cannot be elected from the same constitutive people.

On April 27, 2007, the Turkish Armed Forces issued a statement opposing the presidential candidacy of Abdullah Gul, Turkey s deputy prime minister and foreign minister at the time, warning that if Gul was elected, Turkey would descend into chaos.

From this perspective, the Commission presages a future European democratic government, as German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble, who has proposed instituting an elected president, has suggested.

The Chief Minister (the Head of Government) would be elected by the Legislative Assembly by secret ballot and receive at least 7 of the 12 votes.

The President, Prime Minister and Ministers of the region are elected by simple majority, in contrast to the Iraqi Council of Representatives which requires two thirds support.

Indeed, Yomiuri s report may well have helped convince Japan s new prime minister, Shinzo Abe, to go to China immediately after being elected in to seek better bilateral relations.

One year after he was re elected in a landslide, Thailand s Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been forced to dissolve the National Assembly and call a snap election.

From Algeria, Nouri the Moor objects to an LA Times article which describes slain former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto as the first elected leader of a Muslim state.

The prime minister has refused to acknowledge the calls by the opposition to resign and has declared that he will do so only when a new president is elected.

At its 1st plenary meeting, on 21 September 2005, the Conference elected, by acclamation, as President of the Conference, His Excellency Alexander Downer, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Australia.

In June, when Sharif became the first prime minister in Pakistan s checkered political history to succeed a democratically elected prime minister through another democratic election, there was hope in India that the balance of power might shift from the military to the civilian government.

The Executive Council consists of the Chief Minister (appointed by the Governor from among the elected members of the Legislative Council) who has responsibility for finance, three ministers (appointed by the Governor on the advice of the Chief Minister) and one ex officio member (the Attorney General).

Moussavi, Iran s prime minister between 1981 and 1989, is barely known to young voters. However, his campaign has been hinting that, if elected, Moussavi will loosen some social and cultural restrictions.

Ehud Olmert, the party s leader and now elected prime minister, has been a maverick of the center since his student days a fitting symbol for the rapprochement of left and right.

Prime Minister Naoto Kan has been elected President of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), surviving a challenge from Ichiro Ozawa, the DPJ s most potent behind the scenes power broker.

At its 1st meeting, on 28 November, on the proposal of the outgoing President, the COP elected by acclamation Mr. Stéphane Dion, Minister of the Environment of Canada, as its President.

Regardless of which of the remaining candidates will be elected in the upcoming runoff the incumbent Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko or Viktor Yanukovich the Orange Revolution will have come to an end.

He visited it again last October, after being elected LDP leader, and expressed bitter grief during the election campaign that he had not done so during his previous term as Prime Minister.

Bilateral tensions flared when Thai politics heated up after the September 2006 military coup that overthrew the democratically elected prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, on charges of corruption and disloyalty to the monarchy.

Elected Position

Last year, the US suggested quadrilateral defense exercises including US, Japanese, Indian, and Australian naval units, but the newly elected Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has pulled his country out of such arrangements.

A lawyer by profession, Rajapaksa was first elected to the Parliament of Sri Lanka in 1970, and served as Prime Minister from 6 April 2004 until his victory in the 2005 Presidential election.

None of the women was elected to be member of the Presidency BiH at the post war elections (1996 2000), neither for the president co president of FBiH, nor for entity Prime Minister.

The British Prime Minister had admitted publicly that his Government had been working illegally with the opposition and civil society organizations in Zimbabwe to overthrow of the legitimately elected Government of that country.

On 28 June, Nabih Berri was re elected as the Speaker of the National Assembly and Fuad Siniora, former Minister of Finance, was designated Prime Minister. Two days ago, Mr. Siniora announced agreement on the membership of the Cabinet, which will be subject to a vote of confidence in parliament early next week.

In addition to 17 women elected on reserved seats, 1 was elected as a technocrat.

Generals now hold the positions of Vice President, Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defense, and Minister of the Interior.

We elected him chairman.