Word: ministership
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...office. Second, he's restored the preeminent role of Cabinet, which has collectively taken all the major decisions. "Obviously I have views, and I'm not suggesting for a moment that those views aren't listened to," he says. "But I've tried not to build a presidential prime ministership." Conservative politicians marvel at his genius; high-profile figures across the Tasman, in the South Pacific and in Asia speak about Howard's political prowess in the awed tones cricketers might use to describe Steve Waugh...
...internal party investigation found that he bought votes during UMNO elections last year. The most senior casualty so far in Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's anti-corruption campaign, Isa has 14 days to appeal the suspension. If it is upheld, he will be forced to resign from his ministership...
...Peres chose last week to square off against Sharon remains a matter of speculation. Strident attacks by Sharon against Peres' peace initiatives are nothing new. Moreover, Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, the Likud leader who is scheduled to take over the prime ministership in October 1986, had warned that Sharon's dismissal would ensure the collapse of the government. Peres' actions led many to conclude that a government split-up was precisely what he had in mind. With his popularity rating running at a record 67.2%, Peres perhaps hoped to form a narrow-based government without Likud. But the small religious...
...early exit of U.S. troops. "Even if it has the same faces, the next government will be very different from the interim administration," says al-Mahdi, who is the Finance Minister in Allawi's interim government. "The most powerful body will not be the presidency or the prime ministership or the Cabinet. It will be the Assembly." The first task of the 275-member legislature will be to select a President and two Vice Presidents, who in turn will name a Prime Minister. Although the Prime Minister is to wield a great deal of executive power, all major decisions will...
...spiritual conscience, Mahatma Gandhi. Indira, known to many in the nation as Amma (mother), begat Rajiv and then Sanjay. When the prodigal younger son and heir apparent died in a plane crash in 1980, his brother Rajiv, almost inevitably, took his place [as next in line for the prime ministership]. 'Indira believed that the House of Nehru was what India needed,' said a Western diplomat...