In theory, the president can call one only if three would-be prime ministers in a row fail to get parliament to back a new government.
The media mogul repeatedly said he hadn't asked prime ministers and would-be prime ministers for favors and that his commercial interests didn't influence where his newspapers stood on issues or political parties.
Under, what appears to be, the Schroeder plan - no there wouldn't because the second chamber of the European parliament would actually be the prime ministers of all the member nations of the European Union.
Mr Kiriyenko has reportedly said there would be no further deputy prime ministers appointed.
Yet when the country is distracted by the soccer World Cup this summer, a switch of prime ministers cannot be ruled out.
Although officially Mr Daim has resigned to take a well-earned rest, Dr Mahathir's three previous deputy prime ministers could be forgiven for detecting a pattern.
And of course, I'll be consulting with previous ministers and prime ministers, as you should do in the normal way.
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As wags have said, Mr Mori may be one of the worst Japanese prime ministers in living memory, but his job is nevertheless one of the safest in the country.
David Solomon and Katie Jack from the protocol office in Washington will not reveal what Mrs Clinton is taking with her for the presidents and prime ministers she will be meeting.
Apart from the prime minister, there will be 21 ministers, making it the smallest government in decades, Israeli media report.
The press is full of stories that Mr Putin is about to be sacked, like the four other prime ministers who have been raised up and then thumped down in the past year-and-a-half.
It is still left with a formidable leader who deserves to be remembered as one of the four greatest Prime Ministers in British history.
Mr Cameron said it was inevitable there would be criticism when ministers were or were not referred, and it was right that the prime minister should be accountable to Parliament in such cases.
For the moment, Japan, which has had five revolving-door prime ministers in five years, will be spared another government crisis.
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Of course, both prime ministers recognise that there has to be a compromise and that wholesale decommissioning will not be on offer in the short run.
India has had a few of these in the 1990s, and some say that prime ministers who know their tenures will be short try to get more done than the timorous and long-serving.
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She is officially the head of state of 16 countries that used to be part of the British Empire, has met presidents and prime ministers, and has seen the world change beyond recognition during her reign.
In the past year the crisis has brought down the prime ministers of Ireland and Portugal after they needed to be bailed out.
In other respects, governing as a large minority party might not be much trickier than governing with a small majority, which leaves prime ministers perpetually vulnerable to backbench rebellions.
Others have noted that, while future prime ministers would wield enhanced powers over the lower house, they would be almost powerless to impose their will on a recalcitrant upper house.
Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan ordered his ministers to step up information-gathering and be prepared for emergencies.
Coordinating such efforts will need to be supported at the highest level in government by science and technology advisors to presidents and prime ministers at par with economic advisors.
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That would be a disaster, even by the sorry standards of recent Japanese politics, in which four prime ministers have come and gone in the past four years.
But one of the things that the President has said is that this new era of engagement can't just be between governments -- you know, it's not just about the presidents and prime ministers getting along.
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The prime minister demanded the full restitution of the three ministers, though he had seemed to be softening towards an offer of power-sharing from Mrs Kumaratunga.
When prime ministers gather in Brussels next week to try to sort it all out, David Cameron will be by no means the only one under pressure at home not to give an inch.
By acting so closely together Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern, the British and Irish prime ministers, have finally made credible the oft-repeated claim that there are no political gains to be obtained from further violence.
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