But Minister for the Presidency Frank Tumwebaze defended the donation.
The government is also attempting to settle scores with Yulia Tymoshenko, the former prime minister and Mr Yanukovich's challenger for the presidency.
She backed the appointment of relative lightweights for both the EU presidency and the foreign minister's job created by the Lisbon treaty.
LDP, the amiable Mr Obuchi is widely seen as a useful compromise candidate for the party presidency which carries with it the job of prime minister.
He is a frontrunner for the presidency, along with Prime Minister Raila Odinga, in next week's election.
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He served two terms as president before becoming prime minister for a four-year spell and subsequently resuming the presidency in May 2012.
The names most often mentioned as possible contenders for the deputy presidency are Najib and former finance minister Tengku Razaleigh Ham-zah.
Other candidates for the presidency come and go: Luxembourg's prime minister, Jean-Claude Juncker, is a popular one but continues to refuse the job.
The obvious answer is that two years from now, when Mr Jospin, determined to deny the conservative Jacques Chirac a second term, runs for the presidency, Mr Fabius will once again become prime minister.
Mr Nano's plan to build respect for state institutions includes reforming the constitution to strengthen the prime minister and weaken the presidency.
Khamenei stepped in to call it off, but warned that Iran could one day eliminate the presidency for a system where the parliament picks a prime minister instead.
In South Africa, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela , former minister and former wife of Nelson Mandela, was nominated as a candidate for the deputy presidency of the African National Congress.
In terms of experience, there could surely be no better candidate than Edouard Balladur, prime minister from 1993 to 1995 and a past rival of Mr Chirac's for the presidency.
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Perhaps most important to his credentials for the presidency was his promotion to the post of first deputy prime minister in charge of national projects.
Colombia's current finance minister, Juan Carlos Echeverry, said on Thursday that the country was focusing on a bid for the presidency of the International Labour Organization rather the World Bank.
Bertie Ahern, the Irish prime minister who chaired the summit, has received praise for his work during Ireland's six-month EU presidency, but speaks no French and has said he doesn't want the job either.
Very good indeed for a prime minister wanting to appeal to the centre ground and who won't meet any of the Republican contenders for the Presidency.
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Meanwhile, Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Pique, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency, has postponed a planned trip to Rome for a week, at Mr Berlusconi's request, diplomatic sources said.
Mr. Erdogan brooks little dissent and has made no secret of his ambition to run for Turkey's presidency in elections next year, when his term as prime minister ends, to the dismay of the political opposition.
Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency, also urged European leaders to find some ground for unity.
But the first and perhaps the biggest test for Finland's next prime minister, whoever he is, will come when the country embarks on its first presidency of the European Union in the second half of this year.
So now two years into his presidency and nearly a year Fatah was badly beaten at the polls, for a British prime minister to say now is really the time to get behind Abbas, some think it may be too late.
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