If the left secures a majority of seats in parliament, Socialist leader Lionel Jospin would likely become prime minister in a power-sharing arrangement with President Chirac.

如果左翼在议会中获得多数席位，社会党领袖莱昂内尔·若斯潘可能会成为总理，与总统希拉克分享权力。

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Brown spent the best part of a decade harassing Blair, demanding that the prime minister resign and hand over power to his jealous chancellor of the Exchequer.

布朗花费了十年中大部分的时间去阻挠布莱尔，要求首相辞职并移交权力给他猜疑的财政大臣。

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Yet such matters are not susceptible to a quick fix, and as prime minister he will have little more power in these areas, except perhaps in education, than he has had for a decade as chancellor.

而这些事情都不可能迅速解决。在这些领域，相比其担任十几年的财政大臣来讲，当首相，几乎没有更多的权力，或许教育领域除外。

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Outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is anxious to close a deal before a new Israeli government takes power in the next few weeks.

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Nepal's former Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal resigned last month after Maoists led massive protests demanding that he make way for a power sharing government.

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The demonstrators, known as the "red shirts", are supported by exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted from power in a 2006 military coup.

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The Congolese government, which is holding talks with rebel leaders at Sun City, a South African resort, proposed that President Joseph Kabila should share power with a prime minister chosen from the rebel groups.

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They are calling for an immediate moratorium on new appointments, a new cap so that the Lords never has more than 750 members, a new mechanism that would allow peers to retire, and fresh curbs on the power of a prime minister to appoint so many peers in the first place.

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Japan must implement a new system in which the Japanese people directly elect their prime minister, who has a power of veto over proposed legislation.

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