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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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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This clamour is simultaneously a bit odd, and revealing about the hurdles that face David Cameron's “big society”, the prime minister's push to place power in the hands of local communities.

这些喧闹有点故怪地同时出现。这也显示了大卫·卡梅伦的“大社会”所遭遇到的障碍，首相在推动把权力交到当地社区的手中。

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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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It's a fragile peace because the underlying issue that sparked weeks of violence has not been settled - a Shiite power struggle between Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

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