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Canada's Liberal Party has decisively won a general election, ending nearly a decade of Conservative rule.

The centrist Liberals, led by Justin Trudeau, started the campaign in third place but in a stunning turnaround now command a majority.

Pakistan's Sharif sends mixed message to US, Latest world News, latest political news, latest news today, latest political news updates.

2013-05-14T11:28:59+05:30

Pakistan's Sharif sends mixed message to US, Latest world News, latest political news, latest news today, latest political news updates.

RAIWIND, Pakistan

Pakistan's presumptive prime minister said Monday that he wants good relations with the United States but criticized American drone strikes on militants as a violation of the country's sovereignty — perhaps hinting the government's grudging compliance may change.

A devout Muslim and a populist, Nawaz Sharif is expected to supplant President Asif Ali Zardari as the international face of Pakistan following his party's resounding victory in Saturday's election.

He is set to rule over a nuclear power whose increasing instability and Islamic militant havens are a global concern, especially at a time when the West is looking to end the war in neighboring Afghanistan.

The 63-year-old Sharif often hit out at the U.S. in statements while lobbying for votes, and he accused the outgoing government ruled by the Pakistan People's Party of selling out the country's sovereignty in exchange for U.S. aid.

However, analysts have cautioned that while such rhetoric sells on the campaign trail in a country where anti-American sentiment is high, Sharif is likely to take a more nuanced approach to U.S. relations once in office.

Sharif reinforced that sense Monday with his first comments since the vote about how he viewed the relationship with the U.S. — a key issue since Washington relies on Islamabad for help in fighting Islamic militants and negotiating an end to the Afghan war.

"I think we have good relations with the United States of America. We certainly have to listen to each other," said Sharif. "If there are any concerns on any side, I think we should address those concerns."

Pakistan and the U.S. have had an extremely fraught relationship in recent years, especially following the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden in a Pakistani army town in 2011. The U.S. didn't tell Pakistan about the operation beforehand, and the government was outraged at the breach of its sovereignty.

Even before the raid, the U.S. accused Pakistan of supporting Taliban militants who use the country's rugged northwest tribal region to launch cross-border attacks against American troops in Afghanistan — allegations denied by Islamabad.

The relationship has improved somewhat over the last year, but U.S. drone attacks targeting Taliban and al-Qaida militants in Pakistan's tribal region continue to create serious friction between the two countries.

The strikes are extremely unpopular in Pakistan, where many people believe they mostly kill innocent civilians — something Washington denies.

"Drones indeed are challenging our sovereignty," said Sharif. "I think this is a very serious issue, and our concern must be understood properly."

But Pakistan has a long history of officials condemning the strikes in public and supporting them in private, and how aggressively Sharif pushes the U.S. may depend on how much he needs it in other areas.

Pakistan relies on the U.S. for hundreds of millions of dollars in aid every year. More importantly, Pakistan would likely need U.S. support to get a bailout it desperately needs from the International Monetary Fund because of the government's shaky financial situation.

Sharif spoke with reporters at his palatial estate in the rural town of Raiwind near the eastern city of Lahore. The estate is filled with acres of plush lawns and manicured gardens, where scores of majestic peacocks roam freely. The inside of his house is opulently decorated in a style reminiscent of Louis XIV and features two stuffed lions — the symbol of Sharif's party — at the entrance to his living room.

Sharif's supporters believe his pro-business background and years of experience in government make him the right person to tackle the country's many economic woes, like growing power cuts, painful inflation and widespread unemployment.

His stance on reining in violent Islamic extremism, however, remains uncertain.

Critics have accused his Pakistan Muslim League-N party of being soft on radicals because it hasn't cracked down on militant groups in its stronghold of Punjab province.

Even if Sharif wanted to shut down the U.S. drone program, he would have to contend with the wishes of the Pakistani army, which is considered the strongest institution in the country and often plays a dominant role in national security issues.

The army is known to have supported the drone program in the past. That cooperation has decreased over time as the relationship between the two countries has deteriorated. Many analysts believe there is still grudging acceptance of the strikes — both because of U.S. aid and because of the harm it would do to the relationship if Pakistan really put its foot down.

The number of strikes targeting militants has dropped from a peak of more than 120 in 2010 to close to a dozen so far this year, but it's unclear how much this trend has been driven by U.S. decisions about targeting versus the political sensitivity of carrying out strikes.

The U.S. is reliant on Pakistan for help in neighboring Afghanistan, where it will likely play a strong role in any reconciliation deal with Taliban militants. Also, much of the American military equipment that must be shipped out of Afghanistan when the international coalition there ends its combat mission in 2014 will go through the port city of Karachi in southern Pakistan.

Sharif said that he would facilitate the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

"American troops are being withdrawn in 2014. We will extend full support to them. We will see that everything goes well and smoothly," he said.

Sharif's party, the Pakistan Muslim League-N, appeared set to get a majority of seats in the national assembly following Saturday's election. That would place Sharif in the position of becoming prime minister for a third time and give him a strong mandate to address the country's many problems.

Following a constitutional amendment passed in 2010, the post of prime minister is much stronger than that of the presidency in Pakistan.

But Sharif's party will have to run most legislation through the Senate, where the former ruling party, the Pakistan People's Party, will retain a much higher number of seats until the next election in 2015. That means he will have to find some way to cooperate with his rival.

Sharif, meanwhile, appealed to former cricket star turned politician Imran Khan to drop his claims of vote rigging in Karachi and Punjab.

"I think we should all show sportsman's spirit and accept the results of the elections," Sharif said.

Several thousand supporters of Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party protested the alleged vote rigging in Karachi and the capital, Islamabad, on Monday.

Election observers from the European Union said they saw some "serious problems" in Karachi, and Pakistan's election commission said it was investigating. The commission already has said it would re-do the vote in 40 polling stations in one constituency in Karachi.

But the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, which had observers monitoring the vote, said they did not find any evidence of systematic rigging and called on all parties to accept the vote.

The Free and Fair Election Network, a Pakistani monitoring group with thousands of observers, has described the balloting in Punjab as "relatively fair."

Sharif's victory in the election represented a remarkable comeback. He was toppled in a coup in 1999 by then-army chief Gen. Pervez Musharraf during his second stint as prime minister and sent into exile in Saudi Arabia for years. He returned in 2007 and ended up serving as the main opposition leader in the country.

Sharif's history with the military has led some observers to predict clashes with the army once he takes office, although the service has pulled back from overt interference in domestic politics in recent years.

Sharif sought to play down his perceived enmity toward the army, saying he only blamed Musharraf for the coup, not the entire service.

"I think the rest of the army resented Mr. Musharraf's decision," said Sharif. "So I don't hold the rest of the army responsible for that."

source:http://news.yahoo.com

Budget app,Government launches Budget app, Latest news today , latest political updates, latest political news,latest world political updates.

2013-05-14T11:12:45+05:30

Budget app,Government launches Budget app, Latest news today , latest political updates, latest political news,latest world political updates.

People will be able see how much tax they pay and how their tax dollars are being spent by using the latest smartphone application - the Budget app.

The Government will launch it's new app for smartphones and tablets on Thursday, featuring interactive features.

Finance Minister Bill English says as well as providing the tax information, people will be able to access the full set of Budget documents and monthly economic updates from Treasury.

The new technology means there has been a reduced print run on copies of the actual Budget.

source:http://www.farmingshow.com/

List of Prime Minister Of England,Prime Minister of the England, Council of Prime Minister of England, U K Prime minister,List Of Prime minister Of United Kingdom.Prime minister List, England Prime minister,Prime minister list Of United kingdom.

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List of Prime Minister Of England,Prime Minister of the England, Council of Prime Minister of England, U K Prime minister,List Of Prime minister Of United Kingdom.Prime minister List, England Prime minister,Prime minister list Of United kingdom.
Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom Current Prime Minister David Cameron was appointed on 11 May 2010
Prime Minister	Start date	End date	Total time
Prime Minister	of (first) term	of (final) term	in office
Robert Walpole	4 April 1721	11 February 1742	7,618 days
Spencer Compton	16 February 1742	2 July 1743[1]	501 days
Henry Pelham	27 August 1743	6 March 1754[1]	3,844 days
Thomas Pelham-Holles	16 March 1754	26 May 1762	2,765 days
William Cavendish	16 November 1756	25 June 1757	221 days
John Stuart	26 May 1762	8 April 1763	317 days
George Grenville	16 April 1763	13 July 1765	819 days
Charles Watson-Wentworth	13 July 1765	1 July 1782[1]	478 days
William Pitt the Elder	30 July 1766	14 October 1768	807 days
Augustus FitzRoy	14 October 1768	28 January 1770	471 days
Frederick North	28 January 1770	22 March 1782	4,436 days
William Petty	4 July 1782	2 April 1783	272 days
William Cavendish-Bentinck	2 April 1783	4 October 1809	1,179 days
William Pitt the Younger	19 December 1783	23 January 1806[1]	6,917 days
Henry Addington	17 March 1801	10 May 1804	1,150 days
William Grenville	11 February 1806	31 March 1807	413 days
Spencer Perceval	4 October 1809	11 May 1812[2]	950 days
Robert Jenkinson	8 June 1812	9 April 1827	5,418 days
George Canning	10 April 1827	8 August 1827[1]	120 days
Frederick Robinson	31 August 1827	21 January 1828	143 days
Arthur Wellesley	22 January 1828	10 December 1834	1,055 days
Charles Grey	22 November 1830	16 July 1834	1,332 days
William Lamb	16 July 1834	30 August 1841	2,447 days
Robert Peel	10 December 1834	29 June 1846	1,883 days
John Russell	30 June 1846	28 June 1866	2,306 days
Edward Smith-Stanley	23 February 1852	27 February 1868	1,386 days
George Hamilton-Gordon	19 December 1852	30 January 1855	772 days
Henry Temple	6 February 1855	18 October 1865[1]	3,429 days
Benjamin Disraeli	27 February 1868	21 April 1880	2,530 days
William Ewart Gladstone	3 December 1868	2 March 1894	4,508 days
Robert Cecil	23 June 1885	11 July 1902	5,000 days
Archibald Primrose	5 March 1894	22 June 1895	474 days
Arthur Balfour	11 July 1902	5 December 1905	1,243 days
Henry Campbell-Bannerman	5 December 1905	3 April 1908	850 days
Herbert Asquith	5 April 1908	5 December 1916	3,166 days
David Lloyd George	7 December 1916	22 October 1922	2,145 days
Bonar Law	23 October 1922	22 May 1923	211 days
Stanley Baldwin	23 May 1923	28 May 1937	2,633 days
Ramsay MacDonald	22 January 1924	7 June 1935	2,480 days
Neville Chamberlain	28 May 1937	10 May 1940	1,078 days
Winston Churchill	10 May 1940	7 April 1955	3,162 days
Clement Attlee	26 July 1945	26 October 1951	2,283 days
Anthony Eden	7 April 1955	10 January 1957	644 days
Harold Macmillan	10 January 1957	18 October 1963	2,472 days
Alec Douglas-Home	18 October 1963	16 October 1964	364 days
Harold Wilson	16 October 1964	5 April 1976	2,835 days
Edward Heath	19 June 1970	4 March 1974	1,354 days
James Callaghan	5 April 1976	4 May 1979	1,124 days
Margaret Thatcher	4 May 1979	28 November 1990	4,226 days
John Major	28 November 1990	2 May 1997	2,347 days
Tony Blair	2 May 1997	27 June 2007	3,708 days
Gordon Brown	27 June 2007	11 May 2010	1,049 days
David Cameron	11 May 2010	Incumbent	1,017 days

source:http://en.wikipedia.org

List of Presidents France,Presidents of the Council of Ministers of France,Presidents of the France, France Presidents,List Of President In France.President List Of France,France Presidents,President list France.

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List of Presidents France,Presidents of the Council of Ministers of France,Presidents of the France, France Presidents,List Of President In France.President List Of France,France Presidents,President list France.
Photo	NAME	Starting Year	Ending Year
	François Hollande	15-May-12	Incumbent
Served as the First Secretary of the French Socialist Party 1997–2008, as a Deputy of the National Assembly for Corrèze's 1st Constituency 1988–1993, 1997. He was the Mayor of Tulle 2001–2008, and was the President of the Corrèze General Council 2008–2012. The second left-wing President of the Fifth Republic. Elected in the 2012 election, defeating Nicolas Sarkozy.
	Nicolas Sarkozy	5/16/2007	15 May 2012
Held various ministerial posts 1993–1995 and 2002–2007. Leader of the UMP since 2004. In the 2007 election, he topped the first round poll, and was elected in the second round against Ségolène Royal. Soon after taking office, he introduced the French fiscal package of 2007 and other laws to counter illegal immigration and recidivism. President of the Council of the EU in 2008, he defended the Treaty of Lisbon and mediated in the South Ossetia War; at national level, he had to deal with the financial crisis and its consequences. Following the 2008 constitutional reform, he became the first President since Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte to address the Versailles Congress on 22 June 2009. President of the G8 and the G20 in 2011. Defeated in the 2012 election.
	Jacques Chirac	5/17/1995	5/16/2007
Prime Minister 1974–1976; on resignation, founded the RPR. Eliminated in the first round of the 1981 election, he again served as Prime Minister 1986–1988. Beaten in the 1988 election, he was elected in the 1995 election. He engaged in social reforms to counter "social fracture". In 1997, he dissolved the Assemblée nationale; a left-wing victory in the 1997 legislative elections, forced him to name Lionel Jospin Prime Minister for a five-year cohabitation. Presidential terms reduced from seven to five years. In 2002, he was re-elected against the leader of the extreme right-wing Jean-Marie Le Pen. Opposed the Iraq War. He did not run in 2007, he retired from political life and returned to the Conseil constitutionnel.
	Francois Mitterrand	5/21/1981	5/17/1995
Candidate of a united left-wing ticket in the 1965 election, he founded the Socialist Party in 1971. Having narrowly lost the 1974 election, he was finally elected in the 1981 election. He instigated several reforms (abolition of the death penalty, a fifth week of paid leave for employees). After the right-wing victory in the 1986 legislative elections, he named Jacques Chirac Prime Minister, thus beginning the first cohabitation. Re-elected in the 1988 election against Chirac, he was again forced to cohabit with Édouard Balladur following the 1993 legislative elections. He retired in 1995 after the conclusion of his second term. He was the first President elected twice by universal suffrage, he was the first left-wing President of the Fifth Republic, and his Presidential tenure was the longest of the Fifth Republic.
	Valery Giscard dEstaing	5/27/1974	5/21/1981
Founder of the FNRI and later the UDF in his efforts to unify the centre-right, he served in several Gaullist governments. Narrowly elected in the 1974 election, he instigated numerous reforms, including the lowering of the age of civil majority from 21 to 18, and the legalisation of abortion. He soon faced a global economic crisis and rising unemployment. Although the polls initially gave him a lead, he was defeated in the 1981 election by François Mitterrand, partly due to the disunion within the right wing.
	Georges Pompidou	6/20/1969	4/2/1974
Prime Minister under Charles de Gaulle 1962–1968. Elected President in the 1969 election against the centrist Alain Poher. Favoured European integration. Supported economic modernisation and industrialisation. Faced the 1973 oil crisis. †Died in office of Waldenström's macroglobulinemia, two years before the end of his mandate.
	Charles de Gaulle	1/8/1959	4/28/1969
President of the Provisional Government 1944–1946. Appointed President of the Council by René Coty in May 1958, to resolve the crisis of the Algerian War. He adopted a new Constitution, thus founding the Fifth Republic. Easily elected President in the 1958 election by electoral college, he took office the following month; he was re-elected by universal suffrage in the 1965 election. In 1966, he withdrew France from NATO integrated military command, and expelled the American bases on French soil. Having refused to step down during the crisis of May 1968, he finally resigned following the failure of the 1969 referendum on regionalisation.
	Rene Coty	1/16/1954	1/8/1959
Presidency marked by the Algerian War; appealed to Charles de Gaulle to resolve the May 1958 crisis. Following the promulgation of the Fifth Republic, he resigned after five years as President, giving way to de Gaulle.
	Vincent Auriol	1/16/1947	1/16/1954
First President of the Fourth Republic, his term was marked by the First Indochina War.
	Albert Lebrun	5/10/1932	7/11/1947
Re-elected in 1939, his second term was interrupted de facto by the rise to power of Marshal Philippe Pétain.
	Paul Doumer	6/13/1931	5/7/1932
Elected in the second round of the 1931 election, having displaced the pacifist Aristide Briand. †Assassinated (shot) by the mentally unstable Paul Gorguloff.
	Gaston Doumergue	6/13/1924	6/13/1931
The first Protestant President, he took a firm political stance against Germany and its resurgent nationalism. His seven-year term was marked by ministerial discontinuity.
	Alexandre Millerand	9/23/1920	6/11/1924
An "Independent Socialist" increasingly drawn to the right wing, he resigned after four years following the victory of the Cartel des Gauches in the 1924 legislative elections.
	Paul Deschanel	2/18/1920	9/21/1920
An intellectual elected to the Académie française, he overcame the popular Georges Clemenceau, to general surprise, in the January 1920 election. He resigned after eight months due to mental health problems.Clemenceau, to general surprise, in the January 1920 election. He resigned after eight months due to mental health problems.
	Raymond Poincare	2/18/1913	2/18/1920
President during World War I. He subsequently served as President of the Council 1922–1924 and 1926–1929.1922–1924 and 1926–1929
	Armand Fallieres	2/18/1906	2/18/1913
President during the Agadir Crisis, when French troops first occupied Morocco. He was a party to the Triple Entente, which he strengthened by diplomacy. Like his predecessor, he did not seek re-election.Clemenceau, to general surprise, in the January 1920 election. He resigned after eight months due to mental health problems.
	Emile Loubet	1899-02-18	2/18/1906
During his seven-year term, the 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State was adopted, and only four Presidents of the Council succeeded to the Hôtel Matignon. He did not seek re-election at the end of his term.1922–1924 and 1926–1929.
	Felix Faure	1895-01-17	1899-02-16
Pursued colonial expansion and ties with Russia. President during the Dreyfus Affair. †Four years into his term he died of apoplexy at the Élysée Palace, allegedly in flagrante.party to the Triple Entente, which he strengthened by diplomacy. Like his predecessor, he did not seek re-election.
	Jean Casimir Perier	1894-06-27	1895-01-16
Perier's was the shortest Presidential term: he resigned after six months and 20 days.
	Marie Francois Sadi Carnot	1887-12-03	1894-06-25
His term was marked by boulangist unrest and the Panama scandals, and by diplomacy with Russia. †Assassinated (stabbed) by Sante Geronimo Caserio a few months before the end of his mandate, he is interred at the Panthéon, Paris.
	Jules Grevy	1879-01-30	1887-12-02
The first President to complete a full term, he was easily re-elected in December 1885. He was nonetheless forced to resign, following an honours scandal in which his son-in-law was implicated.
	Patrice de Mac Mahon	1873-05-24	1879-01-30
A Marshal of France, he was the only monarchist (and only Duke) to serve as President of the Third Republic. He resigned shortly after the Republican victory in the 1877 legislative elections, following his decision to dissolve the Chamber of Deputies. During his term, the French Constitutional Laws of 1875 that served as the Constitution of the Third Republic were passed, and he therefore became the first President under the constitutional settlement that would last until 1940.
	Adolphe Thiers	1871-08-31	1873-05-24
Initially a moderate monarchist, named President following the adoption of the Rivet law. He became a Republican during his term, and resigned in the face of hostility from the Assemblée nationale, largely in favour of a return to monarchy.
	Louis Napoleon Bonaparte	1848-12-20	1871-12-02
Nephew of Napoléon I. Elected first President of the French Republic, in the 1848 election against Louis-Eugène Cavaignac. He provoked the French coup of 1851, and proclaimed himself Emperor the following year. (2 December 1852 -4 September 1870)

List of Presidents Of Germany,List of Germany presidents,Presidents of the Council of Ministers of Germany,Presidents of Germany ,Germany Presidents,List Of President In Germany,Current Germany Presidents,President list Germany.

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List of Presidents Of Germany,List of Germany presidents,Presidents of the Council of Ministers of Germany,Presidents of Germany ,Germany Presidents,List Of President In Germany,Current Germany Presidents,President list Germany.
No.	Picture	President	Start Year	End year	Party
1		Theodor Heuss	13-Sep-49	12-Sep-59	FDP
Theodor Heuss was the 1st President of Federal Republic of Germany. He was born on 31 January 1884 at Brackenheim. He served as president of Germany from 13 September 1949 to 12 September 1959. He was co founder of the Free Democratic Party of Germany Political Party. He was Protestant by religion. He died at the age of 79 on 12 December 1963 at Stuttgart.
2		Heinrich Lubke	13-Sep-59	30-Jun-69	CDU
Heinrich Lubke was the former President of Germany. He was born on 14 October 1894 at Brackenheim. He served as president of Germany from 13 September 1959 to 30 June 1969.He was from Christian Democratic Union Political Party. He was Roman Catholic by religion. He died at the age of 77 on 6 April 1972 at Bonn.
3		Gustav Heinemann	1-Jul-69	30-Jun-74	SPD
Gustav Heinemann was the former President of Germany. He was born on 23 July 1899 at Schwelm. He served as president of Germany from 1 July 1969 to 30 June 1974. He also served as Minister of the Interior and Minister of Justice of Germany. He was from Social Democratic Political Party. He was Protestant by religion. He died at the age of 76 on 7 July 1976 at Essen.
4		Walter Scheel	1-Jul-74	30-Jun-79	FDP
Walter Scheel was the former President of Germany. He was born on 8 July 1919 at Schwelm. He served as president of Germany from 1 July 1974 to 30 June 1979. He also served as Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister of Germany. He was from Free Democratic Political Party.
5		Karl Carstens	1-Jul-79	30-Jun-84	CDU
Karl Carstens was the former President of Germany. He was born on 14 December 1914 at Bremen. He served as president of Germany from 1 July 1979 to 30 June 1984. He was from Christian Democratic Union Political Party. He was Protestant by religion. He died at the age of 77 on 30 May 1992 at Meckenheimq.
6		Richard von Weizsacker	1-Jul-84	30-Jun-94	CDU
Richard von Weizsacker was the former President of Germany. He was born on 15 April 1920 at Stuttgart. He served as president of Germany from 1 July 1984 to 30 June 1994. He was from Christian Democratic Union Political Party. He was Protestant by religion.
7		Roman Herzog	1-Jul-94	30-Jun-99	CDU
Roman Herzog was the former President of Germany. He was born on 5 April 1934 at Landshut. He served as president of Germany from July 1, 1994 to June 30, 1999. He also served as President of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. He was from Christian Democratic Union Political Party. He was a lawyer as well as politician. He was Protestant by religion.
8		Johannes Rau	1-Jul-99	30-Jun-04	SPD
Johannes Rau was the former President of Germany. He was born on 16 January 1931 at Wuppertal. He served as president of Germany from 1 July 1999 to 30 June 2004. He also served as President of the German Bundesrat and Minister President of North Rhine Westphalia. He was from Social Democratic Political Party. He was a Journalist as well as politician. He died at the age of 75 on 27 January 2006 at Berlin.
9		Horst Kohler	1-Jul-04	30-Jun-10	CDU
Horst Kohler was the former President of Germany. He was born on 22 February 1943 at Heidenstein. He served as president of Germany from 1 July 2004 to 31 May 2010. He also served as Chairman and Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund and President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He was from Christian Democratic Union Political Party. He was a Economist as well as politician. He was Protestant by religion.
10		Christian Wulff	30-Jun-10	17-Feb-12	CDU
Christian Wulff is the current President of Germany. He was born on 19 June 1959 at Osnabruck. He is serving as president of Germany since 30 june 2010. He also served as Prime Minister of Lower Saxony. He was from Christian Democratic Union Political Party. He is a Lawyer as well as politician. He is Roman Catholic by religion.
11		Joachim Gauck	18-Mar-12	Incumbent	Independent
Joachim Gauck is the current President of Germany. A former Lutheran pastor, he came to prominence as an anti-communist civil rights activist in East Germany.

List of Presidents of Italy,Presidents of the Council of Ministers of the Kingdom of Italy,Presidents of the Italian Republic, Italian Presidents,List Of President In Itly.President List Of Itly,Itly Presidents.

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List of Presidents of Italy,Presidents of the Council of Ministers of the Kingdom of Italy,Presidents of the Italian Republic, Italian Presidents,List Of President In Itly.President List Of Itly,Itly Presidents.
Photo	NAME	Country	Starting Year	Ending Year
	Giorgio Napolitano	Italy	5/15/2006	Till Date
Napolitano was elected on 10 May, in the fourth round of voting — the first of those requiring only an absolute majority, unlike the first three which required two-thirds of the votes — with 543 votes (out of a possible 1009). At the age of 80, he became the first former Communist to become President of Italy, as well as the third Neapolitan after Enrico De Nicola and Giovanni Leone. In November 2011, after barely surviving a motion of no confidence in December 2010, Berlusconi resigned from his post as head of the government, having lost the trust of the Parliament following increasingly dramatic financial and economical conditions. President Napolitano then decided to appoint former EU commissioner Mario Monti as a senator for life, and then as prime minister designate. Monti was subsequently confirmed by an overwhelming majority of both houses of the Italian Parliament, in what was widely referred to as a "government of the president". Napolitano's management of the events caused unprecedented worldwide media exposure regarding his role as President of the Italian Republic (usually referred to as nothing more than a ceremonial one) and also won him the nickname "King George" from The New York Times.
	Carlo Azeglio Ciampi	Italy	5/18/1999	5/15/2006
Ciampi was elected with a broad majority, and was the second president ever to be elected at the first ballot. He usually refrained from intervening directly into the political debate while serving as President. However, he often addressed general issues, without mentioning their connection to the current political debate, in order to state his opinion without being too intrusive. His interventions have frequently stressed the need for all parties to respect the constitution and observe the proprieties of political debate. He was generally held in high regard by all political forces represented in the parliament. As President, Ciampi was not considered to be close to the positions of the Vatican and the Catholic Church, in a sort of alternance after the devout Oscar Luigi Scalfaro. He has often praised patriotism, not always a common feeling in Italy because of its abuse by the fascist regime; Ciampi, however, seems to want to stress self-confidence rather than nationalism.
	Oscar Luigi Scalfaro	Italy	5/28/1992	5/15/1999
Scalfaro was the first President of the Second Republic. He was elected on 25 May 1992, after a two week stalemate of unsuccessful attempts to reach agreement. The killing of anti-Mafia magistrate Giovanni Falcone prompted his election. His mandate ended in May 1999, and he automatically became a lifetime member of the Senate. Scalfaro was the last Christian democrat to become President of Italy.
	Francesco Cossiga	Italy	7/3/1985	4/28/1992
Following his resignation as president of the Senate in 1985, Cossiga was elected President of Italy (Head of State). This was the first time a candidate had won following the first ballot (where a majority of over two thirds is necessary). He opined that the Italian parties, especially the DC (his own party) and Italian Communist Party, had to take into account the deep changes brought about by the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War. These statements, soon dubbed "esternazioni", or "mattock blows" (picconate), were considered by many to be inappropriate for a President and, often, beyond his constitutional powers; also, his mental health was doubted and Cossiga had to declare "I am the fake madman who speaks the truth." Tension developed between Cossiga and the President of the Council of Ministers Giulio Andreotti. This tension emerged when Andreotti revealed the existence of Gladio, a stay-behind organization with the official aim of countering a possible Soviet invasion through sabotage and guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines. Cossiga announced his involvement in the establishment of the organization. On 28 April 1992 Cossiga resigned two months before the end of his term; he was the last President of the First Republic
	Alessandro Pertini	Italy	7/9/1978	6/29/1985
Pertini was the first Socialist to become President of Italy. As President he succeeded in regaining the public's trust in the State and institutions. During the Brigate Rosse terrorism period of the Anni di piombo, Pertini was a defender of the institutions he represented. His death in Rome was viewed by many as a national tragedy, and he is arguably one of modern Italy's most accomplished politicians. Pertini is considered one of the best President in the history of Italy.
	Giovanni Leone	Italy	12/29/1971	6/15/1978
After having been unofficially several times candidate to the Presidency of the Republic, he was named Life Senator in 1967. In 1968 he was again Premier for some months. In 1971 he succeeded Giuseppe Saragat as President of Italy, being elected with votes of a right-centre majority of the Parliament (518 out of 996 votes, including those of the post-fascist Italian Social Movement). He was forced to resign from his position following his involvement in the Lockheed
	Giuseppe Saragat	Italy	12/29/1964	12/29/1971
Saragat was the first Social democratic leader to become President of Italy. Its election was the result of one of the rare cases of unity of Italian left, threatened by rumors of a possible neo-fascist coup during Antonio Segni's presidency. In his precidency he tried to unit the Christian democrats with the Socialists and the Communists
	Antonio Segni	Italy	5/11/1962	12/6/1964
Segni was elected President of the Italian Republic on 6 May 1962 (854 to 443 votes). He suffered a serious cerebral hemorrhage while working at the presidential palace on 7 August 1964. At the time he was 73 years old and the first prognosis were not positive. He only partially recovered, and he retired from office on 6 December 1964. In the interim, the President of the Senate Cesare Merzagora served as acting president.Politically, Segni was a moderate conservative opposed to "opening to the centre-left" enabling coalition governments between the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) and the Christian Democrats. Segni was later accused of having tried to instigate a coup d'état (known as Piano Solo) along with General Giovanni De Lorenzo during his presidency to frustrate the opening to the left.
	Giovanni Gronchi	Italy	5/11/1955	5/11/1962
His period in office lasted until 1962. It was marked by the ambition to bring about a gradual “opening to the left”, whereby the Socialists and the (still Stalinist) Communist Party would be brought back into the national government, and Italy would abandon NATO, becoming a non-aligned country. There was however stiff parliamentary opposition to this project, particularly by the small Italian Liberal Party, which was deemed a necessary ingredient of any viable majority. In an attempt to escape the deadlock, in 1959 Gronchi appointed as Prime Minister a trusted member of his own Catholic left-wing faction, Fernando Tambroni, sending him to Parliament with a “President’s government” but no pre-arranged majority. However Tambroni found himself surviving in Parliament only thanks to neo-fascist votes. This unforeseen “opening to the right” had serious consequences. In 1960 there were bad riots in several towns of Italy, particularly at Genoa, Licata and Reggio Emilia, where the police opened fire on demonstrators, killing five people. The Tambroni government thus ended in ignominy; forced to resign, it was followed by an all-DC government, with a traditionally centrist parliamentary majority. The unhappy Tambroni experiment tarnished Gronchi’s reputation for good, and until the end of his period of office he remained a lame-duck President. In 1962 he attempted to get a second mandate, with the powerful help of Enrico Mattei, but the attempt failed and Antonio Segni was elected instead.
	Luigi Einaudi	Italy	5/12/1948	5/11/1955
On May 11, 1948 he was elected the second President of the Italian Republic. At the end of the seven year term of office in 1955 he became Life Senator. Einaudi was a member of numerous cultural, economic and university institutions. He was a supporter of the ideal of European Federalism. Einaudi personally managed the activities of his farm near Dogliani, producing Nebbiolo wine, for which he boosted to be using the most advanced agricultural developments. In 1950, monarchist satirical magazine Candido published a cartoon in which Einaudi is at the Quirinal Palace, surrounded by a presidential guard of honour (the corazzieri) of giant bottles of Nebbiolo wine, each labeled with the institutional logo. The cartoon was judged a lese-majesty by a court of the time, and Giovannino Guareschi, as the director of the magazine, was held responsible and sentenced.
	Enrico De Nicola	Italy	7/1/1946	5/12/1948
De Nicola was the first President of Italy. Once the monarchy had ended, the Constituent Assembly elected De Nicola Provisional Head of State on 28 June 1946, with 80% of the votes, at the first round of voting. On 25 June 1947, De Nicola resigned from the post, citing health reasons, but the Constituent Assembly immediately re-elected him again the following day, having recognized in his act signs of nobility and humility. After the Italian Constitution took effect, he was formally named the "President of the Italian Republic" on 1 January 1948. He finally refused to be a candidate for the first constitutional election the following May, in which Luigi Einaudi was elected to the Quirinale

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Member States of the United Nations,States Member in United Nations,List of UN Member States,UN state Member,list of united state member.
Member State Date of Admission
Afghanistan 19-11-1946	Comoros	Guinea Bissau 17-09-1974
Afghanistan 19-11-1946	12/11/1975	Guinea Bissau 17-09-1974

	Congo
Albania	20-09-1960
14-12-1955		Guyana
		20-09-1966
Algeria	Costa Rica
8/10/1962	2/11/1945	Haiti
		24-10-1945
Andorra
28-07-1993	Côte D'Ivoire
	20-09-1960	Honduras
Angola		17-12-1945
1/12/1976
	Croatia*
Antigua and Barbuda	22-05-1992	Hungary
11/11/1981		14-12-1955

Argentina	Cuba
24-10-1945	24-10-1945	Iceland
		19-11-1946
Armenia
2/3/1992	Cyprus
	20-09-1960	India
Australia		30-10-1945
1/11/1945
	Czech Republic*
Austria	19-01-1993	Indonesia*
14-12-1955		28-09-1950

Azerbaijan	Democratic People's Republic of Korea
2/3/1992	17-09-1991	Iran (Islamic Republic of)
		24-10-1945
Bahamas
18-09-1973	Democratic Republic of the Congo *
	20-09-1960	Iraq
Bahrain		21-12-1945
21-09-1971
	Denmark
Bangladesh	24-10-1945	Ireland
17-09-1974		14-12-1955

	Djibouti
Barbados	20-09-1977	Israel
9/12/1966		11/5/1949

	Dominica
Belarus*	18-12-1978	Italy
24-10-1945		14-12-1955

Belgium	Dominican Republic	Jamaica
27-12-1945	24-10-1945	18-09-1962

Belize	Ecuador
25-09-1981	21-12-1945	Japan
		18-12-1956
Benin
20-09-1960	Egypt*
	24-10-1945	Jordan
Bhutan		14-12-1955
21-09-1971
	El Salvador	Kazakhstan
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	24-10-1945	2/3/1992
14-11-1945

Bosnia and Herzegovina*	Equatorial Guinea	Kenya
22-05-1992	12/11/1968	16-12-1963

Botswana
17-10-1966	Eritrea	Kiribati
	28-05-1993	14-09-1999
Brazil
24-10-1945
	Estonia	Kuwait
Brunei Darussalam	17-09-1991	14-05-1963
21-09-1984

	Ethiopia	Kyrgyzstan
Bulgaria	13-11-1945	2/3/1992
14-12-1955
	Fiji	Lao People’s Democratic Republic
	13-10-1970	14-12-1955
Burkina Faso
20-09-1960
	Finland	Latvia
	14-12-1955	17-09-1991
Burundi
18-09-1962
	France	Lebanon
Cambodia	24-10-1945	24-10-1945
14-12-1955
	Gabon
	20-09-1960	Lesotho
Cameroon		17-10-1966
20-09-1960
	Gambia
	21-09-1965	Liberia
Canada		2/11/1945
9/11/1945
	Georgia
	31-07-1992	Libya*
Cape Verde		14-12-1955
16-09-1975
	Germany*
	18-09-1973	Liechtenstein
Central African Republic		18-09-1990
20-09-1960
	Ghana
	8/3/1957	Lithuania
Chad		17-09-1991
20-09-1960
	Greece
	25-10-1945	Luxembourg
Chile		24-10-1945
24-10-1945
	Grenada	Madagascar
	17-09-1974	20-09-1960
China
24-10-1945
	Guatemala	Malawi
	21-11-1945	1/12/1964
Colombia
5/11/1945	Guinea
Portugal	Sao Tome and Principe	Tajikistan
14-12-1955	16-09-1975	2/3/1992

Qatar
21-09-1971	Saudi Arabia	Thailand
	24-10-1945	16-12-1946
Republic of Korea
17-09-1991
	Senegal	The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia*
	28-09-1960	8/4/1993
Republic of Moldova
2/3/1992
	Serbia*	Timor-Leste
	1/11/2000	27-09-2002
Romania
14-12-1955
	Seychelles	Togo
	21-09-1976	20-09-1960
Russian Federation*
24-10-1945
	Sierra Leone	Tonga
	27-09-1961	14-09-1999
Rwanda
18-09-1962
	Singapore*	Trinidad and Tobago
	21-09-1965	18-09-1962
Saint Kitts and Nevis
23-09-1983
	Slovakia*	Tunisia
	19-01-1993	12/11/1956
Saint Lucia
18-09-1979
	Slovenia*	Turkey
	22-05-1992	24-10-1945
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
16-09-1980
	Solomon Islands	Turkmenistan
	19-09-1978	2/3/1992
Samoa
15-12-1976
	Somalia	Tuvalu
	20-09-1960	5/9/2000
San Marino
2/3/1992		Uganda
	South Africa	25-10-1962
Zambia	7/11/1945
1/12/1964
		Ukraine
	South ‎Sudan*	24-10-1945
Zimbabwe	14-07-2011
25-08-1980
		United Arab Emirates
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	Spain	9/12/1971
15-11-1945	14-12-1955

		United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Syrian Arab Republic*	Sri Lanka	24-10-1945
24-10-1945	14-12-1955

		United Republic of Tanzania*
Viet Nam	Sudan	14-12-1961
20-09-1977	12/11/1956

Yemen*		United States of America
30-09-1947	Suriname	24-10-1945
	4/12/1975

		Uruguay
Switzerland	Swaziland	18-12-1945
10/9/2002	24-09-1968

		Uzbekistan
Vanuatu	Sweden	2/3/1992
15-09-1981	19-11-1946

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About the General Assembly,General assembly Secretariat,General assembly Ministers,General Assembly Affairs Branch General assembly in UN.

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Famous Political Leaders Across the Globe, Political figures Most Popular Across World, Most Famous Politicians In the world, World Politics, Famous Leaders

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Famous Political Leaders Across the Globe, Political figures Most Popular Across World, Most Famous Politicians In the world

World Leaders & Revolutionaries

Some were strong; others were weak. Some were good; others were bad. Learn more about the men and women around the world who were leaders and revolutionaries during the 20th century.

Abraham Lincoln
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Adolf Hitler
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Albert John Luthuli
Albert John Luthuli, the president of the African National Congress, was an African politician and teacher. A noble man and an adamant leader, Luthuli fought ...

Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton was one of the important pioneers in the early formation of the American government. He participated in Washington's Revolutionary War from ...

Ariel Sharon
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Aung San Suu Kyi
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Betty Williams
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Cordell Hull
Cordell Hull was a major political leader of Tennessee, USA and 47th Secretary of States of the United States. He is credited as the longest-serving Secretary ...

F D Roosevelt
Born in 1882 and famous all over the world with the three letters, 'FDR' Franklin D. Roosevelt was the 32nd President of the U.S. and is the only U.S. ...

Fidel Castro
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Gamal Abdel Nasser
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George Washington
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Henri La Fontaine
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Henry Kissinger
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Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi Minh was a communist, revolutionist of Vietnam who played a symbolic role as head of state of Vietnam and as a mediator of Party disputes and became the ...

Indira Gandhi
Indira Gandhi was the first woman Prime Minister of India. Political thinkers, even today consider Gandhi as the most controversial Premier of the nation. She ...

Jacques Chirac
Jacques Chirac is one of the most influential politicians in France. Getting inspiration from Charles DeGaulle, Chirac entered French national politics in ...

Jawaharlal Nehru
Born in an aristocratic family of Motilal Nehru, Jawaharlal Nehru emerged as one of the greatest political leaders of the world, ever. Jawaharlal Nehru was an ...

John F Kennedy
John F. Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States and first American President to be born in the twentieth century. The former president has many ...

Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin was one of the greatest leaders of the former Soviet Union and General Secretary of the Communist party of the Soviet Union serving from 1922 ...

Kim Dae Jung
Kim Dae Jung, the fifteenth President of Korea is mainly known for his opposition to and lifelong struggle against the authoritarian rule in Korea. He was most ...

Kofi Annan
Kofi Annan is a former diplomat of Ghana and was the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations serving from 1997 to 2006. As Secretary-General Kofi Annan ...

Lech Walesa
Lech Walesa is a former president of Poland and a Nobel Peace Prize Winner. He is also a humanitarian and a co founder of ‘Solidarity’, the Soviet’s bloc’s ...

Lord Mountbatten
Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, commonly known as Lord Mountbatten, was a British admiral, statesman and the 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma. ...

Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi was a major political and spiritual leader of India who led the country in the non-cooperation ...

Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong was the leader of the Communist Party of China who showed it the way to victory against the 'Kuomintang' in the Civil war of China. Appointed as the ...

Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher is the first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and was the first woman to lead a major political party in the country. She acted ...

Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev is a former President of the erstwhile USSR who served as the last general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1986 to ...

Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela was the most significant black leader who stood against racism and apartheid in South Africa, while many in the world were silent. He dreamt of ...

Oscar Arias Sanchez
Oscar Arias Sanchez is the present “Head of the State” and president of Costa Rica. Known for his excellent ruling and a popular organizer, Arias was elected ...

Patrick Henry
Patrick Henry was one of the leading figures of American Revolution and a prominent political founder who saw the formation of initial Independent United ...

Ralph Bunche
Ralph Bunche was an American political scientist and diplomat and an active leader who contributed heavily in the Civil Rights Movements in the United ...

Raul Castro
Raul Castro is the current President of Cuba and brother of the Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro. Most of his life was spent under the shadow of his ...

Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon was a leader of the Republican Party and became the thirty-seventh President of the United States in 1968 and was subsequently reelected for his ...

Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan was the fortieth President of the United States and thirty-third governor of California. A short time film actor and director, Reagan was ...

Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein was the 5th President of Iraq and a member of the Revolutionary Ba’ath Party, which held a long term power in the country. As President of Iraq, ...

Sun Yat Sen
Sun Yat-Sen was a major politician and a Chinese revolutionary who co founded the Kuomintang and served as its first leader. Known as the Father of Modern ...

Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was a major political leader and the third president of the United States serving from 1801 to 1809. He was also a co-founder and leader of ...

Tony Blair
Tony Blair is British politician and the leader of the Labor Party who went on to become the Prime Minister of the country in 1997 and served it until 2007. ...

Tunku Abdul Rahman
Sir Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Sultan Abdul Hamid Halim Shah was the Chief Minister of the Federation of Malaya from 1955 and became the ...

Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin was a Russian revolutionary and communist who led the famous October Revolution in Russia. Lenin was a driving force in overthrowing the Czarist ...

Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was one of the greatest politicians of the United Kingdom who went on to become the Prime Minister of the country in ...

Yasser Arafat
Yasser Arafat was a leader of the state of Palestine and 1st President of the Palestinian National Authority. The leader is also known as the Chairman of the ...

Yitzhak Rabin
Yitzhak Rabin was the 5th Prime Minister of Israel and served the country from 1974–1977 and from 1992 until his assassination in 1995. While in office, ...

Yoshiro Mori
Yoshiro Mori is a Japanese politician and former Prime Minister of Japan who served the country from the year 2000 to 2001 as its 85th and 86th Prime Minister. ...

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Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor served as the 12th president of the United States from the period 1849 to 1850. He was a successful military leader and his contribution as a ...