Nino Burjanadze is speaker of parliament and the country's acting president during the election.
Putin became acting president of Russia, the world has barely begun getting to know him.
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Mr Maduro had been serving as acting president since Mr Chavez died of cancer on 5 March.
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Due to his illness, Fidel Castro appointed his brother, Raul Castro acting president of Cuba in July, 2006.
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Opinion polls say the government's candidate - acting President Nicolas Maduro - has a strong lead over his rival.
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On the eve of the election, acting President Nicolas Maduro appeared on TV visiting the tomb of Hugo Chavez.
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Earlier, the acting president said an alleged plot to murder the opposition presidential candidate, Henrique Capriles, had been discovered.
And I got a letter from the Acting President of Kyrgyzstan, Roza Otunbayeva.
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Opinion polls say acting President Maduro has a strong lead over his rival.
David Bronner, acting president of the company, is the grandson of Emil Bronner.
As acting president, Mr Maduro is expected to call elections within 30 days.
And, as prime minister since the autumn and then as acting president, his policy towards Chechnya has been brutal.
Zhang Jilong, acting president of the Asian Football Confederation, had asked the International Football Association Board to review the ban.
Monday saw Mr Maduro, who is now acting president, officially register his candidature for the presidential elections on 14 April.
He has already put Dragan Tomic, a loyal apparatchik, back as speaker of Serbia's parliament, which makes him acting president.
Named acting president in 1998 and given the formal title in April this year, Liu is credited with turning the airline around.
Mr Maduro had been serving as acting president since Mr Chavez died.
In 1970, Vice-President Anwar Sadat was sworn in as acting president of Egypt after the death of Gamal Abdel Nasser the previous day.
The other is Bronislaw Komorowski, the speaker of the lower house of the Polish parliament, who has been acting president since the crash.
By giving Boris the boot, the presidential election can be moved up three months, thereby handing a huge advantage to Acting President Vladimir Putin.
Senior leaders immediately went into a huddle and appointed Sitaram Kesri, 77, a Rao loyalist and the party's treasurer for 17 years, as acting president.
The acting president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro has said it is highly unlikely that the body of the former president Hugo Chavez will be embalmed.
Mr Zhang became acting president of the AFC after his predecessor, Mohammed Bin Hamman, was given a lifetime ban by Fifa for corruption and bribery.
Opposition critics say Maduro's swearing-in Friday as acting president was unconstitutional.
After Mr Chavez's death, Mr Capriles accused the late leader's chosen successor, Nicolas Maduro, of abuse of power in taking on the post of acting president.
They swiftly detained the front-runner in the first round of presidential elections on March 29th, Carlos Gomes Junior, as well as the acting president, Raimundo Pereira.
But in playing Parker, who was acting president of Facebook before being asked to leave for cocaine possession, he also came to feel defensive about his character.
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If he decides to run, he would face an uphill battle against acting President Nicolas Maduro, who was sworn in last week and was Chavez's hand-picked successor.
In Moscow, Russian Defence Minister Igor Sergeyev said Acting President Vladimir Putin had approved new methods to press on with the three-and-a-half-month campaign, although he gave no details.
The foreign secretary has held meetings with the country's acting president Dioncounda Traore, its prime minister and foreign minister in the capital Bamako to discuss security and political developments.
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