As premier of Vichy France (1942-1944), he pursued a policy of collaboration with Nazi Germany.
The billionaire businessman fell short in a comeback attempt in February elections for a fourth term as premier.
As premier, Berlusconi himself has enacted legislation that is widely seen as tailor-made to shield him from legal difficulties.
Moreover, Mr Clement, who took over as premier two years ago, is increasingly irritated by his obstreperous Green partners.
Takeshita's predecessor as a shadow shogun, Tanaka Kakuei, also had a short tenure as premier and resigned because of various scandals.
After stepping down as premier for the last time in 1992, he was appointed to Italy's upper house of parliament for life.
Diebold (nyse: DBD - news - people ) voting machines, which have since been rebranded as Premier Election Solutions.
It was widely assumed that at the next election he would be replaced as premier by the province's Liberal leader, Jean Charest.
The latest casualty is Tokyo Sexwale, who recently announced that he is to resign as premier of Gauteng, the province centred on Johannesburg.
Whatever the election result, he says, he will not give up his job as premier of the deep-south state of Carinthia for one in Vienna.
All the more so since Mr Strauss's first successor as premier in Munich, Max Streibl, proved too puny to fill the old man's giant shoes.
And in the province of New Brunswick, never known as a hotbed of conservatism, voters overwhelmingly elected as premier a political novice who also promised tax cuts.
As well as Capello, Tottenham defender Michael Dawson and Manchester City winger Adam Johnson were also in attendance, as well as Premier League chief executive Peter Scudamore.
And Wolfgang Clement, Mr Rau's successor as premier of North Rhine-Westphalia, where an election will be held in May, has been accused of taking some free flights too.
That has allowed Mr Landry, who was finance minister from 1996 until he took over as premier in 2001, to present himself as a cautious and competent administrator.
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But what the AIPAC scandal shows is that it may be advantageous that Netanyahu's first visit to Washington as premier not be conducted as part of the AIPAC conference.
Monti, whose own election bid to stay on as premier was soundly rejected by angry voters, telephoned Napolitano to thank him for having agreed "with great spirit of sacrifice" to continue.
As early as 2002, researchers at Johns Hopkins and Rice University analyzed the source code of the widely used Diebold voting machines, which have since been rebranded as Premier Election Solutions.
He is not a natural ally of Mr Mbeki, having been ousted from his job as premier of the Free State last year: he had been trying to root out corruption.
Ancelotti's team ended the last campaign as Premier League and FA Cup champions - inflicting home and away league defeats on United in the process, as well as winning the Community Shield.
Another Calgarian, Ralph Klein, though a Conservative, as premier of Alberta since 1993 was the first to put Reform's ideas into practice, slashing spending on health and education and privatising many government services.
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Still, Monti's decision to stand down as premier once parliament approves the 2013 budget provides the first big test for Italy's bond market since the ECB-driven rally in Italian debt began in late July.
Nor can he prove his mettle as the opposition's best hope until early next year, in Lower Saxony's next state elections, when anything less than holding his own as premier would sink him nationally.
How did Anwar seemingly outmaneuver the man who has dominated Malaysian politics and national life as premier for 14 years, and who led his National Front government to a stunning general election victory just six months ago?
The sin of which he stands accused is that, as premier for 20 years of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's most populous state, he improperly used a private jet chartered by the Westdeutsche Landesbank, of which the state owns nearly half.
Nine months after an election in Hesse had produced a tie between the two main parties, the state legislature was due to replace Roland Koch, boss of the local Christian Democratic Union (CDU), as premier and to install Andrea Ypsilanti, leader of the state's Social Democrats (SPD), in his place.
Meanwhile, Drogba will be hoping to go to the tournament as a Premier League winner again as Chelsea lead the standings by five points.
Ed Foster consolidated his position as the Premier Division's top run scorer as fourth-placed Shrewsbury had the better of a winning draw against third-placed Kenilworth Wardens.
The success of management resulted in America emerging as the premier industrial power, not principally because of a large educated workforce who magically self-organized so as to become highly productive, but rather because large US corporations discovered how to use large numbers of even semi-skilled people more productively.
Their optimism seemed justified as Greek premier George Papandreou dropped the idea of holding a referendum.
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