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。

youdao

The prime minister, David Cameron (pictured left), is a fan.

大卫·卡梅隆首相(图中左侧)就是其粉丝。

youdao

He surprise resignation of Japan's prime minister, Yasuo Fukuda, has once again left the world's second-largest economy rudderless-just as it seems to be drifting dangerously towards the rocks.

正好像危险的朝着岩石漂流一样，首相福田康夫的突然辞职再一次使日本这个全球第二大经济体处于无人掌舵的境地。

youdao

Iraq has been mired in a political stalemate since legislative elections in March left Shi'ite political factions vying for dominance, and the right to form a government and to choose a prime minister.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says there are no formal meetings planned, but she left open the possibility that she and President Barack Obama might interact with Burmese Prime Minister Thein Sein or other officials when they take part in a U.S.-ASEAN summit-level dialogue Sunday in Singapore.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

Maybe nothing: although Wim Kok, the popular centre-left prime minister, resigned on May 19th, it remains unclear whether he or his government will actually be gone for good.

ECONOMIST: The Netherlands

His foreign circle ranges from Peter Mandelson, confidant of Tony Blair, the British centre-left prime minister, to Joachim Bitterlich, former adviser on Europe to the centre-right Helmut Kohl.

ECONOMIST: Pascal Lamy, free-market Frenchman?

D-66, the little left-libertarian party in the country's ruling coalition, briefly upset the governing consensus and caused the country's mild-left prime minister, Wim Kok, to hand in his resignation, was short-lived.

ECONOMIST: Benelux: A little bit of a shock | The