Event class: president, office, prime minister, elected, government, appointed, resigned, term, new, post

Events with high posterior probability

Kurmanbek Bakiyev	The Legislative Assembly of Kyrgyzstan of the Supreme Council of Kyrgyzstan appointed him acting President on March 25, 2005, following the ousting, during the Tulip Revolution, of President Askar Akayev.
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali	Ben Ali was appointed Prime Minister in October 1987, and he assumed the Presidency on 7 November 1987 in a bloodless coup d'état that ousted President Habib Bourguiba, who was declared incompetent.
Hussein-Ali Montazeri	Montazeri initially rejected Khomeini's proposal to make him his successor, insisting that the choice of successor be left to the democratically elected Assembly of Experts Later, Montazeri relented, and following a session of the Assembly of Experts in November 1985, he was officially appointed Khomeini's successor as Supreme Leader.
Mar Roxas	He resigned from the position at the height of the EDSA Revolution of 2001 and was later re-appointed by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in her new Cabinet.
Vivian Barbot	As vice-president of the party, Barbot was appointed interim party leader and president following Duceppe's resignation and remained in the position until Duceppe's successor, Daniel Paillé, was elected on December 11, 2011.
Abdul Hameed Dogar	Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar took a new oath on 15 December 2007, this time on the constitution.
Emil Boc	President Traian Băsescu initially nominated Theodor Stolojan as Prime Minister, but, following Stolojan's withdrawal, on December 15 Boc was nominated as head of government and was confirmed by Parliament on December 22, 2008.
Saad El-Katatni	On 22 January 2012, he resigned as FJP secretary to become elected as the Speaker of the People's Assembly of Egypt the next day.
Iskandar of Johor	Under the elective monarchy system of Malaysia, Sultan Iskandar was elected to be the new Yang Di-Pertuan Agong on 9 February 1984 by the council of rulers -- shortly before his predecessor's term expired on 26 April 1984.
Nouri al-Maliki	On 21 December 2010, al-Maliki's government was unanimously approved by parliament more than 9 months after the 2010 parliamentary election.
Antonio Navarro Wolff	In 1991 he was elected to the National Constituent Assembly, of which became Co-President along with Álvaro Gómez Hurtado and Horacio Serpa Uribe ; it was this Assembly that drafted the Colombian Constitution of 1991 which remains the supreme law of the country.
A?chatou Mindaoudou	Her term as foreign minister ended in March 2010 when the transitional cabinet of Mahamadou Danda took office.
Ali Akbar Salehi	Salehi resigned from office on 23 January 2011 when Ahmadinejad nominated him as foreign minister.
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla	Although General Rojas had become the Head of State by means of a political coup d’état on June 13, 1953, to restore peace and order, the National Constituent Assembly, by its Legislative Act Number 1 of 1953, recognized and appointed him as legitimate and constitutional President of Colombia.
Fabrizio Barca	Barca's tenure ended on 28 April 2013, and he was succeeded by Carlo Trigilia in the post.
Albert Fran?ois Lebrun	On 9 August 1944, when the Allies restored the French government, Lebrun met with Charles de Gaulle and acknowledged the General's leadership, saying that he had not formally resigned as president because the dissolution of the National Assembly had left nobody to accept his resignation.
Rachid Sfar	In July 1986, before the deterioration of the financial situation in the country, President Bourguiba discharged his Prime Minister Mohamed Mzali and tasked Rachid Sfar with implementing a structural adjustment plan as Prime Minister.
Carlos Prats	Allende appointed him as vice-President in 1972 (The Chilean Constitution does not have a standing vice-presidential office ; rather, the sitting Minister of the Interior, as the senior cabinet minister, is temporarily designated'' vice president'' only during the President's absence during formal State visits abroad).
Idriss Arnaoud Ali	The National Assembly began meeting for its new parliamentary term on 18 March 2013, and Ali was re-elected as President of the National Assembly.
Sheikh Muhammad Tahir Rasheed	For three years he served as an MPA but when Nawaz Sharif resigned along with President Ghulam Ishaq Khan in 1993, assemblies were dissolved new elections were scheduled.
Miangul Aurangzeb	In April 1997, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif appointed him as Governor of Balochistan, and Miangul Aurangzeb resigned from the National Assembly.
Vicente Fox	Fox took office as president on December 1, 2000, marking the first time in Mexico's history that an incumbent government peacefully surrendered power to an elected member of the opposition.
Abdul-Halim Sadulayev	Shortly following Maskhadov's death on 8 March 2005, the Chechen rebel council announced that Sadulayev had assumed Maskhadov's position, a move that was quickly endorsed by Shamil Basayev, the Chechens' highest-profile guerrilla commander.
Ahmet Necdet Sezer	His term was to expire on May 16, 2007, but because the Grand National Assembly of Turkey failed to elect a new president, he retained the office pro tempore until August 28, 2007 (the Constitution of Turkey states that a President's term of office is extended until a successor is elected).
Michael O'Flanagan	Vice-President of Sinn Féin, O'Flanagan was chosen to recite the invocation at the first meeting of the newly proclaimed Dáil Éireann in January 1919.
Sheikh Anwarul Haq	On 25 March 1981, Haq became the first Justice and only Chief Justice to refuse to take the oath under the military imposed PCO, resigning on conscientious grounds (see resignation letter, below right).
Cesare Battisti (born 1954)	On the 29 December 2010, unofficial reports in Italy and Brazil said President Lula was about to announce he had denied the extradition of Battisti, just 3 days short of ending his presidential mandate.
Reg Empey	In June 2001 Trimble temporarily resigned as First Minister of Northern Ireland and appointed Empey to fulfil the functions of the office for the interim period until disagreements between the parties had been restored.
Yun Bo-seon	Rhee's government was ousted by a student-led, pro-democracy uprising in 1960 ; and Yun was elected president on August 13.
Anerood Jugnauth	He was sworn into the presidency on 7 October 2003 following the resignation of former President Karl Offmann.
Jyrki Katainen	Following the parliamentary election held on April 17, 2011, Katainen was elected Prime Minister by the new parliament and assumed office on June 22, 2011.
Chen Shui-bian	Chen's tenure as President expired on May 20, 2008, yielding to successor Ma Ying-Jeou.
Mirza Nasrullah Khan	He became the first prime minister of Iran under the new Iranian Constitution of 1906.
Joker Arroyo	He and other lawyers joined in questioning other Marcos' acts before the Supreme Court : 1) the ratification of the Marcos-dictated 1973 Constitution ; 2) amendment Six that empowered President Marcos to exercise law making powers alongside the Batasang Pambansa ; 3) the power of military tribunals to try civilians.
Portia Simpson-Miller	She replaced outgoing Prime Minister Patterson on 30 March 2006, becoming the first female head of government of the nation and the third in the Anglophone Caribbean, following Eugenia Charles of Dominica and Janet Jagan of Guyana.
Gennady Troshev	Due to this act, President Vladimir Putin signed a decree dismissing Troshev from his post in 2002.
Kim Jong-il	Also in 1998, the Supreme People's Assembly wrote the president's post out of the constitution and designated Kim Il-sung as the country's'' Eternal President'' in order to honor his memory forever.
Alf Morgans	The ministerialists eventually agreed on Morgans as a compromise candidate, and he took office as premier and colonial treasurer on 21 November 1901, despite having never previous held any ministerial office.
Donaciano Vigil	He held that post until March 1851 when the new constitution took effect and the government of New Mexico was reorganized.
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali	Ben Ali ascended to the office of President on 7 November 1987, after physicians attending to the former president filed an official medical report declaring Bourguiba medically incapacitated and unable to fulfill the duties of the presidency.
Baltasar Corrada del R?o	Governor Aníbal Acevedo Vilá did not nominate anyone for the position after then-Senate President Kenneth McClintock made it clear in his inaugural speech as Senate president in 2005 that only a well-qualified statehooder would muster the votes for Senate confirmation to Court seats previously held by statehooders in order to assure'' balance'' on the bench.
Thomas Swann	He took the oath of office on January 11, 1865, but did not become Governor de facto until one year later.
Omar Suleiman	On 29 January 2011, he was named Vice President of Egypt during the civil unrest, ending a vacancy in the position that lasted almost 30 years.
Gaston Tong Sang	On January 18, 2007 Tong Sang's new government survived a motion of no confidence brought by the party of former French Polynesian president, Oscar Temaru.
Lin Sen	Lin was appointed in his place as acting president and confirmed as president on January 1, 1932.
Hailemariam Desalegn	Following the death of Ethiopia's long-time Prime Minister Meles Zenawi on 20 August 2012, Deputy PM Hailemariam was appointed as the acting Premier.
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici	He was inaugurated as President of Malta in 4 April 1994, and would serve his term ended five years later to the day.
Lakhdar Brahimi	In May 2004, Brahimi was supposed to play a large advisory role in the appointment of candidates, which ended up selecting as Iraq's new interim President and Prime Minister : Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer and Iyad Allawi, respectively.
Themistoklis Sofoulis	He remained in Thessaloniki until February 1915 when he resigned following the resignation of Eleftherios Venizelos as Prime Minister after a bitter dispute with King Constantine I.
Christian Pineau	Pineau was designated as prime minister by president Coty after the February 1955 resignation of Pierre Mendès-France, but the National Assembly refused to ratify his cabinet by 312 votes against 268 ; his prime ministership lasted for two days between 17 and 19 February 1955.
Chang Chun-hsiung	With the resignation of Su Tseng-chang as Premier on May 12, 2007, President Chen Shui-bian nominated Chang to fill the post of Premier a second time effective May 21, and Hung Chi-chang succeeded Chang as the chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation.
Dmitry Medvedev	On 7 May 2012, the same day he ceased to be the President of Russia, Dimitry Medvedev was nominated by President Vladimir Putin to the office of Prime Minister.
Laurent Gbagbo	The UN Security Council endorsed another one-year extension of Gbagbo's term on 1 November 2006 ; however, the resolution provided for the strengthening of Prime Minister Charles Konan Banny's powers.
Tsai Ing-wen	Tsai took office on May 20, 2008, the same day Ma Ying-jeou was inaugurated as president.
Marcus Stephen	2007 In the initial period of his Administration, Stephen moved to continue the practice, commenced by former President Ludwig Scotty, of appointing a separate Foreign Affairs Minister, when Dr. Kieren Keke (a cousin of Stephen) was installed in that post in December 2007.
Alfredo Baldomir	He took office as President on June 19, 1938 ; the Vice President of Uruguay during his period of Presidential office was Alfredo Navarro.
Pedro Paterno	Emilio Aguinaldo with five companions He served as prime minister of the first Philippine republic in the middle of 1899, and served as head of the country's assembly, and the cabinet.
Mikhail Kasyanov	Kasyanov was dismissed, along with the entire Russian cabinet, by President Vladimir Putin on 24 February 2004 after more than three years in office.
Mohammed Waheed Hassan	On 7 February 2012, he assumed the office of President following the disputed resignation of President Mohamed Nasheed.
Shahrir Abdul Samad	In the 2009 UMNO General Assembly, Shahrir lost his bid for a place in the Supreme Council and consequently resigned from the Cabinet.
Mar Roxas	In January 2001, days after Estrada was overthrown, Roxas was re-appointed to the same office by newly installed President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
Namadi Sambo	On 18 May 2010, the National Assembly approved President Goodluck Jonathan's nomination of former Kaduna State governor, Namadi Sambo, an architect, for the position of Vice President.
Ludwig Scotty	Speaker Scotty resigned on 18 April 2013 amid increasing parliamentary deadlock and infighting, started over his own attempt to dissolve Parliament, he was temporarily succeeded by Deputy Speaker Landon Deireragea who served as acting speaker until 25 April when Godfrey Thoma was elected as Speaker after being nominated by former President Marcus Stephen.
Didjob Divungi Di Ndinge	After Bongo's son, Ali Bongo Ondimba, won the presidential election and took office on 16 October 2009, he dismissed Divungi Di Ndinge from his post as Vice-President.
Valery Zorkin	Though the ruling (passed with 9 judges in favor and 4 judges against), was in agreement with the Constitution, Yeltsin had the work of the court suspended and Zorkin was forced to resign from the position of the chairman on 6 October 1993, retaining the post of a member of the court.
Wilson Martindale Compton	In April 1951, in the midst of a state financial crisis, the Compton presidency ended.
Far?s Boueiz	On 7 September 2004, he resigned from office protesting the constitutional amendment to extend the term of Lahoud as president.
Carl H. Milam	He was eventually nominated for president of the ALA in the year following his resignation, 1949, but the whole situation would prove to be an embarrassment due to the previous criticisms and he was not elected.
Marzuki Darusman	In November 1999 Darusman was chosen Prosecutor General of Indonesia, replacing acting Prosecutor General Ismudjoko ; he had previously been considered for Foreign Minister, a post which ultimately went to Alwi Shihab.
Ufot Ekaette	He left office in March 2010 when Acting President Goodluck Jonathan dissolved his cabinet.
Rafael Addiego Bruno	He was President of Uruguay February - March 1985 as an interim measure, following the resignation, and accession to office, respectively, of Presidents Gregorio Álvarez and Julio María Sanguinetti.
Vlad Filat	The Constitutional Court of Moldova confirmed earlier on September 17, 2009 the legitimacy of Mihai Ghimpu's position as Acting President of Moldova, which gave him the right to nominate a prime minister.
Ahmed Ouyahia	In May 2003, Ouyahia was nominated as prime minister for a second time, following a political crisis between president Bouteflika and prime minister Ali Benflis, who was dismissed.
Godfrey Thoma	Thoma was elected as speaker for a third time on April 25, 2013 after the previous speaker, Ludwig Scotty resigned after a period of parliamentary deadlock and tension between the government and the opposition.
Pat Nixon	Her tenure ended when, after being re-elected in a landslide victory in 1972, President Nixon resigned two years later amid the Watergate scandal.
Choe Yong-rim	He left the post when he was elected Premier of North Korea on 7 June 2010 at the 3rd Session of the 12th Supreme People's Assembly.
Gordon D. Fox	Pérez, however, was not sworn in as speaker until March 1, 2010, whereas Fox took office almost three weeks earlier on February 11.
Jagadish Shettar	In 2011, following the resignation of B. S. Yeddyurappa, Shettar emerged as a major contender to the post of Chief Minister.
Babrak Karmal	He would retain his Council of Ministers chairmanship until 1981, when he was succeeded in office by Sultan Ali Keshtmand.
Ioannis Grivas	In 1989, when the Greek Parliament was deadlocked between the PASOK and New Democracy parties, the Constitution requiring that the President of one of Greece's Supreme Courts be appointed interim Prime Minister, Grivas agreed to head a caretaker government to preside over fresh elections.
Dick Cheney	On the morning of June 29, 2002, Cheney served as Acting President of the United States under the terms of the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, while Bush was undergoing a colonoscopy.
Alejandro Orfila	Upon the retirement of Ecuatorian statesman Galo Plaza from the post of Secretary General of the OAS on 17 May 1975, Orfila was elected to replace him.
Benjamin Netanyahu	Netanyahu was the Likud's candidate for Prime Minister in the 2009 Israeli legislative election which took place on 10 February 2009, as Tzipi Livni, the previous Designated Acting Prime Minister under the Olmert government, had been unable to form a viable governing coalition.
Ibrahim Nasir	Ibrahim Nasir served as the Prime Minister under the rule of Muhammad Fareed Didi from 12 December 1957 until the former was sworn in as the first President of the Second Republic of Maldives.
Gaston Tong Sang	On 15 April 2008 Tong Sang again became President following a no confidence motion against the government of Gaston Flosse.
Adalgisa Nery	In 1969, the military junta then governing Brazil ended Nery's mandate and stripped her of the right to run for office or vote for 10 years.
Mohamed Ali Mohamed	He was also Secretary-General of the RPP until a session of the RPP Central Committee on 4 July 2003 chose Idriss Arnaoud Ali to replace Mohamed.
Nitish Kumar	On 3 March 2000, Nitish Kumar was appointed the Chief Minister of Bihar, but he resigned seven days later because failed to prove majority.
Charles de Gaulle	After a motion of censure voted by the parliament on 4 October 1962, de Gaulle dissolved the National Assembly and held new elections.
John Garang	On July 9, 2005, he was sworn in as the First-Vice-President - the second most powerful person in the country - following a ceremony in which he and President Omar al-Bashir signed a power-sharing constitution.
Sanjaagiin Bayar	The Parliament approved Bayar as Prime Minister of Mongolia on 22 November 2007, with 67 votes in favor (97.
Johannes de Klerk	As a member of the National Party, de Klerk served as interim State President for nine days following the retirement of Jacobus Johannes Fouché in 1975.
Louis Grech	Following the Labour Party's landslide win in the 2013 elections, Louis Grech was sworn in as the Deputy Prime Minister of Malta.
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali	However, this arrangement was very short lived, because early the following day (15 January 2011) the Constitutional Court of Tunisia determined that Ben Ali was not'' temporarily unable'' to exercise his duties and that the presidency was in fact vacant.
Yu Shyi-kun	Six months later, Yu rejoined the administration as Secretary-General to the Office of the President and served until his promotion to the premiership on February 1, 2002.
Urho Kekkonen	Term extension On 18 January 1973, the enacting of an emergency law saw Kekkonen's presidency extended by four years.
Pierre Nkurunziza	He was elected president unopposed by members of parliament (acting as an electoral college) on 19 August 2005 and took office on 26 August 2005.
Abdi Farah Shirdon	On 6 October 2012, Shirdon was appointed the new Prime Minister of Somalia by incumbent President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud.
Kamisese Mara	Following his retirement as prime minister, Mara was elected to the Vice-Presidency in June 1992, and became Acting president soon after, when the ailing president Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau was incapacitated.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin	Raffarin's resignation was accepted by President Chirac on 30 May 2005, after the'' no'' victory at the European Constitution referendum, and he was replaced as Prime Minister by Dominique de Villepin.