Gianfranco Fini was notably nominated Deputy Prime Minister after the 2001 general election and was Foreign Minister from November 2004 to May 2006.

On 6 May 1997, following the 1997 general election which brought a Labour government to power for the first time since 1979, it was announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, that the Bank of England would be granted operational independence over monetary policy.

The election of Carlos Menem to the Argentine Presidency in May 1989, however, resulted in an agreement between the President-elect and Jorge Born that gave the company partial control over national economic policy.

The inquiry was expected to report in late 2009 but was delayed until after the general election on 6 May 2010.

The first round of the election took place on May 23 and 24, 2012.

The council is intended to be transitional, surrendering its state powers to the president following the election in May.

Ethiopia held another general election in May 2005, which drew a record number of voters, with 90 % of the electorate turning out to cast their vote.

Ethiopia held another general election in May 2005, which drew a record number of voters, with 90 % of the electorate turning out to cast their vote.

Gerry was from an early time a vocal opponent of Parliamentary efforts to tax the colonies after the French and Indian War ended in 1763, and won election to General Court of the Province of Massachusetts Bay ( its legislative assembly ) in May 1772.

Whereas in May and June 2005 victory of the Christian Democrats seemed highly likely, with some polls giving them an absolute majority, this picture changed shortly before the election at 18 September 2005.

In May 2005, the only remaining state-level red-green coalition government lost the vote in the North Rhine-Westphalia state election, leaving only the federal government with participation of the Greens ( apart from local governments ).

In May 2000 the Haitian legislative election, 2000 for the Chamber of Deputies and two-thirds of the Senate took place.

Following the May 2012 legislative election where the New Democracy party became the largest party in the Hellenic Parliament, Samaras, leader of ND, was asked by Greek President Karolos Papoulias to try to form a government.

New Democracy came out on top in a stronger position with 129 seats, compared to 108 in the May election.

The first election took place on 4 May, with Ken Livingstone comfortably regaining his previous post.

On 22 May 2004, Manmohan Singh was appointed the Prime Minister of India following the victory of the INC & the left front in the 2004 Lok Sabha election.

Eleven of the 26 were elected Teachta Dála ( members of the Dáil ) in the 1918 general election and 13 in the May 1921 election.

Eamon Ryan was elected as the new party leader, over party colleagues Phil Kearney and Cllr Malcolm Noonan in a postal ballot election of party members in May 2011.

Although the party's share of first preference votes increased by some 22 % from 3. 84 % to 4. 69 % nationally in the 2007 general election, held on 24 May 2007, the party failed to increase the number of TDs returned.

Few then were surprised when Major's Conservatives lost the 1 May 1997 general election to Tony Blair's " New Labour ", although the immense scale of the defeat was not as widely predicted: in 1987 and 1992 the Conservatives had polled better than had been suggested by the opinion polls, but in 1997 this was no longer the case.

* May, Ernest R. The Making of the Monroe Doctrine ( 1975 ), argues it was issued to influence the outcome of the presidential election of 1824.

In the May 2006 city election, incumbent mayor Larry Rogers, who also serves on JMU's Board of Visitors, lost his bid for reelection to a JMU graduate.

However, the election of the Conservative Party led by Margaret Thatcher at the general election in May 1979, at the expense of Labour's James Callaghan, saw substantial trade union reform which saw the level of strikes fall, but also the level of trade union membership fall.

* Lady for a Day ( 1933 )— Adapted by Robert Riskin, who suggested the name change from Runyon's title " Madame La Gimp ," the film garnered Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director ( Frank Capra ), Best Actress ( May Robson ), and Best Adaptation for the Screen ( Riskin ).

* Suarez-Potts, Louis ; Interview: Frank Hecker, Community Articles, May 1, 2001, www. openoffice. org, OpenOffice website

Francis Albert " Frank " Sinatra,, ( December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998 ) was an American singer and film actor.

Frank Russell Capra ( born Francesco Rosario Capra ; May 18, 1897September 3, 1991 ) was a Sicilian-born American film director.

Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty, by vote of the city council, declared May 12, 1962 as " Frank Capra Day.

On 24 May 1923, Frank Aiken, the ( anti-treaty ) IRA Chief-of-Staff, called a cease-fire.

Lyman Frank Baum ( May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919 ) was an American author of children's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

As of May 2009, Rodriguez plans to produce a live-action remake of Fire and Ice, a 1983 film collaboration between painter Frank Frazetta and animator Ralph Bakshi.

Heydrich's replacements were Ernst Kaltenbrunner as the chief of RSHA, and Karl Hermann Frank ( 27 – 28 May 1942 ) and Kurt Daluege ( 28 May 1942 – 14 October 1943 ) as the new acting Reichsprotektors.

* May 23 – Frank Mancuso, American major league baseball player and politician ( d. 2007 )

* May 12 – Frank Clair, Canadian football coach ( d. 2005 )

* May 6 – Frank Nelson, American actor ( d. 1986 )

* May 2 – Vincent Gigante fails to assassinate mafioso Frank Costello in Manhattan.

* May 5 – Peter van Pels, German-Jewish love interest of diarist Anne Frank ( b. 1926 )

* May 14 – Frank Churchill, American composer ( b. 1901 )

* May 21 – Frank Sargeson, New Zealand writer ( d. 1982 )

* May 23 – Hans Frank, German Nazi official ( d. 1946 )

* May 6 – L. Frank Baum, American author, poet, playwright, actor and independent filmmaker ( The Wizard of Oz ) ( b. 1856 )

* May 29 – Frank Beaurepaire, Australian Olympic swimmer ( b. 1891 )

* May 12 – Otto Frank, German publisher, businessman, father of Anne Frank ( d. 1980 )

* May 18 – Frank Capra, American producer, director, and writer ( d. 1991 )

* May 19 – Frank Luke, American World War I pilot ( d. 1918 )