The Head of Government under the new constitution is the Premier ( prior to the new constitution the office was referred to as Chief Minister ), who is elected in a general election along with the other members of the ruling government as well as the members of the opposition.

2004 — Prime Minister Robert Woonton visits China ; Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao grants $ 16 million in development aid.

In Australia, a Chief Minister is the head of government of a self-governing territory, while the head of government of a state is a Premier.

* 1901 – Sir James Dickson, Premier of Queensland, Australian Minister for Defence ( b. 1832 )

King Peter II, American President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill joined Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in officially recognising Tito and the Partisans at the Tehran Conference.

While contemporary sources will still speak of early prime ministers of Canada as premier, the modern practice is such that the federal head of government is known almost exclusively as the prime minister, while the provincial heads of government are termed premiers ( save for within Quebec and New Brunswick, where the premiers are addressed in French as Premier ministre du, literally translated as Prime Minister of ).

From left to right, first row: Premier of the Soviet Union | Premier Joseph Stalin ; President Harry S. Truman, Soviet Ambassador to the United States Andrei Gromyko, Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, and List of Russian foreign ministers | Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov.

The Premier has similar functions in Western Australia to those performed by the Prime Minister of Australia at the national level, subject to the different Constitutions.

Ministries of the government are composed of the Premier and his deputies, ministers, and selected other individuals ; all are appointed by the President on the recommendation of the Prime Minister ( whereas the appointment of the latter requires the consent of the State Duma ).

He was granted a state funeral on 14 September, which was attended by over 1, 000 mourners including Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, Premier Neville Wran, Mervyn Wood, Justice Lionel Murphy and former NSW Labor Premier and former Governor-General Sir William McKell.

In August 2007, following his resignation as Premier, Bracks announced he would provide a short-term pro bono advising role in East Timor working alongside the newly elected Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão.

While Health Minister Frank Anstey supported Premier of New South Wales Jack Lang's bid to default on debt repayments, Lyons advocated orthodox fiscal management.

During the final stages of World War II the future of Europe was decided between the Allies in the 1945 Yalta Conference, between the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the Premier of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin.

** Yalta Conference, wartime meeting from 4 February 1945 to 11 February 1945 among the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union — President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Premier Joseph Stalin, respectively — for the purpose of discussing Europe's postwar reorganization, intended to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe.

* January 10 – Sir James Dickson, Premier of Queensland, Australian Minister for Defence ( born 1832

* September 15 – Joseph Lyons, Premier of Tasmania and Prime Minister of Australia ( d. 1939 )

* Premier House in Wellington — Prime Minister of New Zealand

Lloyd George represented Britain at the Versailles Peace Conference, clashing with French Premier Georges Clemenceau, U. S. President Woodrow Wilson and Italian Prime Minister Vittorio Orlando.

In perhaps the last important parliamentary intervention of his career, which occurred during the crucial Norway Debate of May 1940, Lloyd George made a powerful speech that helped to undermine Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister and to pave the way for the ascendancy of Churchill as Premier.

In the national unity government of 1988 – 90, Peres served as Vice Premier and Minister of Finance.

He was Labor Premier of Tasmania from 1923 to 1928 and a Minister in the James Scullin government from 1929 until his resignation from the Labor Party in March 1931.

He is the only person in Australian history to have been Prime Minister, Premier of a State, and Leader of the Opposition in both the Federal Parliament and a State Parliament ( although George Reid had served as Premier of a colony before Federation ).

Bouchard resigned in 2001, and was succeeded as PQ leader and Quebec Premier by Bernard Landry, a former PQ Finance minister.

The Conservative Party agitated for its leader, Herbert Anscomb, to succeed Hart as Premier but the Liberals outnumbered the Tories in the coalition caucus and Hart was followed by another Liberal, Byron Johnson, known as " Boss " Johnson, with Anscomb as Deputy Premier and Minister of Finance.

Lesage became Premier, President of the Executive Council, and Minister of Finance from 5 July 1960 to 16 June 1966 ; he was also Minister of Federal-Provincial Affairs from 28 March 1961 to 16 June 1966 and Minister of Revenue from 30 May 1963 to 8 August 1963.

* William Stevens Fielding ( 1923 )— federal cabinet minister ( Minister of Finance ) and Premier of Nova Scotia

In 1995, after being elected on the " Common Sense Revolution ", a Reagan-style program of tax cuts and government cutbacks, Eves was appointed Harris ' Minister of Finance and Deputy Premier.

They convinced the Premier to have Minister of Finance Janet Ecker present the government's 2003 budget at a televised press conference at the headquarters of auto parts maker Magna International, instead of in the legislature.

Unfortunately the Sarduana of Sokoto, Sir Ahmadu Bello ; the Prime Minister of Nigeria, Sir Tafawa Balewa ; the Premier of the Western Region, Chief Ladoke Akintola and the Finance Minister, Chief Festus Okotie Eboh ( among others including military officers ) were killed in the process.

In September 1989 a commission of experts was formed under the presidency of Leszek Balcerowicz, Poland's leading economist, Minister of Finance and deputy Premier of Poland.

Most of the TRT executive leadership members were also abroad: Deputy Premier Surakiart Sathirathai was with Thaksin in New York, Finance Minister Thanong Bidaya was in Singapore attending the annual meeting of the World Bank / IMF, Commerce Minister Somkid Jatusripitak was attending the Thai-France Cultural Exhibition in Paris with Foreign Minister Kantathi Suphamongkhon and HRH Princess Sirindhorn.

He was the first Leader of Government Business and Minister of Local Government and Finance and first Premier of the Western Region under Nigeria's parliamentary system, from 1952 to 1959, and was the official Leader of the Opposition in the federal parliament to the Balewa government from 1959 to 1963.

Following the death of Conservative leader Royal Lethington Maitland in 1946 Herbert Anscomb became Conservative leader and Deputy Premier as well as Finance Minister.

Bush was elected Premier during the Cayman Islands general election in 2009, and in addition to assuming the post of Premier, he also currently ' serves as Minister of Finance, Tourism & Development for the current United Democratic Party administration.

* Deputy Premier ( Vice lantråd ) and Minister of Finance 2003 – 2005

On February 8, 2001, he was appointed Minister of Finance and Deputy Premier.

These connections were most famously exhibited when Progressive Conservative Premier Ernie Eves and Finance Minister Janet Ecker delivered the 2003 Ontario budget from a Magna plant.

* John Watkins-The former Deputy Premier of NSW and Minister for Transport and Finance in NSW.

On 28 June 1937, Bonnet returned to France when the Premier Camille Chautemps appointed him Finance Minister.

Sorbara served as the Minister of Finance in the Liberal government of Premier Dalton McGuinty from 2003 to 2007.

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He sat in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1971 to 1998 as a member of the Ontario New Democratic Party, and served as Finance Minister and Deputy Premier in the government of Bob Rae.

The NDP won a majority government and Laughren was sworn in as Finance Minister and Deputy Premier on October 1, 1990.

The theory was further developed in the " Seguin Report ", commissioned by former Parti Québécois ( PQ ) Premier of Quebec Bernard Landry, and completed under former Liberal Quebec Minister of Finance Yves Séguin.