In March incumbent President Jagdeo won the election with a voter turnout of over 90 %.

In May 2008, President Bharrat Jagdeo was a signatory to the The UNASUR Constitutive Treaty of the Union of South American Nations.

He has served as an advisor and consultant to His Majesty King Abdullah II of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and to President Bharrat Jagdeo of the Republic of Guyana.

Bharrat Jagdeo ( born 23 January 1964 ) is a Guyanese politician who was President of Guyana from 11 August 1999, to 3 December 2011.

On 8 August 1999, Janet Jagan announced that she was resigning as President for health reasons, and that Jagdeo would be her successor.

During Jagdeo ’ s tenure as President, major economic and social reforms were undertaken in Guyana.

In his final term as President, President Jagdeo became a global advocate for international action to avert the worst extremes of climate change, and was described by the Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, R K Pachauri, as “ one of perhaps half a dozen Heads of Government who truly understands the issue ”.

On 6 February 2010, the degree of Honorary Doctorate was conferred on President Jagdeo by the Patrice Lumumba Peoples ' Friendship University in Moscow.

President Jagdeo was awarded the Pushkin Medal by the Government of Russia, and the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award by the Government of India .< ref >

In August 1999, Jagan decided to resign, and temporarily replaced Hinds with Bharrat Jagdeo ; Jagdeo thus became President upon her resignation, and he reappointed Hinds as Prime Minister.

At the same time, he maintains ties with his Caribbean roots, both with other British-Guyanese politicians such as Valerie Amos and Trevor Phillips, and with President Bharrat Jagdeo.

* Bharrat Jagdeo, Former President of Guyana from 1999 to 2011

Jagan announced on August 8, 1999, that she was resigning as President because her health meant that she was no longer capable of " vigorous, strong leadership "; she said that Finance Minister Bharrat Jagdeo would be her successor.

Jagdeo was sworn in as President on August 11.

The government announced on 28 April 2011 that Ramotar had been appointed to the post of Political Adviser to President Bharrat Jagdeo ; previously Ramotar had held no official position in the administration.

Only the President is permitted to authorize the use of nuclear weapons.

It is of the utmost importance to the people of America and of the world how their governing President `` ends up '' during the four years of his term.

`` I may possibly be a greater risk than is the normal person of my age '', the President had said on February 29th of the election year, ignoring the fact that no one of his age had ever lived out another term.

Mr. Nehru is subjected to stern lectures on neutralism by our Department of State, and an American President observes sourly that Sweden would be a little less neurotic if it were a little more capitalistic ''.

Remembering the step-by-step fate of Danzig and the West German misgivings about `` salami '' tactics, it is to be hoped that the dispatch of General Clay to West Berlin as President Kennedy's representative will mark a stiffening of response not only to future indignities and aggressions but also to some that have passed.

The new President is in no position to start out his dealings with Moscow by issuing callable bluffs.

The move for establishment of a national seashore park on 30,000 acres of Cape Cod, from Provincetown to Chatham, is strengthened by President Kennedy's interest in that area.

Gen. Taylor will report to President Kennedy in a few days on the results of his visit to South Viet Nam and, judging from some of his remarks to reporters in the Far East, he is likely to urge a more efficient mobilization of Vietnamese military, economic, political and other resources.

It is a war to stay out of today, especially in view of the fact that President Ngo Dinh Diem apparently does not want United States troops.

Senator Mundt's gross distortion of President Eisenhower's conversation into a denunciation of President Kennedy as too left wing, a statement Mr. Eisenhower declared to be entirely false, is another case in point.

That this is not good politics is underscored by the latest poll figures which show that 72 per cent of the people like the way in which the new President is conducting the nation's business.

Recent statements by the President and Defense Department spokesmen have, to the contrary, assured us that our lead is very great.

In the first place, a large part of the discrepancy between President Eisenhower's estimate of a 1.5 billion dollar surplus for the same period and the new estimate of an almost seven billion dollar deficit is the result of the outgoing President's farewell gift of a political booby-trap to his successor.

`` The President says '', the translator came in, `` that the reason he asked you where you were going is because he hoped you would be visiting other areas in Southeast Asia, and that everywhere you went, you would seek the answer to your question.

I would like to see you devote some space in an early issue to the news blackout concerning President Kennedy's activities, so far as Southern California is concerned.

You remember the words of President Kennedy a week or so ago, when someone asked him when he was in Canada, and Dean Rusk was in Europe, and Vice President Johnson was in Asia, `` Who is running the store ''??

As this year marks the centennial of the beginning of the Civil War, this fact is being commemorated with several exhibits throughout the State, but most of all paying tribute to the first Rhode Island Volunteers who rushed to the defense of the City of Washington, putting at the disposal of President Lincoln the only fully equipped and best trained regiment at this time.

This is the question now facing President Kennedy: How to put a stop to the Soviet buildup in Cuba and to Communist infiltration of this hemisphere??

We cannot test public opinion until the President and the leaders of the country have gone to the public to explain what is required and have asked them for support for the necessary action.

These services at which attendance is voluntary are led by the Chaplain, by the President of the College, by selected faculty members, students, and visitors.

In working out the practical legal conclusions President Waters was not thinking only of this pilot project, for it is planned to duplicate this program or system in other builder developments nationally.

According to the London IPO filings, the management team was Philippe Kahn as President, Spencer Ozawa as VP of Operations, Marie Bourget as CFO, and Spencer Leyton as VP of business development, while all software development was continuing to take place in Denmark and later London as the Danish co-founders moved there.

Abel Pacheco was elected President, under a national unity platform, but continuing most of the neoliberal and conservative policies of Miguel Ángel Rodríguez.

President Bongo has remained involved in the continuing Congolese peace process.

As a continuing part of the social pact, and even more as the result of a fierce union-government battle, President Callejas announced in 1991 a 27. 8 percent increase over a minimum wage that the government had earlier agreed upon.

The current President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, has voiced displeasure of Caribbean and other Commonwealth countries continuing to rely on the British JCPC.

After Tripoli made new demands on the new President for an immediate sum of $ 225, 000 and an annual payment of $ 25, 000, President Jefferson refused and at that point decided it would be easier to fight the pirates than give into their continuing demands.

* The presence and rise of a significant number of women as heads of state and heads of government in a number of countries across the world, many being the first women to hold such positions, such as Soong Ching-ling continuing as the first Chairwoman of the People's Republic of China until 1972, Isabel Martínez de Perón as the first woman President in Argentina in 1974 until being deposed in 1976, Elisabeth Domitien becomes the first woman Prime Minister of Lesotho, Indira Gandhi continuing as Prime Minister of India until 1977, Lidia Gueiler Tejada becoming the interim President of Bolivia beginning from 1979 to 1980, Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo becoming the first woman Prime Minister of Portugal in 1979, and Margaret Thatcher becoming the first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Starting under the administration of the French President Charles de Gaulle and continuing until 1970, France reduced its dollar reserves, trading them for gold from the U. S. government, thereby reducing U. S. economic influence abroad.

Sometimes, however, the Speaker will play a big role even when they belong to the same party as the President, such as when Speaker Nancy Pelosi played a role in continuing the push for health care reform during the presidency of fellow Democrat Barack Obama ; subsequently the Republicans targeted her in the 2010 midterm election.

Affirmative action refers to policies that take factors including " race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or national origin " On 24 September 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Executive Order 11246, thereby replacing Executive Order 10925 and affirming Federal Government's commitment " to promote the full realization of equal employment opportunity through a positive, continuing program in each executive department and agency ".

He was a major critic of President Mirabeau Lamar, who advocated continuing independence of Texas, annihilation of American Indians and the extension of Texas's boundaries to the Pacific Ocean.

General Taylor advised the President on military matters, intelligence, and Cold War planning and paid special attention to the continuing Berlin crisis and growing difficulties in Indochina.

Theisen had the Village Board change the title of Village President to Mayor but continuing the Village Board system of government.

Alexander F. Lobdell, the store's proprietor, was appointed postmaster by President Abraham Lincoln and was reappointed by Presidents Grant, Hayes, Garfield and Arthur, continuing as Brewster's postmaster until 1887.

Commercial banking firm ’ s continuing desire for greater powers received support when Ronald Reagan became President and appointed banking regulators who shared an “ attitude towards deregulation of the financial industry .”

In the 2002 Congressional midterm elections, Gephardt campaigned on the issues of the economy and Social Security, however the continuing resonance of the September 11 attacks, the momentum for military action against Iraq, and President George W. Bush's popularity lead to Republican gains, with the Democrats losing four House seats.

The President of the Confederation chairs the meetings of the Federal Council and undertakes special representational duties, while continuing to head his or her department.

After initially supporting, but later coming to oppose, his successor, in 1906 he led another revolt, deposing elected President Lizardo Garcia, being declared supreme dictator by the army and continuing in office until August 12, 1911.

Regan was eventually forced to resign because he was unable to contain the continuing political damage being done to President Reagan by public exposure of the Iran / contra scandal.

In 1953, Stalin died, and after new 1952 presidential election, President Dwight D. Eisenhower used the opportunity to end the Korean War, while continuing Cold War policies.