After a decade as president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, he entered parliament as a Labor MP at the 1980 federal election and became Prime Minister within three years, leading Labor to victory at four consecutive federal elections: 1983, 1984, 1987 and 1990.

In 1972, a constitution was adopted, a parliament elected, and Lon Nol became president.

In semi-presidential systems such as France, where the president formally appoints a prime minister but the government itself must still maintain the confidence of parliament, coalition governments occur quite regularly.

The parliament also appoints the president of the Bank of Estonia, the Chief of the Headquarters of the Estonian Defense, the Comptroller General of Estonia, the Chancellor of Justice of Estonia and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Estonia, all on the proposal of the President of Estonia.

The Social Democratic president of the National Council ( the lower house of parliament ) Karl Renner resigned to be able to cast a vote as a parliament member.

Without a president, the parliament could not conclude the session.

The president has the power of veto over parliamentary decisions although it can be overrun by the parliament.

The president, after hearing the parliament, nominates a prime minister candidate for the parliament to approve in a vote.

The regular parliamentary term is four years ; however, the president may dissolve the eduskunta and order new elections at the request of the prime minister and after consulting the speaker of parliament.

The government is divided into three branches: the Executive ( headed by the prime minister ( although previously grabbed by the president ), the legislative that is formed by the two chambers of parliament.

The interim president was the speaker of the outgoing parliament ( whose replacement was annulled ), Nino Burjanadze.

The 1975 constitution, which describes Greece as a " presidential parliamentary republic ", includes extensive specific guarantees of civil liberties and vests the powers of the head of state in a president elected by parliament.

Guinea-Bissau's first multi-party elections for president and parliament were held in 1994.

In 1987, a new constitution was ratified, providing for an elected bicameral parliament, an elected president, and a prime minister, cabinet, ministers, and supreme court appointed by the president with parliament's consent.

An international ceremony and conference were held in Tehran ; the event was opened by the Iranian president and the chairman of the Iranian parliament.

Although the changes gave the president the power to dissolve parliament, it also more clearly defined the parliament's powers.

The new interim government held consultations on a new constitution, intended to increase the powers of the parliament and reduce those of the president.

Askar Akayev later joined presidents Islam Karimov and Nursultan Nazarbayev in sending a joint intervention force to support Tajikistan's president Imomali Rahmonov against insurgents, but the Kyrgyzstani parliament delayed the mission of its small contingent for several months until late spring 1993.

The constitution gave the president veto power over any legislation approved by parliament, virtually ensuring that the 6: 5 ratio would not be revised in the event that the population distribution changed.

In August 1990, the parliament and the new president agreed on constitutional amendments embodying some of the political reforms envisioned at Taif.

The president is elected for a five year term by parliament and confirmed in a referendum by the people.

* 2012 – A primary election is held in Venezuela to choose the contendent against Hugo Chávez, the then current president of Venezuela.

In 1939 the Liberals, recognizing that they would have to choose someone with national stature to be president if they wanted to hold onto power, picked General Estigarribia, the hero of the Chaco War who had since served as special envoy to the United States.

Miller spoke of Willkie saying, " Shortly before Willkie died, he told a friend, that if he could write his own epitaph and had to choose between ' here lies a president ' or ' here lies one who contributed to saving freedom ,' he would prefer the latter.

This convention took more ballots to choose its party's nominee for president than any other Republican convention.

The United States Constitution states that the Vice President of the United States is the President of the Senate, despite not being a member of the body, and that the Senate must choose a president pro tempore.

The very fact that the president usually doesn't interfere with day-to-day politics means that if he or she does choose to speak out on an issue, the event is perceived as one to take note of.

The president had the freedom to choose, from among members of the Dáil, any vice-president he wished, but the remainder of the cabinet had be approved by a vote of consent in the Dáil before they could assume office.

The city council will choose a member to become council president who will preside over the council meetings effective with the term of office that begins in November 2012.

Hyde set a precedent of reciting the Presidential Declaration of Office in Irish ( though the president is technically permitted to choose English ).

In the United States of America, a president being inaugurated is told by the Constitution to choose between saying " I do solemnly swear ..." ( customarily followed by " so help me God ", although those words are not Constitutionally required ) and saying " I do solemnly affirm ..." ( in which latter case no mention of God would be expected ).

The president can choose whomever he wants — this is in contrast with parliamentary systems in which the head of state has to appoint the leader of the largest party in the legislature — and in fact, only a handful of prime ministers were the leader of their own party upon taking office.

Brüning agonized over how to stem the growing Nazi tide, especially since Hindenburg could not be expected to survive another full term as president should he choose to run again.

After former PS president Guy Spitaels urged him to choose between the presidency of the party and of the Walloon Region, Di Rupo decided to organize internal elections for party president in July 2007 rather than in October of that year and announced that he would resign from his mandate as Minister-President if re-elected.

The opposition parties used the quorum to deadlock the presidential election of 2007, making it impossible for the parliament to choose a president.

The president may choose to veto any legislation, which may be overturned by a two-thirds majority in both houses.

Snow followed this advice and since then every interval between the death of the President of the Church and the ordination of a new President has been less than two weeks, just long enough to mourn the death of the President of the Church and complete his funeral services, and also for the Quorum of the Twelve to nominate and sustain the President of the Twelve and for the new president to choose his counselors in the First Presidency.

Although this is a fairly common occurrence, there are no hard and fast rules about such practices and each president is free to choose the counselors he prefers.

White stated that no sitting president should choose a successor, arguing that doing so was akin to having a monarchy.

The constitution requires the president to choose two special Kuchi representatives to sit in the Wolesi Jirga.

The district president may choose two men to assist him ; the three together form the district presidency.

Soon after the reconstitution of the Commonwealth Government in 1945 Senators Manuel Roxas, Elpidio Quirino and their allies called for the holding on an early national election to choose the president and vice president of the Philippines and members of the Congress.

This gave him authority over the selection of the prime minister, a decision that was previously in the hands of the National Assembly ; following the referendum, the National Assembly was required to send three names of candidates to the president, from which he could choose.