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Mariano Rajoy was elected Prime Minister of Spain in a Parliamentary vote on Tuesday, and was sworn in by King Juan Carlos in a brief ceremony on Wednesday.

column discussing the refusal of members of Iraqi parliament to participate in government proceedings and the claim by the Deputy PM that the United States left Iraq with a shoddy government

Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti has revealed his austerity plans, one day ahead of presenting them to Parliament.

With the unprecedented progress on long-stalled peace and constitution writing process, Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai is quickly regaining his lost charm.

Lucas Papademos has been sworn in as the new interim Greek prime minister. The move comes after a dramatic two weeks that saw former Prime Minister George Papandreou asked to resign and the formation of a unity government.

Canadian Women's Magazine, Chatelaine, named Kim Campbell the woman of the year for 1993.

Montrealers at the time felt she was set up to lose, everyone knew the conservative party would go down in defeat and they did not want a man to be at the helm when it did.

Montrealer's could not fathom how the PC party would steep so low to attack Jean Chretien, the Quebec politician. By refusing to accept the blame for the campaign Campbell sealed her fate.

As a last resort, to get the party back in favour, the Conservatives launched a campaign of ad attacks on the liberal leader, Jean Chretien.

The fight for the leadership took on a 'œnot so Canadian turn.' By October of 1993, it was obvious to all that the Liberal Party would win the election, even if they only had a minority government

In 1983, Kim Campbell divorced Divinsky and married Howard Eddy and once again divorced just before becoming prime minister of Canada.

Margaret Thatcher was the only female prime minister of the UK to date and Kim Campbell was the only female prime of Canada. Unlike Thatcher, Kim Campbell, had the third shortest term in Office; serving for only 140 days.

The fall of the labour party brought Margaret Thatcher to power as the first female prime minister in British history on May 4, 1979.

Thatcher became the acting party leader of the conservative party on Feb 11, 1975 and formally elected on September 18, 1975. Heath felt betrayed by Margaret Thatcher and refused to be a part of the shadow government.

Margaret Roberts was born on October 13, 1925, in Grantham, Lincolnshire. Margaret's father owned two grocery stores and they lived in a flat above one of them near the railway track. This women would become the Prime Minister of Britian

Canada's separation from the British Parliamentary system troubled the Queen in the 1980's, when our Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau attempted to revamp our constitution.

Also, in the same year, the British and France invaded Egypt in an attempt to capture the Suez Canal. Prince Philip maintained that Queen Elizabeth was against the attack and the Prime Minister of England denied it.

Instead of relying on Sir John Conroy for political advice, the young Victoria put her confidence into Lord Melbourne, the Prime Minister of England. Melbourne headed the Whig party. Melbourne was very conservative.

Here's several tidbits about this long-running C-SPAN program you're probably not aware of.

In the era of social media, stakeholder engagement and not stakeholder censorship is the key to winning the battle for cyberspace.

Conscious of defeat, Silvio Berlusconi appeals his beloved viewing public insisting that early elections are the only legal alternative to his government. Media dictatorship will be his ultimate political delirium.

A politician is caught telling his cohorts what he really thinks of a voter. Should we be surprised at such off the cuff remarks?

C-SPAN has given quite a treat to political junkies by giving viewers access to programming going back more than 20 years.

Mykola Azarov has been approved by the Rada to become the new PM taking over Yulia Tymoshenko's government post.

On the anniversary of Mandela's release from prison, Sunday 11 February 1990, after 27 years, this writer explores the shaky political realities of race, colour and inter-racial dating for world leaders. She looks first at her own Prime Minister.

Italy, the heart of the renaissance, the center of Catholicism and for centuries the heart of western civilization has a new emperor. He isn't new. But Italy's longest-serving prime minister, billionaire playboy Silvio Berlusconi, sure is original.

It's time for the President and Congress to put into place something the Brits have been doing politically for almost 50 years.

Edmund Barton first helped create the Constitution, then administered it as Prime Minister and later interpreted it as a judge.

Bangui (Central African Republic Dictator Jean-Bedel Bokassa appointed Madame Elisabeth Domitien as his Prime Minister. She was sworn in as Africa's first woman Prime Minister.