Questions tagged [president]
Questions related to the office of President, a politician who is the leader of a country or a division or part of a country. Use this tag with the relevant country tag.
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How did Toomas Hendrik Ilves get US citizenship and where/when/why did he give it up? (former president of Estonia and curious character)
The question Do foreign heads of state or government have to give up a US citizenship if they have it? reminded me of the curious character Toomas Hendrik Ilves, "...an Estonian politician who ...
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Is there any far right president that improved a country? [closed]
I'm currently watching the french debates for the presidential election, and looking at Marine Le Pen (far right), I was wondering if there was any elected president considered far-right that improved ...
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Guardrails against the German president from "going rogue"; violating norms and guidelines and unilaterally making/blocking foreign policy decisions?
I first saw the following line in Politico's April 13, 2022 Zelenskyy’s Steinmeier snub triggers backlash in Germany referring to German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Chancellor Olaf Scholz:
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What is the basic difference between Turkish and Sri Lankan presidential form of democracy?
What is the basic difference between the Sri Lankan and the Turkish system of the presidency?
For instance, The Sri Lankan president lost the majority in the parliament. As a result, the political ...
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Why is Biden's "(Putin) ...cannot remain in power" widely considered a gaffe to be walked back while previous US presidents have said similar?
Together, answers to How often a post WWII US president said publicly that the leader of another country must go? (e.g. "For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power") have listed perhaps ...
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How often a post WWII US president said publicly that the leader of another country must go? (e.g. "For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power")
US President Biden concluded his March 27, 2022 speech in Poland with the words
For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.
(e.g. CBS News's video Biden says Putin "cannot remain in power&...
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Could Putin be impeached?
At least on paper, the Russian Federation is a constitutional democracy with the legal possibility of impeaching the President. There were three attempts to remove Yeltsin from office and Wikipedia ...
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What if any role did the series "Servant of Nation" play in getting Volodymyr Zelenskyy elected as President?
It is well known that Volodymyr Zelenskyy was a television personality before he became President of Ukraine. He played the lead character in the Ukrainian television series Servant of the Nation
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Is it legitimate/constitutional for the White House to turn off the comments on their YouTube videos?
I wonder if it is legitimate/constitutional for the White House to turn off their comments on YouTube videos, as they are doing currently. In 2019. Trump was banned from blocking the critics on his ...
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How does Sri Lanka's semi presidential system work ? Who has more power the Prime Minister or the President? [closed]
In france the president is clearly more powerful
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What is considered part of the "Presidential Records"?
With all the shenanigans regarding former President Trump's Presidential Records, especially with regards to paper documents and some of them being torn up and taped back together - I would like to ...
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Why do presidents receive a pension after their term of office?
When the president ends their term of office in several countries, they receive a pension for life. Why is this? (One guess I have is that it could possibly be to secure their future so their ...
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Are there cases in US history when the approval rating of the vice-president exceeded that of the POTUS for a substantial time?
Give that VP rating in the public eye seems to track pretty closely that of president, e.g.
Are there cases when the VP was consistently rated higher than the president for a substantial amounts of ...
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US government arguing for A death sentence while arguing against THE death sentence; does US Supreme Court Justice Barrett have a point?
ABC News's Justices divide sharply on reinstating Boston Marathon bomber death sentence begins:
Reciting the gruesome details of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and its violent aftermath, an ...
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How do the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs and Minister of the Armed Forces differ in their authority from the powers held by the President?
I know that France is a semi-presidential system where the head of government (Prime Minister) is separate from the head of state (President of the Republic). Now, some brief reading on wikipedia's ...
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