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Hassan Sabeh
Major General Hassan Sabeh (حسن سبع) is a Lebanese politician and was the Interior Minister and Municipalities in the 2005-2009 cabinets of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora. A Sunni Islam in Lebanon, Sunni Muslim and former Army officer, he was elected on the Saad Hariri, pro-Hariri Future Movement slate in the Elections in Lebanon, 2005 parliamentary election and became Minister for the Interior in the new government. On 5 February 2006 he tendered his resignation to an emergency meeting of the Lebanese cabinet after thousands of protesters torched the building that houses the Danish consulate in Beirut during the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy. BBC News, 6 February 2006. After Pierre Amine Gemayel's assassination, Sabeh returned to the government. Reference ...
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Prime Minister
A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not the head of state, but rather the head of government, serving under either a monarch in a democratic constitutional monarchy or under a president in a republican form of government. In parliamentary systems fashioned after the Westminster system, the prime minister is the presiding and actual head of government and head/owner of the executive power. In such systems, the head of state or their official representative (e.g., monarch, president, governor-general) usually holds a largely ceremonial position, although often with reserve powers. Under some presidential systems, such as South Korea and Peru, the prime minister is the leader or most senior member of the cabinet, not the head of government. In many systems, the prim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
