The council declared Dipendra incapacitated and named Birendra's brother, Gyanendra, as the regent, or de facto king.
Yar'Adua would have ceased to hold office if a two-thirds majority had declared him incapacitated and the verdict had been confirmed by a medical panel.
The businessman has a serious speech impediment, relies on a feeding tube and requires 24-hour care, but his doctor has not declared him incapacitated.
Olmert led Kadima to a less convincing election victory on 28 March; and was confirmed as prime minister on 14 April, the day Sharon was declared "permanently incapacitated", having been in a coma for 100 days.
Other analysts as well as many members of the opposition are arguing that President Chavez should be declared temporarily incapacitated, according to Article 234.
State and federal law enforcement authorities confirmed Thursday that they had no record in their respective criminal background check systems to indicate that Cho had been involuntarily committed, or that he had been declared mentally incapacitated by a judge.
Vikram Amar, dean and Iwan Foundation professor of law at the University of Illinois College of Law, discussed a largely fantastical scenario in which Trump could remain at the top of the ticket but pledge to declare himself incapacitated and allow Pence to take over as president if their ticket prevails.
In the event that some of these arrangements have not been made, it may become necessary to proceed with guardianship, which is the legal process of declaring someone incapacitated and assigning certain rights to a court-appointed guardian, which may be a family member or professional.
Operated on for seven hours at Hadassah hospital on edge of Jerusalem, but never regains consciousness March 2006: Kadima – with Ehud Olmert as leader – sweeps aside Labour and Likud in elections 14 April 2006: Declared "permanently incapacitated", having been in a coma for 100 days.
