Mr. Lee himself was one of the first casualties of the May election, stepping down shortly afterward from his position as minister mentor and leaving government service, at the age of 88, for the first time in 52 years, since before Singapore's independence from Britain.
Finally, while I intend to stay in Parliament long enough to avoid the cost and inconvenience a by-election would cause the good people of Helensville, I will at an appropriate time prior to the next election step down as an MP.
But he also rehearses arguments against regicide he must have made in private many times before: "If anyone thinks stabbing the elected leader in the back and replacing him with some character who never even stood in the election, stepping over the dead body, putting on the crown and saying to the electorate: 'Put us into government, we're united.' It's just crazy".
There are two steps in the clustering algorithm: cluster-head election step and cluster formation step.
During the election step, the most desired solution is chosen and optimized based on selection and optimization strategies of the respective processes.
In one of the stranger twists, Mr. Papademos is apparently insisting that the current finance minister, Mr. Venizelos, who will most likely run for prime minister in the next elections, step down.
The Nevada Republican, who had already announced he wasn't running for re-election, stepped down as reports suggested the ethics panel was on the verge of formal charges of wrongdoing.
Democrats, sensing a new political opportunity in the run-up to November's Congressional elections, stepped up their efforts to highlight themes of corporate abuse -- everything from the Enron collapse to the prices charged by drug companies to corporate attempts to avoid taxes by incorporating abroad.
Days later, FIFA's 79-year-old president, Sepp Blatter, who had just won re-election, stepped down.
"If Clinton wins, Comey's controversial pre-election step will have saved her from the charge that the election was tainted because the FBI did not reveal the Weiner letters before the election," Jack Goldsmith and Benjamin Wittes wrote in a post on Lawfare.
