Spanish-born, he was once a priest.Brazil's coalition parties reacted uneasily to an extensive pre-electoral cabinet shuffle, but found something in it for all their needs.
Work on democratic delegation needs coherent and integrated recording of parties, elections and cabinets to study aspects of democratic representation such as electoral dynamics, cabinet formation and policy making.
Among those cautious over the move is the children's secretary, Ed Balls, who argued in cabinet that electoral reform was not a primary concern for activists or potential voters and would split Labour.
In the published excerpts Sarkozy is heard discussing his electoral strategy and a 2011 cabinet reshuffle, while Bruni is recorded joking about how she had to put her modelling career on ice while she was France's first lady.
Since his death, Paraná has been widely praised by historians and others for his political achievements, although the detrimental consequences of the electoral reform in his Conciliation cabinet were generally ignored by historians until recently.
Electoral allies are snarling over plum cabinet jobs, unions are pushing for a hefty minimum-wage increase, and state governors are clamouring for debt relief.
Cabinet tensions over the electoral reform referendum burst into the open last night after a senior Liberal Democrat minister challenged the Conservative Party chairman to disown the "scaremongering" and "gutter politics" of the "no" campaign.
With electoral defeat staring them in the face, cabinet members warned, now was surely a time for compromise.
Song Jiaoren Sung Chiao-jenn), the main organizer of the KMT's electoral victory, advocated executive authority in a cabinet responsible to parliament rather than to the president.
The former Cabinet minister admitted Baroness Thatcher's electoral success helped bring Labour to its senses but insisted that Labour also changed itself.
If he is ousted by Labour's Oliver Coppard, the deputy prime minister will be the most senior cabinet member to have suffered electoral defeat in modern times.
