Critics point out that she fits the familiar local profile of the dynastic heir to power.
Like much of the region, this country emerged from white control with a multiparty democracy dominated by an entrenched heir to power.
A1 Syrian Power Struggle The funeral planning for President Hafez al-Assad was overshadowed by reports that Mr. Assad's exiled brother, Rifaat, had proclaimed himself the rightful heir to power.
As Syria draped itself in black bunting today for state funeral of President Hafez al-Assad on Tuesday, a shadow fell over the preparations with reports that Mr. Assad's maverick, exiled brother has proclaimed himself the rightful heir to power.
This nation of 16 million people now faces a deeply uncertain period, with a fragmented opposition, no clear path to elections and a controversial heir to power, but the nation was at least momentarily united by the removal of its despotic leader.
Economists are the new nuclear physicists, turned to by governments for advice as though they are heirs to the power of the scientists who created Hiroshima.
We still live with the many consequences – as we do in Greece, where the war-time civil war ended in defeat for the communists, some of whose heirs are back power in Athens under the victorious Syriza banner this morning.
As Mr. Kim's son and designated heir, Kim Jong-un, consolidates power, he is relying on the deified status of his grandfather, Kim Il-sung, to justify his hereditary rise to power.
King Abdullah is not the only heir to political power in the Arab world whose embrace of privatization and economic liberalization shook up an old elite and drew allegations of corruption.
Nine members of the US House of Representatives met Cuban vice-president Miguel Diaz-Canel on Thursday, marking the first time Cuba's heir apparent to power has received an American delegation.
