"preceding government" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used to refer to a government that existed before a different one that is currently active. For example, "The preceding government enacted several laws that are still in effect today."
Mr Blair would no doubt blame those on the preceding government and get away with it.
"This government will be spending more on flood defences than any preceding government and we are spending £2.3bn going through to 2021".
Running the great administrative machine of Whitehall, foisting policies on a largely neutered parliament, reversing the executive orders of the preceding government, these are the acts that make up true political success.
While campaigning for prime minister, Trudeau made clear his intentions to reverse the recalcitrant position of Stephen Harper's preceding government, which refused to address legalization even after the Canadian supreme court ended a ban against it in February 2015 and gave government a one-year window to develop regulations.
By contrast, there was no improvement in these scores in the three years preceding government turnover in these countries.
That may be because voters are tired of it: several preceding governments did not last nearly as long as three years.
The preceding governments of the Institutional Revolutionary Party had a cosy arrangement with Mr Castro under which they withheld criticism of him so long as he refrained from backing guerrillas in Mexico.
The U.S.-backed military government led by Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores came to power just days before Rosal's disappearance (having ousted the preceding military government of General Efraín Ríos Montt, which was itself established by coup).
My father had already made a number of previous attempts to change the law on this issue, the first under the preceding Tory government.
Some economists say that this means this year's result is not comparable to the preceding ones.The government says it simply had a misunderstanding with ECLAC.
The slogan was his answer, as the head of Australia's new conservative coalition, to the preceding Labor government's white paper on "Australia in the Asian Century".
