"The constitution is clear that there has to be a temporary president, and we have one right now".
Early on, he offered himself as a temporary president who would resign after signing campaign finance reform law.
Opposition leaders who had called for the head of the National Assembly to be named temporary president in Chávez's absence grudgingly accepted the court's decision.
They called on the United Nations and Western governments to help them appoint a temporary president after Mr. Karzai's term formally expires.
Abbott said while Australia was the temporary president of the G20, it could not make unilateral decisions on behalf of the body.
"This guy, Putin, who is now the temporary president, has come to power as a result of Chechnya," Mr. Bush said in a television interview in February 2000.
The deputy Republican leader, Thomas W. Libous, offered reassurance: "At no time should either one of the coalition leaders, Senator Skelos or Senator Klein, serve contemporaneously as temporary president".
(Like so many revolutionary alliances, the "orange" team, led by Mr Yushchenko and Yulia Tymoshenko, was purely tactical and has now collapsed).Some in MrYanukovich's team see Mr Yushchenko himself as a temporary president.
Mr. Skelos and Mr. Klein would also take turns, alternating every two weeks as temporary president of the Senate, a position defined in the State Constitution that is next in the gubernatorial line of succession after the lieutenant governor.
If Mr. Paterson refused to serve as governor by himself resigning, the temporary president of the State Senate — currently Joseph L. Bruno, 78, the Republican majority leader — would act as governor until a special election to be held this November.
The State Senate majority leader, Joseph L. Bruno, as temporary president of the chamber, assumes the duties, but not the title, of the lieutenant governor, including voting in case of a tie.
