Few people gain the top office by default.
But the prospects of another aspirant to top office, Bo Xilai (pictured above), have been overshadowed.
With the former defense minister poised to win the country's top office, will that equation change?
That would mean investigating officials in top office including those who funded Mr Jonathan's bid for the presidency.
His maverick candidacy in the March 18 election is ripping the Nationalists apart and could cost them the top office.
(She is, among other things, the first Rice grad to hold the city's top office).*Just drove past a strip-mall shop offering "Hair & Nails Investment & Realty".
If the governor decides to run for national office, and if he wins, the lieutenant governor will succeed him in the state's top office.
The former governor did not play a very visible role during the campaign last year, as his son won the state's top office in a landslide.
Mr. Leung apologized this autumn for concealing his construction — he even built a false wall to hide his extension right before running for the territory's top office.
The decision to go public about its top office salaries is a sign that the BBC is responding to demands that it be more open.
Moreover, the authority of the top office has become more diffuse with each generation, and Mr. Xi would need to marshal powerful alliances to push through changes.
