Sentence examples for transitional president from inspiring English sources

Personally, I would back Amr Moussa as transitional president if the presidency was stripped of its power and transformed into a ceremonial position to provide Egypt with a unifying figure during its democratic transformation and a recognisable face to the outside world.

There was a transitional President, but the rogue elements of the military still exercised enormous influence.

Nor has he remained in Damascus only to be pensioned off as a "transitional" president.

The country is currently headed by the transitional president, Catherine Samba-Panza.

Many analysts predict that Somalia's transitional president will soon ask the prime minister to step down so that he can form a new cabinet.

If Hamid Karzai, the current transitional president, is elected on such a narrow franchise, the boost to the legitimacy that he needs will be compromised.

The country's election commission has approved 18 candidates for the presidential election on Oct. 9, among them the head of the transitional administration, President Hamid Karzai, and two main rivals, the Tajik leader Muhammad Yunus Qanooni, and the Uzbek general Abdul Rashid Dostum, from northern Afghanistan.

Period 3 between 2003 and 2006 covers a politically significant transitional moment when President Yudoyono became the first president of the country elected by a direct presidential election in 2004.

Negasso Gidada, a Christian Oromo who had served as minister of information in the transitional government, became president, and Meles became prime minister.

But after the Ethiopians pulled out last year and Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, an Islamist cleric, was selected as the transitional government's president, grass-roots support for the Shabab began to fade.

Fighting alongside them are soldiers loyal to the Somali transitional government of President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, forces of Ahla Sunna Waljama, a moderate religious movement, and a smattering of other gunmen.