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The new U.K. Prime Minister to The leadership contest was triggered last week when Mr. Johnson, 58, was forced to step down after a frenzy of more than 50 resignations from his government, in opposition to his scandal-hit premiership. The influential 1922 Committee of non-ministerial Tory MPs in parliament on Monday outlined a timetable for the party’s leadership election. Nominations will officially open and close on Tuesday, with a new Prime Minister set to be installed when parliament returns from the summer break on September 5, Graham Brady, chair of the 1922 Committee, told reporters. U.K. foreign minister Liz Truss announces leadership bid Tory MPs will whittle the current list down to a final two through a series of ballots, with the worst-performing candidate eliminated after each round, before party members choose the winner. With calls for Mr. The joint-executive secretary of the 1922 Committee, Bob Blackman, said they were committed to doing that before parliament breaks for the summer on July 21. The first ballot will be held on Wednesday, with a second ballot likely on Thursday, said Brady. In a bid to speed up the process, candidates must have at least 20 MPs backing them in order to enter the race, up from the usual eight, and any candidate who fails to get the support of 30 MPs in the first ballot will be eliminated. Boris Johnson's exit unlikely to impact India-U.K. FTA talks Among those running are Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid, whose departures as finance...

Adam Bilinski Adam Bilinski has taught Political Science courses at various colleges since 2008. In 2015 he graduated with a PhD in Political Science from the University of Florida. He has Applying the QM Rubric (APPQMR) certificate on teaching online. His research interest include immigrant integration and democratization. • Instructor Yes, some countries have both a president and a prime minister. These are either parliamentary republics such as Germany or semi-presidential republics such as France. In parliamentary republics, prime minister is head of government and always has more power than the president, who is a ceremonial head of state. In semi-presidential republics the balance of power between the two depends on the country's constitution and the composition of the legislature. The main difference between a president and a prime minister is the method of election. While president is elected directly by voters for a specific term, prime minister is elected indirectly by the legislature for an unspecified term (they can be recalled at any time). Both president and prime ministers head the executive branch. It is complicated and depends on the country in question. If a country has both a president and a prime minister, then president is head of state and prime minister is a head of government. Usually, prime minister has more powers than the president with the exception of some semi-presidential democracies, such as France or Russia, where the president has more pow...