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COUNTRY | DESCRIPTION |
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Albania | Mr Rama was a charismatic mayor of Tirana before becoming prime minister |
Antigua and Barbuda | Baldwin Spencer's election victory ended the long-running Bird dynasty |
Barbados | Mr Stuart's Democratic Labour Party won a narrow victory in the 2013 parliamentary elections |
Belize | Prime Minister Barrow is a lawyer by profession |
Bulgaria | Plamen Oresharski became prime minister in the midst of a severe crisis |
Cambodia | Cambodia's veteran premier Hun Sen |
Canada | Prime Minister Stephen Harper leads Canada's Conservative government |
Croatia | Zoran Milanovic has been a keen advocate of EU membership |
Dominica | Roosevelt Skerrit |
East Timor | Xanana Gusmao led the armed fight against Indonesian rule |
Estonia | Andrus Ansip is the longest-serving prime minister since independence in 1991 |
Ethiopia | Hailemariam Desalegn was deputy to long-term leader Meles Zenawi |
Finland | Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen is a former teacher |
France | Jean-Marc Ayrault was elected as prime minister in May 2012 |
Hungary | Prime Minister Viktor Orban |
Iceland | Mr Gunnlaugsson belongs to a new generation of Icelandic politicians |
Iraq | Iraqi premier Nouri al-Maliki |
Israel | Mr Netanyahu campaigned on a policy of toughness towards Palestinian militancy |
Jamaica | Mrs Simpson-Miller is serving her second term as prime minister |
Japan | Mr Abe's nationalist positions have in the past angered Japan's neighbours |
Jordan | Abdullah Ensour has vowed to speed up economic and political reform |
Latvia | Ms Straujuma trained as an economist before becoming a civil servant |
Lebanon | Outgoing Prime Minister Najib Mikati struggled to overcome Lebanon's sectarian tensions |
Lesotho | Mr Thabane heads a coalition |
Malaysia | Najib Abdul Razak |
Mauritius | Navin Ramgoolam has been PM since 2005 |
Moldova | Prime Minister Iurie Leanca |
Montenegro | Mr Djukanovic has been prime minister or president of Montenegro for most of the period since 1991 |
Morocco | Mr Benkirane insists that his party will not seek to curtail civil liberties in Morocco |
Netherlands | Mark Rutte won a fresh mandate in September 2012 |
New Zealand | Mr Key's victory ended nine years of Labour rule |
Niue | Toke Talagi |
Norway | Erna Solberg heads a right-wing coalition |
Papua New Guinea | Peter O'Neill has acknowledged the need to crack down on corruption |
Portugal | Passos Coelho has the task of steering the country out of troubled economic waters |
Republic of Macedonia | Nikola Gruevski has family roots in the Greek region of Macedonia |
Romania | Victor Ponta has been accused of undermining the rule of law |
Saint Kitts and Nevis | Denzil Douglas is serving his fourth term |
Saint Lucia | Kenny Anthony also held the post of prime minister between 1997 and 2006 |
Samoa | Tuila'epa Sailele Malielegaoi, in office since 1998 |
Serbia | Mr Dacic's Socialist Party is the junior partner in Serbia's coalition government |
Singapore | Lee Hsien Loong |
Slovakia | Robert Fico's party won a landslide victory in 2012 |
Slovenia | Alenka Bratusek became prime minister in the middle of a severe economic and political crisis |
Solomon Islands | Mr Lilo became prime minister after his predecessor lost the support of MPs |
Spain | Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy came to power at a time of economic crisis |
Sweden | Fredrik Reinfeldt is in his second term of office |
Thailand | Thailand enjoyed a period of relative stability for the first two years of Ms Yingluck's premiership |
The Bahamas | Perry Christie, left, is serving his second, non-consecutive term as premier |
Tonga | Lord Tu'ivakano is a former speaker of Parliament |
Trinidad and Tobago | Kamla Persad-Bissessar, the nation's first female prime minister |
Turkey | Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan |
Ukraine | Mykola Azarov resigned at a time of unrest |
United Kingdom | David Cameron heads a coalition government |
Vietnam | Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung is into his second term |