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COUNTRY	DESCRIPTION
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

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