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| | Prime Minister - Unipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | In parliamentary systems like the British Westminster system, the prime minister is the head of the government while the position of head of state is largely ceremonial. |
 | | The post of prime minister is one which may be encountered both in constitutional monarchies (such as Belgium, Denmark, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, and the United Kingdom), and in republics in which the head of state is an elected or unelected official with varying degrees of real power. |
 | | Other common forms include president (or chairman) of the Council of Ministers (for example in Italy, as Presidente del Consiglio dei Ministri), or of the Executive Council (andc.), or "Minister-President". |
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