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Originally Posted by Jimbuna
Actually on this matter he is quite correct, not that I'm overjoyed at the prospect.
"Under normal constitutional processes in Britain, when a government collapses, the leader of the opposition is called on to form a government"
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But is it necessary, that the leader of that party has to be the PM? Finland's late-president Mauno Koivisto was never elected to the Eduskunta (Parliament of Finland) and he never served as leader of the Social Democratic Party. Despite this, he served twice as prime minister (22.3.1968–14.5.1970 and 6.5.1979–26.1.1982) and after second term he was elected by Eduskunta to become Finland's 8th president (at the time, parliament selected president, not public).