The prime minister chooses a cabinet of ministers and runs the government, reporting directly to the president.

Again, the prime minister may choose to have other ministers from specific departments as Cabinet members.

Many ministers chose voluntarily to abandon their own parishes rather than wait to be forced out by the government.

It's still not entirely clear why ministers chose to do this.

The prime minister chooses the rest of the cabinet, which is formally appointed by the president.

Tom Clark says in this piece "ministers have chosen more or less to exempt pensioners from the pain,".

Since 2007 the convention has been that the prime minister will choose the first-named recommendation.

Some ministers chose to ignore the program's position on the last issue, and edited it from their presentations.

But, of course, that was an American-written constitution, and many ministers chose to ignore the court decision.

Analysts said the course the prime minister chooses would determine what happens next.