List of Other Countries' Heads of Government

While the American thread, and to a lesser extent the UK thread, does well thanks to the large Anglophone population on the forums, the other country threads seem to last for only a few pages before dying. Maybe an "other" thread will keep up better - or at least be a bit fun before dying. I'll start up two timelines.

Finland: Kekkonen dies in 1949
1951: Karl-August Fagerholm (Social Democrats-Agrarian League-Swedish People's Party)

Quebec: Referendum goes through
1996: Lucien Bouchard (Québécois)
 
Quebec: Referendum goes through
1996: Lucien Bouchard (Québécois)
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2000: Lucien Bouchard (Quebecois)
 
Meh. Le bumpage.

Finland: Kekkonen dies in 1949
1951: Karl-August Fagerholm (Social Democrats-Agrarian League-Swedish People's Party)
1953: Karl-August Fagerholm (Social Democrats-Finnish People's Democratic League) [1]

[1] The coalition collapses and the Social Democrats shockingly chooses to govern with the far-left FPDL, warming the Finnish-Soviet relations but turning off the west.

Quebec: Referendum goes through
1996: Lucien Bouchard (Québécois)

2000: Lucien Bouchard (Québécois)
2004: Line Beauchamp (Liberal)
 
Finland: Kekkonen dies in 1949
1951: Karl-August Fagerholm (Social Democrats-Agrarian League-Swedish People's Party)
1953: Karl-August Fagerholm (Social Democrats-Finnish People's Democratic League) [1]
1954:
V.J. Sukselainen (Agrarian League-Social Democrats-Swedish People's Party)[2]

[1] The coalition collapses and the Social Democrats shockingly chooses to govern with the far-left FPDL, warming the Finnish-Soviet relations but turning off the west.
[2] After the chaos caused by the brief general strike in early 1953, both the SDP and FPDL take a hit at the polls in 1954, making the Agrarian League the leading party in the coalition.
 
Finland: Kekkonen dies in 1949
1951: Karl-August Fagerholm (Social Democrats-Agrarian League-Swedish People's Party)
1953: Karl-August Fagerholm (Social Democrats-Finnish People's Democratic League) [1]
1954:
V.J. Sukselainen (Agrarian League-Social Democrats-Swedish People's Party)[2]
1958: V.J. Sukselainen (Agrarian League-National Coalition Party-Swedish People's Party-People's Party of Finland) [3]

[1] The coalition collapses and the Social Democrats shockingly chooses to govern with the far-left FPDL, warming the Finnish-Soviet relations but turning off the west.
[2] After the chaos caused by the brief general strike in early 1953, both the SDP and FPDL take a hit at the polls in 1954, making the Agrarian League the leading party in the coalition.
[3] As a reaction to the resurgence of especially the FPDL in the election, Sukselainen abandons the Social Democrats for a right-wing coalition.
 
Finland: Kekkonen dies in 1949
1951: Karl-August Fagerholm (Social Democrats-Agrarian League-Swedish People's Party)
1953: Karl-August Fagerholm (Social Democrats-Finnish People's Democratic League) [1]
1954:
V.J. Sukselainen (Agrarian League-Social Democrats-Swedish People's Party)[2]
1958: V.J. Sukselainen (Agrarian League-National Coalition Party-Swedish People's Party-People's Party of Finland) [3]
1962: Hertta Kuusinen (Finnish People's Democratic League-Social Democrats)[4]

[1] The coalition collapses and the Social Democrats shockingly chooses to govern with the far-left FPDL, warming the Finnish-Soviet relations but turning off the west.
[2] After the chaos caused by the brief general strike in early 1953, both the SDP and FPDL take a hit at the polls in 1954, making the Agrarian League the leading party in the coalition.
[3] As a reaction to the resurgence of especially the FPDL in the election, Sukselainen abandons the Social Democrats for a right-wing coalition.

[4] With a combination of growing in-fighting among the right-wing government, and economic down turn, the FPDL comes to power for the first time on a platform of moderate socialist reform.
 
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