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Prime Minister of Poland
Prime Minister of Poland (Prezes Rady Ministrów): head of government and Council of Ministers under the 1997 Constitution, appointed by the President and requiring Sejm confidence; incumbent Donald Tusk since December 2023.
Prime Minister of Russia
Prime Minister of Russia (Председатель Правительства Российской Федерации), head of the Russian Government; appointed by the President after State Duma approval, personally responsible to the President, and first in line to act for the President.
Prime Minister of Singapore
Prime Minister of Singapore: head of government, appointed by the President under Article 25 and chairing the Cabinet. Four holders since 1959: Lee Kuan Yew, Goh Chok Tong, Lee Hsien Loong, and incumbent Lawrence Wong since 15 May 2024.
Prime Minister of South Africa
Prime Minister of South Africa: head of government from the 1910 Union until abolition in 1984, when the executive State President (later President) absorbed its functions; holders included Smuts, Malan, Verwoerd, Vorster, and P.W. Botha.
Prime Minister of South Korea
Prime Minister of South Korea (국무총리): the No. 2 executive official, appointed by the president with National Assembly consent, vice-chair of the State Council and first acting president in succession; its powers have fluctuated across constitutions since 1948.
Prime Minister of Spain
The Prime Minister of Spain, officially the President of the Government (Presidente del Gobierno), heads Spain's executive under the 1978 Constitution: invested by the Congress of Deputies, appointed by the King, removable by constructive censure.
Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
Prime Minister of Sri Lanka: second-highest executive office, created 1947 with D. S. Senanayake as first holder; subordinate to the executive President since the 1978 Constitution; current holder Harini Amarasuriya.
Prime Minister of Sweden
Prime Minister of Sweden (statsminister): head of Government, office created 1876 under the 1809 Instrument of Government. 35 prime ministers, 53 governments; current incumbent Ulf Kristersson since 18 October 2022.
Prime Minister of Thailand (นายกรัฐมนตรี)
Prime Minister of Thailand (นายกรัฐมนตรี), the head of government under the constitutional monarchy created in 1932; selected by a joint House-Senate session, currently Anutin Charnvirakul, Thailand's 32nd prime minister.
Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Prime Minister of the Netherlands (minister-president): head of government, chairs the Council of Ministers and doubles as Minister of General Affairs; office in the Torentje, The Hague. Incumbent since 23 February 2026: Rob Jetten (D66), youngest-ever and first openly gay premier, leading a D66-VVD-CDA minority cabinet.
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom: head of the UK Government, commanding House of Commons confidence, appointed by the Sovereign. First held by Robert Walpole (1721-1742); 57 holders; based at 10 Downing Street.
Prime Minister of Turkey
Prime Minister of Turkey (Başbakan), head of government under the parliamentary system from 1923 (Başvekalet) until abolition after the 2017 referendum; 27 holders, last Binali Yıldırım, replaced by the executive presidency in July 2018.
Prime Minister's Literary Awards
The Prime Minister's Literary Awards are Australia's annual literary prizes, established in 2008, with a tax-free $600,000 prize pool that makes them the nation's richest.
Prime Minister's Office (India)
Prime Minister's Office (PMO), formerly Prime Minister's Secretariat (1947, renamed 28 March 1977), is the Indian government body providing secretarial assistance to the Prime Minister, headed by the Principal Secretary, with 122 Gazetted and 281 Non-Gazetted posts, now based at Seva Teerth.
Prime Minister's Office (United Kingdom)
The Prime Minister's Office (Number 10) is the UK unit supporting the Prime Minister, created in 1916 for Lloyd George, formally a Cabinet Office business unit at 10 Downing Street, with a Policy Unit, special advisers, and a 2026 Office of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.
Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works
The Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works is an Israeli literary prize awarded annually to Hebrew-language writers, most prominently the Levi Eshkol Prize, given since 1969.
Prime Minister's Questions
Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) is the UK House of Commons' weekly Wednesday 12 noon, 30-minute oral question session with the Prime Minister, begun permanently in 1961, with 15 shuffled questions and fixed opposition slots.
Prime model
A prime model in model theory is a model that can be elementarily embedded into every other model of its complete theory, a notion Robert Vaught introduced in 1961.
PRIME Music Festival
PRIME Music Festival was a two-day pop, hip-hop, and EDM festival held each September from 2017 to 2019 at Adado Riverfront Park in downtown Lansing, Michigan, drawing largely Michigan State University students.
Prime notation for derivatives
Prime notation, also called Lagrange's notation, writes derivatives with accent marks, the first derivative of f(x) being f'(x); it was introduced by Joseph-Louis Lagrange in his 1797 work on analytic functions.
Prime number
A prime number is a whole number bigger than 1 that cannot be factored into two smaller whole numbers, such as 2, 3, 5, and 7.
Prime number theorem
The prime number theorem states that the number of primes up to x is asymptotically x/ln x, proved in 1896 by Hadamard and de la Vallée Poussin.
Prime Planet Energy & Solutions
Prime Planet Energy & Solutions (PPES) is a joint venture of Toyota, which holds 51 percent, and Panasonic, founded in 2020 to make automotive prismatic lithium-ion batteries.
Prime Prep Academy
Prime Prep Academy was a Dallas-area charter school co-founded in 2012 by Deion Sanders and D.L. Wallace; marked by UIL ineligibility rulings, missing laptops, board lawsuits, and TEA closure in January 2015.
Prime rate
The prime rate is the base interest rate US banks charge their most creditworthy customers, set by banks and used to price credit cards and loans.
Prime Suspect
Prime Suspect is a British ITV police procedural (1991-2006, seven series) created by Lynda La Plante, starring Helen Mirren as DCI Jane Tennison, modeled on real detective Jackie Malton, and a BAFTA- and Emmy-winning landmark in female-led crime drama.
Prime Target (TV series)
Prime Target is an eight-episode Apple TV+ conspiracy thriller created by Steve Thompson, premiering January 22, 2025, starring Leo Woodall as Cambridge mathematician Edward Brooks and Quintessa Swindell as NSA agent Taylah Sanders; it ended March 5, 2025 with no second season confirmed.
Prime time
Prime time is the evening block, 8-11 p.m. US Eastern/Pacific and 7-10 p.m. Central/Mountain, when TV audiences peak and advertising rates are highest; borrowed from 1920s radio, shaped by the FCC's 1970 Prime Time Access Rule, and now challenged by streaming.
Prime Time Entertainment Network
Prime Time Entertainment Network (PTEN), a 1993-1997 American ad hoc television network run by the Prime Time Consortium of Warner Bros. and Chris-Craft, airing Time Trax, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, and Babylon 5 before WB and UPN replaced it.
PRIME trial (NCT07125625)
PRIME (NCT07125625) is a University of Bari randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial testing Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG plus L. plantarum 299V drops for abdominal pain in 124 children aged 4-18 with Rome IV irritable bowel syndrome.