But events have overtaken him and by the weekend he could be an ex-prime minister.
The tomb of another ex-prime minister, Adnan Menderes, lies largely neglected on an adjacent plot.
And legend has it that ex-prime minister Mahathir cordoned off Malaysia in the regional crisis of the late 1990s.
But despite his enduring moral influence, many Virtue people reckon it is time to pension off the ex-prime minister.
Ali Haider - the youngest son of the ex-prime minister - is contesting a seat in the Punjab provincial assembly.
Among them, Manuel Valls, a Socialist deputy and telegenic former speechwriter for Lionel Jospin, an ex-prime minister, has been outspoken.
The ex-prime minister said the faction, Rally for the UMP (R-UMP), would be dissolved if a new vote was announced.
Mrs Gandhi the widow of one assassinated ex-prime minister and the daughter-in-law of another has been an ineffectual and aloof leader of the opposition.
And Maddalena Corvaglia, a former showgirl on ex-Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's network, Mediaset, was dismissive about Mrs Tarantola's ambitions for women on RAI.
Ex-Prime Minister Boiko Borisov said his centre-right Gerb party's chances had been damaged by comments from other parties on the eve of the polls.
For one thing, he has to watch out for Fatos Nano, an ex-prime minister and former chairman of the (ex-communist) Socialists, who still wields much influence.
An ex-prime minister, Adrian Nastase, has just been sentenced to two years in jail for fraud (part of a vendetta by Mr Basescu, say his supporters).
Ex-prime minister John Major set up the Committee on Standards in Public Life in 1994 as "an ethical workshop called in to do running repairs" to public life.
John Major, the first one, is now an ex-prime minister trying to settle scores from beyond the political grave by being rude about Lady Thatcher in his memoirs.
At the mid-February 1994 Plenum of the pro-democratic "Russia's Choice" party, a group of activists asked reformist ex-Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar to promote the quickest possible introduction of constitutional monarchy.
Mr Fabius's team will present one anyway though the ex-prime minister has said that he does not want to be party head, hinting that he might cut a deal with a friend.
The ex-prime minister's campaign has hammered on the perceived lack of security, political instability and economic degradation that have left many Egyptians longing for a return to pre-revolutionary law and order.
This figure, probably an ex-prime minister or similar bigwig, will be elected by serving heads of government for a two-and-a-half-year stint, renewable once, and will prepare and host four or more summits a year.
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In Moscow, Mr Chernomyrdin had been subjected to a chorus of denunciation from the foreign and defence ministries, both hinting that the ex-prime minister had imposed on Serbia an even greater humiliation than was necessary.
The run-off pitted Vladimir Meciar, a ham-fisted ex-prime minister whose authoritarian style set Slovakia back half a decade in the 1990s, against Ivan Gasparovic, who was then Mr Meciar's right-hand man but later fell out with him.
Mr Bell said he had "mixed messages" from Mr McGlade, who he alleges "manoeuvred" him into standing down after he tweeted "sympathies go to His Satanic Majesty for having to host" the ex-prime minister who died last week aged of 87.
His victory in parliament, by a margin of 235 to 198, was achieved by luring away former government members of parliament, including stalwart followers of Thaksin Shinawatra, the ex-prime minister who was convicted in absentia of abusing power and now lives in exile.
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Ex-Thailand Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is reported to have lodged a formal bid for the club.
Soon the ex-Deputy Prime Minister's fiery speeches were being downloaded and distributed by civil servants and others.
But the south coast club have strongly denied reports claiming ex-Thai Prime Minister Shinawatra will play a role.
Only a few weeks ago, it had feverishly accused both Massimo D'Alema, the ex-communist prime minister, and his predecessor, Romano Prodi, of a cover-up.
She has also extended a public podium to Wan Azizah Ismail, who--shades of the young Cory--is struggling to fill the political shoes of her jailed husband, Malaysia's ex-Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.
Massimo D'Alema, the ex-communist prime minister, has accused Antonio Di Pietro, the still popular former anti-corruption judge who is an oddball in Italian politics, of confusing the voters with his arguments for reform.
So I thought, "You are not going to get away with that", and I called him in the debate an "ex-future prime minister" and took the occasion of the law case to describe him in those slightly unflattering terms.
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