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Greenspan responded by building consensus more carefully in between meetings, and his successors continued the practice.

But if he were to step down, any would-be successor would first need to win a selection contest before a by-election was held.

In the video, Mordisco warned of repercussions for next year's election, which will determine the successor to the country's left-wing president who is constitutionally barred from running again.

The board has started a formal search process for a permanent successor, but Andrew Harrison, chief executive of the U.K. division, will assume the role of group CEO on an interim basis, WH Smith said.

Oedipus calls himself Laius’ “successor, the inheritor of his legacy,” and in true Sophoclean fashion he speaks more than he knows.