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… Time 's Boris Yeltsin article reveals that Kremlin strategists had been plotting his resignation for nearly a year to ensure the election of a loyal successor.
The election is an important test for the PRI, which has been in power longer than any other party in the world; previously, the outgoing president would simply knight his successor, thereby guaranteeing him victory.
Franco named as his successor the grandson of Alfonso XIII, who was enthroned as King Juan Carlos I when the dictator died in 1975.
He views either of them as the instrument, the bond, of his not being able to pass on the crown to a successor of his choosing (or of his subsequent begetting).
The Temple (today known as the “First” Temple) was completed by David’s son and successor, King Solomon.