These seven heads of government were out of office for 100 days – including Liz Truss Greta Thunberg accuses politicians: “Trust abused”

British Prime Minister Liz Truss resigned on Thursday after just six weeks in office. She will go down in history as Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister.

But there are politicians in Europe who have been in office for even shorter periods of time. A list of seven leaders who didn’t last 100 days, including Liz Truss:

45 days: Liz Truss, UK

Liz Truss took over from Boris Johnson on September 6 and announced her resignation on Thursday, exactly 45 days later.

She surpasses George Canning, who was British Prime Minister for 118 days before dying in the 1820s.

In the UK, the length of their shelf life has been compared to the shelf life of a lettuce. The reason: Truss took office as prime minister on September 6.

On September 23, she blew up her own government with a package of unfunded tax cuts and energy price guarantees.

If you subtract the ten days of mourning after Queen Elizabeth II’s death, she was in control for seven days. The Economist wrote, “That’s about the shelf life of a lettuce.”

The comparison went viral.

The Daily Star hosted a match between Liz Truss and a lettuce. The lettuce won.

89 days: Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu, Romania

Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu, former director of the Romanian Secret Service, was appointed Prime Minister of Romania in February 2012. He had to stabilize the country amid a serious political crisis.

While Bulgaria is no stranger to political unrest – there have been four parliamentary elections and four prime ministers in the last 18 months – Andrei Lukanov holds the record for the shortest term as Bulgarian prime minister.

Ungureanu was inaugurated by the Romanian President, Traian Băsescu. The move has been compared by critics to the promotion of Vladimir Putin by Russian President Boris Yeltsin.

In May of the same year, Ungureanu was defeated by a vote of no confidence in the country’s grand coalition. He remained active in Romanian politics and served as a Member of Parliament in the following years.

69 days: Anneli Jäätteenmäki, Finland

Anneli Jääteenmäki was Finland’s first female Prime Minister from April 17 to June 24, 2003. She led her Center Party to victory in the 2003 general election.

During her election campaign, she used confidential documents to discredit the opposition.

When asked about how Jäätteenmäki got the Foreign Ministry documents about the Iraq war, she said someone had faxed them to her unsolicited.

A senior official disputed this version. Jäätteenmäki had to resign as a result of the allegations. Her political career did not end there.

From 2001 to 2019 she was a Member of the European Parliament in Brussels.

22 days: Josip Manolić, Croatia

Josip Manolić was Prime Minister of Croatia during a turbulent period. Croatia declared independence from Yugoslavia on June 25, 1991, sparking war with the country’s ethnic Serbs.

Manolić automatically became the first prime minister of the now independent country, having served as prime minister of Croatia in Yugoslavia since August 1990.

In July 1991, Croatian President Franjo Tuđman signed the Brijuni Agreement, which further severed Croatia’s ties with the other Yugoslav republics. Manolić was then replaced by Franjo Gregorić, who would lead a grand coalition government dubbed the “Government of National Unity” on behalf of Tuđman.

Manolić was considered the second most powerful man in Croatia at the time, after Tuđman. He was a former head of the Yugoslav security service OZNA and a member of the anti-fascist partisan resistance during World War II.

He was also one of the main founders of the Croatian nationalist center-right party HDZ. In 1995, Manolić tried to organize a mass exodus of HDZ members and strip Tuđman of the parliamentary majority. He failed and became largely influential.

22 days: Andrei Lukanov, Bulgaria

Lukanov was the last Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Bulgaria. He held this position until December 7, 1990, when the country began its transition to Western-style democracy following multi-party elections.

Despite his offer to form a coalition government with the opposition, this was rejected. Arguing that Lukanov – a former Communist Party loyalist and senior politician – should be blamed for the deteriorating economy and crimes committed by the previous regime.

Ultimately, large-scale demonstrations and a general strike forced him out of office. Lukanov was murdered in 1996 outside his apartment in Sofia.

3 days: Albertas Šimėnas, Lithuania

Albertas Šimėnas is one of the signatories of the law of March 1990 declaring Lithuania’s independence from the Soviet Union.

On January 10, 1991, he became Prime Minister of the Baltic country after the previous government resigned due to economic turmoil.

Three days later, Šimėnas disappeared. The reason: The Soviet army had invaded the capital Vilnius and besieged the main buildings of the city, in what became known as the “January Events”.

With Šimėnas nowhere to be found amid the riots, Gediminas Vagnorius – another signatory to the March 1990 law – took the lead.

Šimėnas reappeared four days later and became Minister of Economy in the Vagnorius government until its collapse in July 1992.

7.5 hours: Magdalena Andersson, Sweden

Magdalena Andersson was Sweden’s first female Prime Minister and was in office for just seven and a half hours the first time.

In November 2021, as Social Democratic head of government, after days of negotiations, she succeeded in forming a minority government together with two smaller parties.

After the parliament approved her nomination, she presented a new budget for the country, but one of the parties withdrew its support. Andersson resigned seven and a half hours after taking office.

The budget was amended and approved – and a few days later Andersson was elected prime minister for the second time.