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List of G7 leaders
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This is a list of the heads of state and heads of government of the Group of Seven nations at each G6, G7, or G8 summit since the organisation's inception in 1975. The Group currently consists of the seven largest industrialized democracies,[citation needed] Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, and also formerly Russia. The European Union is also a member since 1977, represented by the President of the European Commission and the President of the European Council, who before 2009 was the leader of the state holding the rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union, also sometimes coinciding with a G7/8 nation, and is since 2009 a permanent position. The G7 holds an annual summit, which each nation's head of government attends. Each year the heads of government take turns assuming the presidency, whose job it is to set the agenda for and host the annual summit.
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While the current G7 consists of seven nations, it has not always done so. The group was formed as the Group of Six, G6, including all of today's members except Canada. Under the leadership of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Canada joined in the second year of the group's existence, 1976, forming the Group of Seven, G7. Russia joined the Group of Eight, G8, in 1997, under the leadership of President Boris Yeltsin. Russia was suspended in March 2014 after the Russian annexation of Crimea, the group being thereafter again referred to as the Group of Seven.[1]
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List of senior G7 leaders
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The following is a chronology of senior G7 leaders from the founding of the G6 (a precursor organization to the G8) to the present.[f]
List of seniority of current G7 leaders
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G7 tenure
- The longest period anyone has been the senior G7 leader is the 7 years, 259 days of Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel, who was Chancellor for sixteen years.[citation needed]
- The shortest period any past G7 leader has been the senior G7 leader is the 42 days of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Tony Blair in 2007.[citation needed]
- Although Japan was a founding member of the G6 (which later became the G7, and then the G8), no Japanese Prime Minister has ever become the Senior G7 Leader.[citation needed]
- Silvio Berlusconi currently holds the record of G8 Summit hosting, having hosted summits in Italy three times.[citation needed]
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- Okita was actually Foreign Minister of Japan at the time, filling in for Prime Minister Ōhira, who died 10 days before the conference began.[citation needed]
- Acting Commission President following the March 1999 resignation of the Santer Commission[citation needed]
- Due to the global coronavirus pandemic, the 2020 summit was cancelled.[citation needed]
- Canada did not join the organization until 1976, while Russia did not join until 1997. Therefore, Canadian leaders prior to 1976 and Russian leaders before 1997 are not included in this list.[citation needed]
- Wilson first served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 16 October 1964 to 19 June 1970, and then again from 4 March 1974 to 5 April 1976.[citation needed]
- Canada joined the organization on this date. Trudeau had been in office longer than any of the other leaders and so took the title of senior G8 leader from Schmidt.[citation needed]
- Trudeau first served as Prime Minister of Canada from 20 April 1968 to 4 June 1979, and then again from 3 March 1980 to 30 June 1984.[citation needed]
- Berlusconi first served as Prime Minister of Italy from 10 May 1994 to 17 January 1995, then again from 11 June 2001 to 17 May 2006, and then again from 8 May 2008 to 16 November 2011.[citation needed]
- Putin first served as President of Russia from 2000 to 2008.[citation needed]
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