Martin Pecina the Protection of Competition. In May 2009, Pecina became Minister of Interior in the cabinet of the Prime Minister Jan Fischer. He was nominated by the Social Democratic Party. Martin Pecina Martin Pecina (born 9 July 1968) is a Czech politician, who twice served as Minister of Interior of the Czech Republic. He was the Minister of Interior in caretaker governments of Jan Fischer and Jiří Rusnok. He also served as the chairman of the Office for the Protection of Competition. Pecina was born in Ostrava. He's a graduate of the Technical University of Ostrava. He worked as a programmer
Prime Minister of Australia becomes acting Prime Minister in those circumstances. Three Prime Ministers have died in office – Joseph Lyons (1939), John Curtin (1945) and Harold Holt (1967). In each of these cases, the Deputy Prime Minister (an unofficial office at the time) became an interim Prime Minister, pending an election of a new leader of the government party. In none of these cases was the interim Prime Minister successful at the subsequent election. As of , there are seven living former Australian Prime Ministers. The greatest number of living former Prime Ministers at any one time was eight. This has occurred twice: