What is Provisional government?
A '''provisional government''' is a government set up in an emergency when a [[Power vacuum|political void]] has been created by the collapse of a government. They are usually unelected and tend to arise after civil or foreign wars. [[Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord]] used the term in the early 19th century. The first known establishment of a provisional government was in 1869 by the Métis leader Louis Riel at the Red River Colony. {{politics-stub}} [[Category:Forms of government]]