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But the government’s attempts to entrench the law in a constitutional amendment, thereby elevating the authority of the office, failed to command the necessary two-thirds support.
He favors a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution, and hopes to balance the budget over eight years.
The proposed changes were reported to include an amendment that would guarantee the same rights to property for private entrepreneurs as for state-owned enterprises, the constitutional right of Party members to choose their leaders, and even some steps toward a multi-party political system.
Only one major element – the decision to move toward an all-elected Executive Board – requires an amendment to the IMF’s Articles of Agreement and thus congressional approval.
Last December, 16 of Nigeria’s 17 southern governors signed the “Enugu Declaration” in support of the constitutional amendment that would permit him a third term.
Interpretation of this amendment has been contested terrain, but the original idea was that citizen militias should be armed.
Indeed, the one prime minister who did press for an agreement, Manmohan Singh, was met with strong domestic resistance, including from a coalition ally, making it impossible to gain enough votes to adopt the required constitutional amendment.
The then-opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) went so far as to block the bill in parliament, with the upper house’s then-opposition leader, the lawyer Arun Jaitley, arguing that India’s territory is integral to its constitution and thus “cannot be reduced or altered by an amendment.”
On December 7, we unanimously recommended that the parliament ratify the constitutional amendment.
The 18th amendment to the constitution, adopted in 2010, does precisely that, but implementation is being delayed by parties that prefer a highly centralized political structure.
And, with Li in charge, such an amendment will sail through the NPC.
Because the ECB’s price-stability mandate is legally codified by the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, it cannot be altered without a treaty amendment.
In Nigeria, young people spearheaded the Not Too Young to Run campaign, which led to a constitutional amendment lowering the minimum age for candidates.
The amendment won parliamentary approval, but was subsequently rejected by the Constitutional Court.
Moreover, in a case brought to the Constitutional Court, the AKP’s support for the amendment was used as evidence that the party was violating Turkey’s secular constitution.
Indeed, the AKP insisted on submitting the entire package to a single “yes/no” vote, despite repeated calls from civil-society groups and opposition parties to allow for votes on each amendment separately.
One new “democratic” amendment would create an ombudsman’s office – long demanded by the European Union – but without a guarantee of autonomy.
The president – to be directly elected in the future given another AKP-initiated amendment that was approved by a referendum in 2007 – thus maintains the predominant role, which underscores the AKP’s confidence that it will continue to control the presidency in the years ahead.
Elections can be made legitimate through a constitutional amendment shortening the presidential term, as proposed by Jimmy Carter in his recent mediation effort.
Jordan has also ratcheted up its attempts to limit free expression, with a June 2015 amendment to its cyber-crime law allowing the attorney-general to detain, without a court order, anyone deemed to have used the Internet for defamation.
Then, in August 2011, an important amendment to the Associations law mandated the return of more than 350 properties to religious minorities.
The point of carefully negotiating international agreements is that once they become law, they cannot be changed, except through formally agreed amendment processes.
In addition to replacing the multi-member-district, single-vote electoral system with a single-member-district, two-round voting system, the amendment reduces the number of seats in the Yuan by half.
Subsidies that SaveWas France’s recent wave of protests against an amendment that would have increased employers’ freedom to fire young workers a blessing in disguise?
If too tight – a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget, for example – the rule could create rather than solve problems: think of the economic and political chaos that would ensue if Spain, with unemployment at 21%, were forced to eliminate its huge fiscal deficit overnight.
Under the constitution’s 18th amendment, signed into law by Zardari in the fall of 2010, the president was required to give up almost all executive authority to the prime minister who, along with his cabinet, is accountable to the parliament.
A decade later, the amendment turned Oscar Wilde’s love letters to his paramour “Bosie,” Lord Alfred Douglas, into criminal evidence against Wilde himself.
At an abruptly convened session in late June, the Polish Sejm (the lower house of parliament) rushed through an amendment to the Act on the Institute of National Remembrance, reversing another amendment that had been adopted in January of this year.
So, when the new amendment passed, Morawiecki did not hesitate to take credit for salvaging Poland’s image.
The surprise decision by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to propose a constitutional amendment that would allow direct and competitive presidential elections may be a giant step for democracy in Egypt and the Arab World.
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