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Russia is supposed to be a mystery, but it rarely surprises the world in living down to expectations: most analysts were certain that Putin would find a way to stay in power even without amending the constitution.
Her failure to win the two-thirds parliamentary majority needed to amend the constitution, together with opposition candidates’ success in recent midterm elections, suggests that Argentina may well be set for a rightward shift in 2015.
That constitution – unlike Ataturk’s – was written by and for the military on the assumption that the Cold War would never end, and that the president would always be either a military person or someone close to the military.
Probably the most important task is to finalize the draft constitution by May 2012 in consultation with all Somali stakeholders, and to adopt it provisionally through a Constituent Assembly until conditions permit a referendum.
All of this points to a powerful conclusion: the UK’s centralist, Whitehall-dominated constitution – which evolved during the First Industrial Revolution, when London’s political power was matched by the north and Midlands’ greater economic power – is not suited to today’s world.
To this end, it is critical to reframe the constitution to incorporate regional interests and recognize that the UK is a multinational state.
In strategically located Sri Lanka, for example, President Maithripala Sirisena has ousted Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe (despite the latter’s parliamentary majority) and called a snap election, even though the constitution does not give him the power to do either.
Instead of attempting to impose a new Syrian leadership, the US should host a meeting with internally selected representatives to help them draft a constitution and make other political arrangements.
A decision of enormous consequence – far greater even than amending a country’s constitution (of course, the United Kingdom lacks a written one) – has been made without any appropriate checks and balances.
Today’s democratic government has taken a step in this direction by amending Pakistan’s constitution.
Most importantly, he has proposed exercising the right collective self-defense on a case-by-case basis - thus far barred by the article 9 of Japan’s constitution – in order to maintain peace and promote effective functioning of the Japan-US alliance.
Abe says that he would “expect” the early adoption of the referendum law needed to amend the constitution.
Debt growth exposed critical weaknesses in the eurozone’s economic constitution: national debts are the responsibility of member countries, but the common currency is without a sovereign.
Trump’s election and escalating regional tensions have created the perfect pretext for Abe to push for his ultimate political goal: to abolish Article 9 – the pacifist clause in Japan’s post-war, US-imposed constitution, which limits the Japanese military to a “self-defense force,” and has generally kept Japanese defense spending at 1% of GDP.
As Peking University law professor He Weifang has asked, should the CCP first subject itself to the Chinese constitution?
But to keep them there in the long term, the Iraqi government will need to amend the constitution in a way that appeases the Sunni community.
So it must: the wishes of the electorate, expressed by however narrow a margin, must be respected, even though referendums have no place in Britain’s unwritten constitution, which is based, sensibly, on representative parliamentary democracy.
Morsi brooked little opposition in pushing through a controversial draft constitution.
Romania’s 1991 constitution does not allow outright presidential decrees.
Nor is it inherently unreasonable – despite opposition at home and abroad – for his government to seek to reinterpret Article 9 of Japan’s “peace constitution” to permit wider engagement in collective self-defense operations and military cooperation with allies and partners.
So it has devised a new strategy, aimed at creating a sense of transition: the constitution will be revised to designate a vice president as the president’s legitimate successor.
Instead of Parliament acting as the sovereign body that will write a constitution, Article 60 mandates that it is to “elect a 100-member constituent assembly.”
While taking care not to anger northern voters by openly distancing himself from Shari'ah, Buhari pledges to uphold the nation's secular constitution.
Obasanjo's government has no clear idea about how to address the nation's key problems--an ailing, oil-dependent economy hobbled by $30 billion in external debt, a deeply flawed unitary constitution forced on a socially-diverse people by the military in 1999, and an exploding youth population.
More recently, in October 2009, the United Kingdom, despite having no written constitution, replaced its supreme judicial body, which sat in the House of Lords, with a Supreme Court.
The Bonn process established the principle of democratic accountability, gave Afghanistan its first directly elected president, and provided a new constitution that – approved after genuine debate and compromise – created a legitimate central government.
This means that the pro-Kremlin bloc probably attained the two-thirds majority needed to change the constitution, which would allow it to grant Putin a third four-year term, although Putin himself ruled this out last June.
The second scenario is an Islamist regime: Morsi negotiates with SCAF a transition to civilian rule;Islamists continue to dominate a restored parliament; and the new constitution establishes a theocratic state.
Now the only change he wants to make is to the constitution, so that he can retain his hold on power.
We broke no laws; on the contrary, we have been upholding Kenya’s constitution, which guarantees citizens’ rights to a safe and healthy environment.
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