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Turkey’s Death SpiralBISHKEK – The series of terrorist attacks that have struck Turkey over the last year are sending the country – once viewed as a democratic, secular model for the Middle East – into a death spiral at the very moment when its people are to vote on a new constitution next month.
The recent referendum in Chechnya on a new constitution coincided with the start of the war in Iraq.
The outcome was better than anyone in the Kremlin could have hoped for: 89% of the Chechen electorate turned out to vote, and 96% of voters supported the Moscow-drafted constitution.
But if officials falsified 10%, 20%, or even 30% of the ballots--and no one suggests such a level of fraud--the vote in favor of the constitution would still amount to an overwhelming majority of Chechnya's population.
They are prepared to discuss a constitution according to which they remain within the Russian Federation, but with a great deal of local autonomy, such as the republic of Tartarstan enjoys.
The Chechens hope that adopting a constitution, followed by the election of a Chechen president, will spare them the horrors of purge and arrests that would invariably have followed had either side secured a military victory.
Thailand is scheduled to hold a national election next year, having approved a new constitution in August.
Egypt has amended its constitution to allow it presidential election to be contested.
As things stand, this is impossible, because Germany’s constitution does not provide for holding referenda; so the first step would have to be a revision of the Constitution.
Turkey Plays the European CardElected with a parliamentary majority almost big enough to change the country's constitution, Turkey's new Islamist government faces daunting challenges.
The Surrender of Japan’s Peace ConstitutionWASHINGTON, DC – In February, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called on the National Diet to amend Article 9 of the country’s constitution, which renounces war as a means of settling disputes.
Drafted by the United States after World War II, the constitution contains “some parts [that] do not fit into the current period,” Abe said.
Revising the constitution would provide stronger legal grounding for Abe’s controversial defense measures.
Similarly, some 51% of respondents disapproved of the laws on constitutional grounds, believing them to be in violation of Article 9 of the constitution, the provision that Abe would like to alter.
These voters are less likely to support scrapping the bills; indeed, some of them may be mollified if Abe is successful in amending the constitution.
No matter how unenthusiastic the Japanese might be about Abe’s security bills and his attempts to change the constitution, they would prefer that the issue be relegated to a back burner.
The Assembly’s first responsibility will be to draft a new constitution that can help reunify Nepal’s disparate communities.
Like termites, India's Hindu fascists have weakened the foundations of our constitution, parliament, and the courts - the backbone of every democracy.
This means regular elections, a democratic constitution, and civil society, coupled with electoral fraud, skewed representation, human rights violations, and restrictions on civil liberties.
Moreover, the draft European constitution will prohibit discrimination in social-welfare benefits against immigrants from other EU countries.
Deng Xiaoping added them to the Chinese constitution after the Cultural Revolution, in order to prevent the recurrence of chaotic and brutal one-man rule.
More important is that an almost equally large majority values the power to hire and fire their czar – in free elections held at regular intervals in line with the constitution.
If, by contrast, he leaves the presidency, gets himself appointed prime minister, and overhauls the constitution to shift powers from the former to the latter, we will know that he is going for a personal regime after all.
Anti-euro groups, which have been proliferating across Europe, hope that the court will decide that the OMT program violates either the European Union treaties, the ECB’s statute, or Germany’s constitution.
As long as OMT is perceived to be compatible with EU treaties and with the German constitution, which seems likely, the judges will not block the program.
Indeed, it ruled that German participation in the single currency was consistent with Germany’s constitution – as was the Lisbon Treaty, the EFSF, the ESM, the ECB’s breach of the EU’s no-bailout clause, and German guarantees for other eurozone countries’ debts.
Iraq’s Critical ElectionBLOOMINGTON – Iraqis go to the polls on March 7 to elect a new Parliament for the second time under the country’s permanent constitution of 2006.
The institutional checks and balances built into Russia’s constitution have been neutralized.
But just consider the possibility: Amend the US constitution, as has happened 27 times, to include “Donald Trump Thought,” and fire up the masses, yet again, with the hope of “America First.”
And when populists have an opportunity to write a new constitution, why should they not ride roughshod over any opposition, which, by definition, must comprise the enemies of the people (who often are accused of being foreign agents)?
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