Reunification would provide a pretext to put off presidential elections, on the grounds that the consitutional details over the move took priority over elections.
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"Basciano's concerns here are over the consitutional rights that he fought for in both theaters of World War II,"
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Meshkov told the emergency session of parliament that only a Ukrainian consitutional court could remove him from office, and such a court does not yet exist.
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More work is now required because the Consitutional Court rejected the consititution on mostly technical points, requiring the assembly to rework provisions cited by the court.
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The measure Cardoso approved Monday won't be complete until consitutional revisions are made, and that could take a year, Finance Minister Pedro Malan said.
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Poland's President Aleksander Kwasniewski on Monday asked the Consitutional Tribunal to review a tax amnesty that also calls for property declarations criticized by some as invasions of privacy.
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His rival President Chandrika Kumaratunga _ who has broad consitutional powers _ fired three of his Cabinet colleagues, suspended Parliament and stationed additional armed military men around the capital.
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President Nursultan Nazarbayev announced Thursday that he has vetoed a controversial media bill, saying that the country's Consitutional Council had found that it would violate the constitution.
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"If you downgrade the Second Consitutional Amendment and its gun protection provisions, then next it's the Fifth Amendemnt and then the First and on and on.
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Kaunda arrived home from a trip to Canada just as his successor, President Frederick Chiluba, signed into law controversial consitutional amendments disqualifying him from polls scheduled later this year.
