Thus, Mr Medvedev went out of his way to pay respect to the constitution, only to propose a significant change: to extend the presidential term from four to six years, and the parliament's from four to five years.
The move to extend the presidential term was widely seen as a step toward Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's return to the presidency.
In Russia, where the lower house of parliament gave final approval to a measure to extend the presidential term to six years, from four, Moscow's RTS index was up 2.8%, led by Gazprom, up 5.6%.
Since the launch of the euro, moreover, Italy's debt managers have managed to extend the average term of its borrowing to almost seven years, locking in then-prevailing interest rates and ensuring that less of the outstanding debt is subject to abrupt rate increases.
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The government is likely to begin negotiating with current franchises to extend contracts for the short term, which will prove a lengthy and difficult process.
Some say they expect the benefits could extend well beyond the obvious short-term hotel-room bookings that will come from 45, 000 attendees.
Now, the key to this is the President wants to ensure that these reforms will actually strengthen the programs and extend the life of these programs over the long term.
In other news overnight, well-known, bow-tie-wearing commodity trader Jimmy Rogers reportedly said Tuesday that world currencies being debased will allow raw commodity markets, including the precious metals, to extend their long-term price uptrends for the next eight to 10 years.
But since that is impossible, given that Republicans refuse to countenance any tax increases and Democrats refuse to cut any spending on entitlements, the best short-term remedy would be to extend the Bush tax cuts for another three years.
You may recall the December deal, following on the heels of the Republican wave election victory of 2010, wherein President Obama agreed to continue the tax cuts for all Americans in exchange for Congress agreeing to extend long-term unemployment benefits for the many Americans who were out of work.
She also has taken heat for helping Bloomberg get the council to agree to extend term limits so he could run for a third time in 2008, without asking the voters who had approved a two-term limit twice in the 1990s.
The constitution expressly states in Article 239 that any president who seeks to amend the constitution and extend his term is automatically disqualified and is no longer president.
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Mr. Rifi would retire because of his age on April first, but because of Lebanon's precarious situation, Mr. Mikati asked the cabinet to amend the regulations and extend his term.
In any event, they probably reason that the armed forces will be able to figure out any necessary fixes over a year's time (which - wink, wink - coincidentally, will extend the implementation of this presidential decision past the mid-term congressional elections).
It is incredibly clear that Manuel Zelaya, following Hugo Chavez's plan, violated the law, which expressly states in Article 239 that any president who seeks to amend the constitution and extend his term in office is automatically disqualified and is no longer president.
They have offered for me to make a one-off lump sum payment to bring the account up to date or to extend my mortgage term, but this does not alter the fact that it is their error that will now impact on my finances.
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In fact, the legislative, executive and judicial powers are so well respected in Honduras that when President Manuel Zelaya wanted to illegally change the constitution to extend his term in office, these two branches conformed by sympathizers and opponents of Mr. Zelaya, acted independently and in accordance to the law declaring that this move was illegal.
When it comes to revenues, the GOP reprises its long-term pledge to permanently extend all of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts.
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Soon after winning the presidency for a second term, President Kumaratunga appeared to extend the hand of friendship to her main challenger, Ranil Wickremesinghe, the former prime minister who leads the opposition United National Party.
You have the right to extend your payment term so you have lower monthly payments.
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There will be another attempt to extend unemployment insurance to the long-term unemployed.
The bill proposes that before a school could be shut the local authority would have to study alternatives to closure, provide an educational benefit statement, consult for a minimum of six weeks of term time and extend the list of consultees to include school inspectors.
We have voted three times -- and tomorrow we will vote a fourth -- to simply extend the benefits for those that are unemployed for a long term, simply to extend them a few more weeks.
To limit contagion, the leaders gave enlarged powers to the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) to extend short-term loans, recapitalise banks and buy bonds of troubled sovereigns in the markets.
And the late week announcement by GOP leaders on willingness to extend the debt ceiling did not hurt things (at least in the short-term).
Mr. JOE GEEVER (Spokesman, Surfrider Foundation): We're concerned about, you know, one that the desal may extend the life of these once-through cooling systems or, in the short term, exacerbate how much marine life mortality is going on right now.
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