In the 1999 referendum, the then-government of staunch monarchist John Howard asked voters to choose between maintaining the monarchy and replacing it with a president elected by a two-thirds parliamentary majority.
The National Salvation Front (NSF) says electoral laws favour allies of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in April's parliamentary elections - a charge he denies.
Russian president-in-waiting, Vladimir Putin, has been the source of much disdain since the Dec. 4 Parliamentary elections.
Still, the two-party panel on parliamentary matters ordered by President Shanker Dayal Sharma may bring some stability to the government.
The EU statement said visa bans would be suspended for Burma's President Thein Sein, vice-presidents, cabinet members and parliamentary speakers.
"The shortcomings that were observed, particularly during election day, have led us to conclude that the elections did not meet Azerbaijan's international commitments on elections, " said Alcee Hastings, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and the Special Co-ordinator for the short-term observers.
The current EU President has also set up a working group for Parliamentary reform - but Mr Watson thinks this does not go nearly far enough.
By abstaining in a parliamentary vote for a new president, his three-party coalition looks set to keep the presidency vacant when the incumbent, Michal Kovac, leaves the job on March 2nd.
Her task is to work with Robert Hue, national secretary for the past seven years and now named to the new post of party president, in the run-up to France's presidential and parliamentary elections.
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Under a deal brokered by the West African regional bloc Ecowas, the country has now returned to civilian rule - with Mali's parliamentary speaker sworn in as interim president on 12 April.
Rumour has it that the president and the prime minister may delay the introduction of a parliamentary system until the end of the president's five-year term, rather than introduce it before the end of this year, as originally promised.
Exxon Mobil joined the No. 2 Chevron Corp and Conoco at Thursday's meeting with Iran's parliamentary speaker Mehdi Karroubi, said Hooshang Amirahmadi, President of the American-Iranian council, which arranged the meeting.
And doubts remain about the agenda for a meeting next month of the People's Consultative Assembly, a parliamentary group which until now has been responsible for choosing the president and vice-president, and which is now supposed to approve a new election law and confirm the election timetable.
But the president has not been able to translate the pledge into action: She lacks the two-thirds parliamentary majority to amend the constitution.
He was detained on Monday shortly after a parliamentary session in which President Ahmadinejad accused Mr Larijani and his family of nepotism and corruption - allegations they strongly deny.
The victory of the ruling party in every single seat at the last parliamentary election, in 1994, jarred somewhat with the democratic protestations of President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali.
He was detained shortly after a parliamentary session in which President Ahmadinejad accused Iran's parliamentary speaker, Ali Larijani, and his family of nepotism and corruption - allegations they strongly deny.
As Russian President Boris Yeltsin begins meeting with those who twenty-four hours ago were determined to impeach him Parliamentary Speaker Ruslan Khasbulatov and the Chairman of the Constitutional Court Valery Zorkin expectations are rising that yet another deal might be cut between them.
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