He may be cool to a parliamentary form of government, but he is keen on changing the way assemblymen are chosen.

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Though the two personally rank high in opinion polls, they have not found a way to translate their popularity into power in a parliamentary form of government.

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Courting the support of Kim Jong Pil, leader of the conservative United Liberal Democrats, Kim had promised to push for a constitutional amendment by the end of this year, replacing the existing powerful presidency with a parliamentary form of government.

CNN: THE RETURN OF THE THREE KIMS

When the framers took from English practice the parliamentary weapon of impeachment, they recognized that the form of the government they had created, with its finely tuned balance among the branches, was inconsistent with the parliamentary dominance inherent in the English model.

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The controversy over Klaus's re-election meant that when Petr Necas, the leader of the centre-right Civic Democrat party (ODS), was attempting to form a government after the 2010 parliamentary elections, several of his prospective coalition partners made their cooperation conditional on the new government making reform of the presidential election system part of its programme.

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Speaking at a parliamentary session, he said that buying five-year or longer-term government securities is one possible form of easing.

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But the MDC says that the result of the parliamentary contest, which it won by a slim margin, gives it the right to form a government.

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