Opponents claimed that he wanted to inflict a defeat on the judiciary ahead of a law reform later this year, and that he also hoped to cow the president as part of a broader strategy aimed at taking over the presidency himself and giving Italy what his admirers say would be a more decisive form of presidential government.
The new president intends to turn South Korea's presidential system of government into more of a parliamentary one.
The UNP is particularly opposed to provisions that would allow the present executive presidential system of government to continue parallel to the prime ministerial one for six years.
Government, however defined, needs to work better, and regardless who wins the presidential race this Fall, government is poised for a big makeover.
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It is all of them together - and also dozens of investigators, prosecutors, and officials of the government and presidential administration.
The European Union praised Burundi for holding a peaceful presidential election but criticised the government for limits on political expression.
More recently, she grabbed the spotlight again after deciding to sell her presidential jet and downsize the government's car fleet.
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Yudhoyono and members of the Indonesian Government at the presidential palace.
The capital contains no significant memorial to Coolidge, who is also the last President not to have a government-run Presidential library, one of those ever larger pyramids now speckling a land supposedly without pharaohs.
Tapped by Napolitano to see if he could pull together a government before the presidential election, Bersani failed, after refusing an offer by Berlusconi to join their bitterly opposed forces in a reform-focused coalition.
Others include four brothers from the prominent Ahmar family who were involved in a fierce war against Saleh's forces last May before the president was seriously wounded and burned in an assassination attempt at the presidential palace amid battles between government forces and tribal fighters.
And, it faces risks of cutbacks in government spending after the presidential election.
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Under Slovakia's constitution, most presidential powers do indeed pass to the government if the presidency is vacant.
According to the constitution, there must be a presidential election within 30 days and the government has said it intends to stick to that timetable.
Yet a deal, involving some sort of co-government and bringing forward a presidential election due in November, as Mr Micheletti has offered, may yet be possible.
With local elections next year, to be followed by a general election in 2002 along with the presidential one, Mr Jospin's government will not want to embrace policies that risk alienating voters.
All of these presidents, particularly Nixon and Reagan, likewise promoted a muscular vision of presidential power that strengthened the authority of government and introduced concepts, such as the unitary executive, which would become the intellectual underpinning of the Bush administration.
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.
The office also arranges presidential communications and travel, and inter-government teleconferences involving senior policy and intelligence officials.
Iran is scheduled to hold presidential elections in June, potentially limiting the government's ability to make any concessions on the nuclear front.
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We are definitely instructed that we need to conduct all of our work on our government accounts as part of the Presidential Records Act.
In fact, having served on the Kemp Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform he almost certainly is more knowledgeable about the economics of taxation and more principled in his pro-growth, small-government philosophy than any other Republican presidential candidate in the race, save Ron Paul.
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Mr Forbes is probably still too stiff to win a presidential race, and he lacks top-level government experience.
Soon after his arrest, thousands of Mr Estrada's supporters rioted outside the presidential palace, in what Mrs Arroyo's government described as a rebellion.
Mr Hassan said he intended to form a government of national unity, and confirmed presidential elections would go ahead in 2013 as planned.
Most of the remaining presidential campaign will be focused on whether voters want more government.
Mr Reagan inherited much of his small-government philosophy from Barry Goldwater (another Republican presidential hopeful from Arizona).
The CEOs of both companies signed the contract for 234 planes in a ceremony at the French presidential palace, a sign of its importance to the government.
Although its leader, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, leads the polls ahead of this October's presidential elections, Roseana Sarney, a conservative pro-government candidate, has been catching up.
Russian presidential aide Sergey Yastrzhembskiy said that the talks did not have government backing.
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