Changes to correct the imbalance between presidential and parliamentary power are, indeed, needed.

More significant by far is the competition for power that takes place in the bowels of the presidency.

Chirac s shortening of the presidential term from seven to five years has, paradoxically, resulted in an even greater concentration of presidential power.

MADRID Barack Obama s first year in office has been a sobering exercise in the limits of presidential power.

Some of these lefts are in power some, as in Mexico in its last, disputed presidential election, barely missed conquering it, but may still do so.

Egypt is due for presidential elections in 2018, and his critics are painting him as abusing power and betraying the national will with this move.

The chapter also outlines the nature of the indirect election of the President by the Parliament, as well as the limitations of presidential power in selecting a government.

Jara, critical of the unequal division of power in Chilean society, vocally supported Salvador Allende, who won the country's presidential election in 1970.

After becoming President, Vladimir Putin consolidated central authority, a campaign that culminated in 2005 with presidential appointments of hitherto elected federal governors.

Stepping in to back the embattled president, the Organization of American States recently issued a call that Toledo be allowed to finish his term.

The presidential election that took place on Sunday, 14 April 2013, was the first since Chávez took office in 1999 in which his name did not appear on the ballot.

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The series of decisions by the ruling SCAF just before the presidential vote clearly indicated that the military has no interest in surrendering power.

After all, they argued, Olusegun Obasanjo, Yar Adua s predecessor from the largely Christian south, had wielded presidential power for eight uninterrupted years.

Changes to correct the imbalance between presidential and parliamentary power are, indeed, needed. The legislature should have a greater say in setting the nation s agenda.

An indirect presidential election was held in Greece on 3 February 2010.

In hindsight, the 2012 French Presidential election could well be remembered not so much for Hollande s victory and the triumph of normalcy, but as the decisive step in populist parties long march to power.

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The Colombian presidential election of 2014 was held on May 25, 2014.

A man imprisoned following the Friday of Rage (January 28, 2011) took the presidential oath in Tahrir on a Friday of Power Transfer (June 29, 2012).

A presidential election was held in Tunisia on 23 November 2014, a month after the parliamentary election.

The need to restore economic dynamism was the focus of South Korea s presidential election in 2012, which brought the country s first ever female president, Park Geun hye, to power.

SCAF, fearing an Islamist takeover ahead of the presidential election, dissolved the parliament in June, following a judicial decision that they (and the court) insist must be upheld.

Carrying out the election in a single day.

Presidential elections occur every 5 years.

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Buhari is also the party s presidential candidate.

September September 5 Presidential elections begin in Mexico.

Morsi was able to rule without restraint, trampling freely on citizens fundamental rights, because the military regime that assumed control after Hosni Mubarak s 2011 ouster scheduled presidential elections before a constitution was adopted.

This refers to two different types of power, which are possession of power and exercising power.

A presidential election was held in Venezuela on 14 April 2013 following the death of President Hugo Chávez on 5 March 2013.

There is a popular belief that democratic systems support property and enterprise because votes and legislators can be bought, and the capitalists have the money.

Gayoom was defeated in the October 2008 presidential election.

And what would Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga say if Gbagbo asks him why he unlike Alassane Ouatarra, whom the AU recognizes as Côte d'Ivoire's rightful president accepted a power sharing agreement after a 2007 disputed presidential election?

The separation of the judiciary from the executive branch is under way.

Lebanese blogger Maze is pessimistic about his country's presidential elections.

Will its recent presidential election continue that tradition?

Members of the presidential military staff were told to carry handguns.

In Moscow, the presidential election coincided with the election of municipal leaders.

Tudor subsequently finished second in the presidential election.

So Europeans are right to be fascinated by America s presidential election.

Woman votes for candidate during Russia's presidential election in St. Petersburg.