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Voters Back Turkish Changes ANKARA, Turkey, Oct. 21 (Reuters) — Voters on Sunday resoundingly approved a referendum on constitutional changes that include elections of future presidents by the people instead of Parliament.

Defenders of Mr. Berlusconi have pointed to what they call a "Jacobin" climate in which magistrates have become a de facto opposition instead of Parliament, where the center-left opposition is weak and divided and groupings that have broken from the center-right coalition are not seen as having enough power to form a new government.

Gul's term expires in 2014, at which point the president will be elected, for the first time, by popular vote instead of by Parliament.

ROME — After months out of the spotlight, former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy made a rare public appearance on Friday to call for an overhaul of the country's Constitution that would allow Italians to directly elect the nation's president, instead of letting Parliament make that choice, as is now the case.

2007 October - Voters in a referendum back plans to have future presidents elected by the people instead of by parliament.

Perhaps the legislation's most controversial proposal, one that HAZU's law experts say might be unconstitutional, is the suggested merging of Croatia's two national councils (one for science and one for higher education) into a single body, whose members would be appointed directly by the government instead of the parliament, as is currently done.

CORRECTION: A previous photo in this article showed the Catalan parliament instead of the Spanish parliament.

The EU's new foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, said the bloc's 28 foreign ministers discussed on Monday how they could start "a positive process with the Israelis and Palestinians to relaunch a peace process". CORRECTION: A previous photo in this article showed the Catalan parliament instead of the Spanish parliament.

Instead, the siege of parliament continued until the leaders of Jamaat realized they had no way out.

"Instead, the [member of parliament] took advantage of his connections to the ministry of information and culture to launch a campaign against 1TV," he said.