Sentence examples for presidency system from inspiring English sources

Mr. Assad also said, "Things said about federation or confederation, presidency system, parliamentary system or whichever other regime should comply with the constitution voted by the people".

Because the new constitution retains the E.U.'s rotating six-month presidency system — its "great weakness," according to Daniel Cohn-Bendit, leader of the Greens in the European Parliament — Spain took over this agenda-setting, pacemaking role on Jan . 1

Majority voting may be extended in the revision of the Maastricht treaty supposed to be agreed on at the Amsterdam summit in June, but hostility from Britain and others will stop it going at all far.A second idea is to change the presidency system.

Ireland's success should convince us that the rotating presidency system remains a valuable one.

If the NLD secures a two-thirds majority of the Parliamentary seats at stake — a likely scenario now — it would gain control over the executive posts under Myanmar's complicated parliamentary-presidency system.

Over and over again, I've watched them construct institutions designed to translate the mystical into the practical: parliaments, presidencies, court systems.

The new constitution increased the power of the presidency, ending the system of joint consultation between President and Prime Minister, and appeased federalists by increasing the number of provinces from six to 21 while increasing their autonomy.

They admit that the current set-up has unsatisfactory features the six-monthly rotating presidency, a bizarre system of voting, a commission that is too big, a continued muddle over who is in charge of foreign policy.

Key changes include amending articles 76 and 77, which describe the powers of the presidency and the system for presidential elections that perpetuated Mubarak's rule for a fifth consecutive term.

The president replaced the system of rotating presidencies, under which member states took turns chairing EU meetings and coordinating business for six-month terms.

Under Lisbon the European Council is to gain a semi-permanent president, to replace the system of rotating presidencies.