It is widely believed that the prime minister favours a presidential system with boosted constitutional powers.
It is thought he may seek an amendment to the constitution and introduce a presidential system.
But Mr Lavin says that Chile's strongly presidential system would allow him to govern effectively.
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Liberals favour a more strongly presidential system in the hope that a non-Islamist figure will prevail.
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Some believe that replacing the presidential system of government with a parliamentary system would reduce endemic official corruption.
The new president intends to turn South Korea's presidential system of government into more of a parliamentary one.
Some commentators have warned that a presidential system could weaken democracy in Turkey.
But Mr Duhalde has now announced sweeping constitutional changes, which include replacing the current presidential system with a parliamentary democracy.
The biggest issue is political: should Afghanistan have a parliamentary or, as the draft now has it, a centralised presidential system?
The plan to scrap the Philippines' American-style presidential system, and replace it with a parliamentary one, could provide Mrs Arroyo with a face-saving exit.
"Two or three years ago, I could see the merit of having a strong presidential system because we still were going through the recovery phase, " he says.
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.
"Instead he will try to become a president who can maintain his party affiliation, or will try to change the system into a presidential or semi-presidential system, " he wrote.
While the prime ministership is largely ceremonial, the pact also requires Kim Dae Jung to move toward the realization of Kim Jong Pil's pet project: a change from the current presidential system to a cabinet-styled parliamentary government.
Thus we have the powers of a presidential type system with the automatic majority of a Parliamentary system.
Ukraine's constitution provides for a presidential political system, but successive legislation has transferred many powers to the prime minister and parliament.
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.
It endorses a presidential and parliamentary system in which power is not concentrated in the hands of one person.
Mr Ivanishvili claims that Georgia's constitutional change from a presidential to a parliamentary system is a strong hint that Mr Saakashvili wants to stay in power as prime minister.
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Geoff Gallop, a Labor delegate from Western Australia, put his argument for the system of direct presidential election in terms that appealed to the public.
These U.S. attorneys were dismissed in the middle of the presidential term after an evaluation system was designed that essentially ranked people based on their loyalty to the president, not adherent to the rule of law.
Since Indonesia's political system is nominally presidential, though in practice a bit of a hybrid, parliament is using the language of impeachment to dump Mr Wahid in what is in some ways closer to a vote of no confidence.
The men and women Elmendorf who play a vital role in the air defense of our nation and, if necessary, in the projection of dominant aerospace power overseas understandably wanted to have as the backdrop for an important presidential address their best weapon system, the F-22 Raptor.
Although the U.S. Congress is likely to impose a cap-and-trade system after the presidential election later this year, proposed legislation by U.S. senators Joseph Lieberman and John Warner would limit the value of foreign credits by allowing U.S. companies to use them to cover only 15% of their emissions.
It was called to protest at the conduct of parliamentary elections on 4 December, which were seen as a test of the electoral system ahead of a presidential election in March that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is contesting.
Opposition parties have been pressing to change the system, demanding multi-presidential elections.
The new system reduces the number of presidential appointees to 69.
No one knows what the impact of the new system will be in a presidential race, but in the 1998 elections for congressional seats and state offices one effect was to favour more moderate candidates.
So one option under consideration by the president's men is to cancel the primary, and use an alternative system, whereby parties run several presidential candidates, with the two who collect most votes facing a run-off.
Newt Gingrich, one of the leading US Republican presidential candidates, has said Virginia's electoral system is flawed, after failing to qualify for the primary ballot in his home state.
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