41. Outgoing President Zhelyu Zhelev said Bulgaria should give the president much more power, rather than relying on a parliamentary system with a prime minister and a weak president. 42. Opposition parties and constitutional experts said it was an abuse of the parliamentary system and demanded a new inquiry. 43. Particularly important for him, he said, was the model of an English gentleman and the democracy and freedom embodied in the British parliamentary system. 44. A newly elected opposition senator said Tuesday she opposes shifting to a parliamentary system as has been proposed by several key political leaders. 45. A parliamentary system of government is adopted later, and Bhutto becomes prime minister. 46. Angara made no mention of calls for shifting from the current, U.S.-style of government to a parliamentary system. 47. Camouflaged Revisions What undoubtedly will be a major issue is a shift from a presidential to a parliamentary system. 48. Claiming it would bring political stability to the country, Demirel has been lobbying for major constitutional reform that would change the parliamentary system to a presidential system. 49. Communism was banned and an array of bickering political parties were remolded to fit a tightly controlled and largely symbolic parliamentary system that remained subservient to the presidency. 50. De Venecia, a known advocate of the parliamentary system, allegedly committed to Ramos to work for the shift to parliamentary government once elected into office. |