1.   At present, the president has the constitutional power to dismiss an elected government for large scale misdemeanours.

2.   But since December, when army enlisted men overthrew the elected government and installed Gen.

3.   By restricting the power of the elected government, the president hopes to prevent problems from erupting into full-blown crises.

4.   Currently, assistance can only be resumed when the president certifies that country has returned to a democratically elected government.

5.   Each democratically elected government has lasted a couple of months longer than its predecessor.

6.   Elected governments and administrative elites are passive functionaries who simply facilitate the bargains struck by the functional elites.

7.   He and his supporters stormed parliament in May and toppled the elected government.

8.   He then handed power to an elected government, but it failed to stop the economic Decline.

9.   It was the first time a democratically elected government had been in power.

10.   Nobody now supposes that political processes begin and end with elections, or that elected governments have a monopoly of political power.