31.   Failing that, the president can dissolve parliament and call elections within two months.

32.   The president also dissolved the parliament, calling fresh elections.

33.   The president could then dissolve parliament if it rejected government-proposed plans or failed to approve a proposed budget within three months.

34.   Under the new constitution, parliament cannot unseat the government or force the head of state to stand down, but the president cannot dissolve parliament either.

35.   Under the constitution, the president can dissolve the lower house if it fails to adopt the budget within three months -- and that deadline technically expires on Saturday.

36.   The amendments also seek to allow the president to dissolve the lower house of parliament.

37.   The Bhutto government was dismissed two weeks ago, under a controversial constitutional amendment that allows the president to dissolve parliament and sack the prime minister.

38.   The franc also suffered from a proposal by Michel Vauzell, close to president Francois Mitterrand, that the president should dissolve the National Assembly.

39.   The president dissolved the national assembly in December after repeatedly failing to bring the MLSTP into the government.