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Article: RUSSIA: TUVA - GIVING PRESIDENT NEW POWERS.(Brief Article)
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- May 14, 2001
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According to the website polit.ru, the new constitution changes the status of the president to the head of the government and creates a new two-chamber parliament. Under the old system, some 32 deputies worked in the Verkhovnii Khural while 250 worked in the Velikii Khural. Now, there will be only 162 deputies, of whom some 32 will work on a full-time basis, according to Interfax-Eurasia. The newly created position of head of the government will have wider powers in comparison with the old post of president. For example, he can now independently nominate members of the cabinet of ministers ...