Experts See Possibility For Yuschenko's Second Term As President With Transition To Parliamentary Republic

Quote: Experts of the Situations Modeling Agency see chances for President Viktor Yuschenko to be elected to the post again with amendments to the Constitution introducing the transition to the parliamentary republic in Ukraine.
Ukrainian News learned this from a statement by the Situations Modeling Agency.
"Viktor Yuschenko may become the head of he state for the second time only in the event of the formalization of the post of the president of Ukraine," Agency Deputy Director Oleksii Holobytskyi has said.
In his opinion, the current attempts by the Secretariat of President Yuschenko to narrow the powers of the prime minister without amendments to the Constitution will have reverse effects.
"Leading political parties are interested in the removal of the destabilizing element in the person of the institute of the president," he said.
In the opinion of Holobutskyi, Yuschenko should be interested in the option of the formalization of the post of the president.
"The functional duties of that sort obviously meet the aspirations of Yuschenko the most," he said.

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