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    President cannot run for third term - Armenian speaker

    Arminfo
    14 Jul 05


    YEREVAN

    "I am a lawyer and do not see any grounds for any talk about the
    possibility of re-electing the president for a third term in office as
    the constitution makes it clear that nobody can run for the presidency
    more than twice," Armenian Speaker Artur Bagdasaryan told reporters
    today.

    He said that the relevant article of the constitution contains
    comprehensive comments and cannot cause a difference of opinion. As
    for the possibility that the president will be granted the right to be
    elected for a third term in office after the approval of the new
    constitution, the speaker regards as indisputable the idea under which
    the draft amendments to the current constitution cannot be considered
    as a new constitution.

    At the same time, he said it would be fair if the incumbent president
    preserved until 2008 his powers which will be reduced under the
    constitutional reforms. "The president should exercise the powers with
    which he was elected," Bagdasaryan said. He also said that the
    parliament will get new powers after the approval of the
    constitutional reforms.
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