CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2008
| Author | Alkhader, Mohammed Fawzi |
|---|---|
| Title | The Presidential Powers in Palestine: A Scheme for Potential Deadlocks, or Quasi Monarch Regime |
| Summary | In the French constitutional context, it appeared it is possible to have heterogeneous layers of government; the President who is directly elected by public suffrage, and the Prime Minister who is supported by the President’s opposition majority in the Parliament. Notwithstanding that this situation is undesirable, but it seems that it is adhered to the semi presidential type of government. Indeed, the real danger of this system has been experienced in many countries where this system was adopted. In the Palestinian case, since 2003 the first test for this system was subtly experienced when each the President and the Prime Minister has his own political agenda. This difference resulted in shortening the life of the Government to six months. During this period the ramification of adopting such a system slightly appeared but its future potential dangers were underestimated. The second crisis in 2006 was immense enough to restore the authoritarian state of affairs in which the constitutional design for the separation of powers failed to confine for the second time the President from being the sole source of powers; there is no Parliament and both the Government and the Judiciary are under the control of the President and their loyalty to the President is the guarantee for their existence. The open question in this place, weather the current situation is alarming enough to bring the attention to review the constitutional arrangements and the deficiency of the current system or it is the quasi monarch system based on the hidden inherited legal and political power will continue to govern in the coming future. |
| Supervisor | Uitz, Renata |
| Department | Legal Studies LLM |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2008/alkhader_mohammed.pdf |
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