Estonia nixes poll for president

Nov 04, 1999
By Brooke Donald

TALLINN - Parliament voted down a Center Party-sponsored bill last week that called for direct presidential elections, following the advice of the constitutional committee.The constitution deserves to be treated as a whole document, the committee said, whereas this bill would introduce amending the constitution piece-by-piece."We are discussing amendments of the constitution in more general terms," committee chairwoman Liia Hanni said. "The election mechanism cannot be separated and discussed ap ...

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