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Presidential powers remain

    JOHANNESBURG

    Constitutional amendments aimed at curbing the power of the presidency collapsed this week, news reports said. Four years of work to introduce a semi-presidential system were scuppered when the main opposition party Renamo refused to cast their votes ensuring that the amendments failed to obtain the necessary two-thirds parliamentary majority. Under the system proposed, the posts of president and head of state were to be separated, and the powers of the prime minister and parliament increased. Renamo had initially urged the reforms after it lost the 1994 elections. Fresh elections are due in December.

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