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The Greek Constitutional amendment of 1986 was proposed in order to limit the powers of the President of the Republic.[1] Although the president had been vested with considerable powers under the 1975 Constitution, in practice Greek presidents largely took a ceremonial role. The responsibilities of the President of the Republic were the target of the revisionary proceedings of 1985-1986.
On 6 March 1986, pursuant to article 110 of the Constitution, which stipulates that the provisions of the Constitution are subject to revision except for those which determine the form of government as a Parliamentary Republic as well as certain other provisions, eleven articles were amended and a vote was passed transposing the text of the Constitution into demotic Greek.
Through this revision, the responsibilities of the President of the Republic were curtailed to a significant extent--codifying actual practices dating from the end of military rule in 1974. Despite the political and constitutional crisis, the revised Constitution of 1975/1986, which introduced a majoritarian parliamentary governmental system, was accepted by all political powers only after the polarized 1985 Greek parliamentary election.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Grigoriadis, Ioannis N. (2018), "The Rising Tide of Populist Majoritarianism in Greece", Democratic Transition and the Rise of Populist Majoritarianism, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 41–52, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-57556-8_4, ISBN 978-3-319-57555-1, retrieved 2023-09-13
- ^ Grigoriadis, Ioannis N., ed. (2017). Democratic transition and the rise of Populist Majoritarianism: Constitutional Reform in Greece and Turkey. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 41–45. ISBN 9783319575551.