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Expert: Ukraine got blurred powers of president and premier upon return to 1996 constitution

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Nov. 27, 2012, 7:14 p.m. | Ukraine — by Interfax-Ukraine

A survey of the Ukrainian Institute for Public Policy entitled "Administrative reform. An assessment of influence," which was presented at the press conference, notes that if the executive branch of government in Ukraine is headed by the prime minister, he should be vested with "all powers needed for him to fulfill his constitutional role."
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Ukraine has to decide who really heads it in order to form an effective system of executive government in the country, Ivan Presniakov, the director of the program "The political process and good governance" at the Ukrainian Institute for Public Policy, has said. 

"Our recommendation lies in the need to decide on who the real head of executive government is," he said at a press conference in Kyiv on Tuesday.

A survey of the Ukrainian Institute for Public Policy entitled "Administrative reform. An assessment of influence," which was presented at the press conference, notes that if the executive branch of government in Ukraine is headed by the prime minister, he should be vested with "all powers needed for him to fulfill his constitutional role."

If the executive branch of government in the country is headed by the president, then "his powers should be in compliance with the formal status, which requires the introduction of amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine," reads the survey.

Presniakov said that Ukraine, after it returned to the constitution of 1996, had received a mix of powers between the president and prime minister. 

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