This article explains why Kyrgyzstan switched to parliamentarian form of semipresidential system in 2010 and examines new rules of government formation. An analysis is focused on emergence and functioning of coalition governments of parliamentary majority in 2010–2016, an unique phenomenon in post- Soviet Central Asia republic and rare form of government in the CIS countries. Considering strong and weak points of Kirgizstan’s experience with parliamentary cabinet’s author examines whether the new system of government will survive the accession of the country to the Eurasian Economic Union and the second electoral cycle of 2015–2017. Although the outcome of the parliamentary elections of 2015 has been positive in this respect, the presidential elections of 2017 will provide a crucial challenge for maintaining the constitutional model of 2010 unchanged, as an analysis of political discourse of 2016 suggests. Author reveals the real dilemma of incumbent and draw potential scenarios of future development, including a new revision of fundamental law.
The article discusses how the English periodical press (newsbooks) published between 1641 and 1660, i.e. from the birth of that medium to the Stuart Restoration, presented the Sejm and the parliamentary system of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Primary sources show that English newspapers regularly printed reports on the Sejm. This allowed the English-reading public to follow events and form a general picture of Polish-Lithuanian parliamentarism. However, that picture was very incomplete – the reports focused exclusively on the Sejm in session and did not deal with other elements of the parliamentary system. Similarly, information on the composition of the Sejm and the legislative process was scarce and often vague. At the same time, some of the reports provided readers with very detailed information on specific events or topics, e.g. the end of the deliberations of the first Sejm in 1652. What is also very interesting is that the Sejm was present in the domestic political discourse in England, mostly in connection with the relations between the King and his subjects or the legal status of Parliament.
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