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by D. L. Ubeywarna The current political dissension in the country postulates an impending
threat to the supremacy of parliament again, since the President is
empowered by Article 70 (1) (a) of the constitution to dissolve
parliament, with alacrity, at any time at the expiry of one year from the
date of the last general election.Every time a government not of the
political party to which the President belongs gets elected, the supremacy
of parliament is at stake. The life of parliament became vulnerable to her
decision & she dissolved her own government, not long before, but last
year. The dissolution procedure embodied in Article 99 of the 1972
Constitution gave no such authority to the (then) president and it was
consistent with the supremacy of parliament.
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