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Presidential Powers !!

  • 28-01-2011 11:59am
    #1
    tiny timy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 531 ✭✭✭


    Just curious on this one.

    When Cowen goes to meet the president to dissolve. Can she turn around and say there's to be no general election until this mess is behind us and make all parties merge into one and bang heads until we have ourselves back on track.
    Or like i'm thinking would it all just bring the whole thing to a stopping point with one Minister being as stubborn as the next, agreeing on nothing and going nowhere.


Comments

  • #2
    mayotom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 742 ✭✭✭mayotom


    No she can't...

    the president has very little power really


  • #3
    d'Oracle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,025 ✭✭✭d'Oracle


    No.

    She does not have powers to do that.
    Plus I seriously doubt that the Dail could possibly get anything done by consensus.


  • #4
    imp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 895 ✭✭✭imp


    She can refuse a dissolution if the Taoiseach has lost the confidence of the Dáil. There was some controversy when Haughey and his TDs tried to lobby President Hillary to do refuse a dissolution (the refusal would have meant Haughey could form a government without an election), as it's one of the few powers that the president has absolute discretion over. President Robinson said she would have refused to dissolve the Dáil if Albert Reynolds had requested a dissolution.

    Oh it's in Article 13, Section 2, Paragraph 2 of the Constitution by the way.

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