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Religions > Atheism |
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"maff" |
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26 Oct 2004 04:01:12 AM |
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OT: Turkmenistan |
Turkmen president takes job for life
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/story.jsp?story=576044
By Anne Penketh, Diplomatic Editor
26 October 2004
Central Asia's most idiosyncratic dictator has engineered a plan that
will allow him to remain in office for the rest of his life by
dispensing with a further presidential election.
In the past, Turkmenistan's President Saparmurat Niyazov's decrees
have outlawed gold teeth and renamed the calendar so that the first
month of the year bears his official title, Turkmenbashi, or head of
the Turkmens. Yesterday, he asked parliament disingenuously to hold
presidential elections in 2009, saying "When I turn 70, please release
me. Younger people will be ready. Nothing lasts for ever and the
destiny of a people must not depend on one person."
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