Amendments
As of 2012, there have been 19 amendments to the constitution. A number, such as the Eighth of 1985, which changed the government from a parliamentary system to a semi-presidential system, served to expand the powers of the executive at the expense of parliament and the courts. The Eighteenth passed in 2010, was the first to reduce presidential powers, returning the government to a parliamentary republic and also defining any attempt to subvert, abrogate, or suspend the constitution as an act of high treason.
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