It traced its legitimacy through constitutional succession to the last Estonian government in power prior to the Soviet invasion of 1940.

Given that history, stability and a constitutional succession are desired even by Mr. Suharto's harshest critics.

The National Guard was later established in the naive hope that a local constabulary could guarantee constitutional succession of government.

With regard to the possibilities of negotiating with the outside world and to the conservation of internal unity, a legal and constitutional succession would be indispensable.

The constitutional succession has a direct impact on donor funding in Malawi.

Haskell's brief term of Governor was the result of constitutional succession in the wake of the 1952 elections.

Cross, as President of the Senate became Governor through constitutional succession.

His second son Jaime had been forced to renounce his rights to the constitutional succession in 1933.

The president may not run for re-election unless he or she had become president through constitutional succession and had served for no more than four years.

Still, many people in Honduras, including most of the country's official institutions, claimed that there was a constitutional succession of power.