10 April 2010 - severability clause

“The West is poor at installing new democratic governments, but over here we have the experience. After all, we did it only five years ago. But we’re not too proud to learn even more. So when we rewrite the constitution we’ll be adding a severability clause. In the future, when violent overthrow breaks the democratic succession, the constitution will declare that its remaining unviolated provisions continue in effect.”
— Roza Otunbayeva, new self-proclaimed boss of Kyrgyzstan