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07-09-2008, 03:10 PM
Leaders of the PRD and PRSC parties were in agreement with spokespersons from the Citizen Participation group about the proposal from the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Julio Cesar Valentin, who argued for a Constitutional Amendment that would freeze the number of members in Congress to 150, and combine the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies into a House of Representatives single legislative body. When Hoy reporters asked Orlando Jorge Mera of the PRD and Ramon Rogelio Genao of the PRSC, both politicians were in agreement with the proposal. So were the vice-president of the Justice and Institutionalism Foundation (FINJUS) Servio Tulio Castanos Guzman and the executive director of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), Francisco Cueto and Citizen Participation's Javier Cabrera. Cueto also favored the idea of reducing the legislature to just one chamber, an idea that was rejected by the PRD and the PRSC.
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