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09-19-2008, 05:20 PM
President Leonel Fernandez presented his long-awaited comprehensive proposal for constitutional reform to the Senate yesterday, with 122 articles revised. The President is suggesting a reform that would allow him to return to the Presidency. He proposes that a President could opt for a third term in office after serving two consecutive terms, but only with at least a four-year break in between. Another proposed change establishes that legislators and city government officials elected in 2010 would only serve a two-year term, so that the following congressional and municipal elections could be held in the same year as the presidential election.
Institutionalism and Justice Foundation (FINJUS) president Servio Tulio Castanos Guzman recommended that the re-election issue should be left for last in the debates on the proposal.
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