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01-12-2009, 04:50 PM
President Leonel Fernandez summoned a special session of Congress from 14 January to 25 February to study the major reforms he is proposing for the Constitution. The discussions are expected to take up most of legislators' time. Constitutional reform talks have been under way for the last three years, and the 2009 undertaking would be the broadest in 40 years. Fernandez is proposing that the Constitution should include 273 articles, up from the current 122. There have been some concerns that the continued revisions weaken the Constitution, while others would have preferred specialists to reform the Constitution, instead of leaving it up to the legislators. The ruling PLD party is majority in Congress.

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