NewsWhore
02-06-2007, 06:20 PM
Former President Hipolito Mejia and President Leonel Fernandez held a meeting at the Presidential Palace last Thursday. The meeting was arranged by Monsignor Agripino Nunez Collado, coordinator of the constitutional reform debates. Diario Libre speculates that President Fernandez was seeking to gain Mejia's support for the constitutional reform bill that is to be presented to Congress. The newspaper's sources say that the former President said that he could not make any promises about the reform but would support the decision his party takes.
Meanwhile, the Que se Dice column in Hoy wonders why President Fernandez has not given legislators a more active role in the constitutional reform debates, instead of leaving them the task of approving what is submitted.
Recently, Congress, which has a PLD majority, approved the budget and fiscal reform bills sent by the President with only minor changes after the President accepted increases to the legislators' own remuneration plans.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#1)
Meanwhile, the Que se Dice column in Hoy wonders why President Fernandez has not given legislators a more active role in the constitutional reform debates, instead of leaving them the task of approving what is submitted.
Recently, Congress, which has a PLD majority, approved the budget and fiscal reform bills sent by the President with only minor changes after the President accepted increases to the legislators' own remuneration plans.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#1)