Lost an election? Just have the lame duck legislature vote a measure saying you can do anything you want.
[El Universal] Vice President ElÃas Jaua announced that the draft Enabling Law submitted to the National Assembly will be effective for 12 months and will allow President Hugo Chavez to have special decree powers to address the emergency caused by heavy rains in Venezuela.
The Venezuelan Vice President said that after the expected approval of the draft Enabling Law, "the first decree-laws will be passed in 15 days."
"The President has requested (special decree powers) for 12 months in order to create a package of laws required to address a serious crisis, which is mainly the result of structural causes that still keep Venezuelan people trapped in poverty. Natural phenomena occurred in the last decade due to the global climate change have worsened this crisis," Jaua said. |