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  • Morsi declares expanded powers, bans breakup of assembly penning constitution

    11/22/2012 1:50:57 PM PST · by Founding Father · 10 replies
    RT ^ | 22 November, 2012
    Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi made several decrees Thursday that will shape the country’s constitution and, he says, safeguard its “revolutionary” future. They include a ruling that none of his decisions can be overturned by any authority. Morsi gave the Constituent Assembly a two month deadline to finish drafting a new constitution, ruling that no authority may dissolve it until the country's defining document is completed. He further ruled that no authority may dissolve the Shura Council, the upper house of Egypt's parliament. In a move likely to bring criticism that the Egyptian president is inappropriately expanding his powers, he also...
  • Leftist Protestors in Ecuador Force Evacuation of National Legislature (Translation & Photos)

    01/30/2007 5:16:41 PM PST · by StJacques · 18 replies · 386+ views
    Diario Hoy ( Quito ) ^ | January 30, 2007 | staff ( translated by self )
    VIOLENCE IN PROTESTS SUPPORTING A CONSTITUTIONAL ASSEMBLY Deputies evacuate the Congress amid insults and gas The police pushed back hundreds of protestors from the zone bordering the National Congress Tuesday January 30th, after confrontations occurred between the police and protesters who demanded the restoration of a Constituent Assembly. A contingent of police with anti-disturbance armored vehicles and material pushed back the protestors who surrounded the building and broke up violent groups. The Congress had begun its session to debate the documentation remitted by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) on the calling of the popular consultation for the Constituent Assembly, which...