Venezuela’s Legislature Approves Emergency Sessions for “Mother of Laws”
[From SolidarityEconomy.net editors: While there’s been plenty of coverage of Chavez’s ‘ruling by decree,’ little has been said about the matters concerned and how its part of his country’s legal system. It also gives an idea of how something like ‘Economic Democracy’ might be brought into being in other countries as well.]
By Venezuelanalysis.com, Caracas, January 17, 2007
Venezuela’s National Assembly approved a resolution yesterday, according to which the legislature would declare emergency sessions for the approval of an “enabling law,” which will allow President Chavez to pass law-decrees on specific issues in the next 18 months. The National Assembly (AN) will begin deliberations on the law tomorrow. (more…)
