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Weekly Report - 23 January 2014 (WR-14-03)
HONDURAS: Libre fails to shoot down PN-PL in congress
Newly elected deputies for former president Manuel Zelaya’s left-wing Libertad y Refundación (Libre) caused US$78,000 worth of damages in their first day in congress (on 22 January), after they smashed desks and microphones and destroyed the computerised voting system, according to Francisco Rivera, president of the congressional budget commission. Rivera added that the electronic voting system, worth US$1.3m, had been a donation from the government of Taiwan, one the country’s closest international allies and cooperation partners.
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