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Weekly Report - 06 February 2014 (WR-14-05)
NICARAGUA: Constitutional changes approved
President Daniel Ortega’s proposed constitutional reform package has received the definitive green light. Last week the 92-member unicameral legislature, which is controlled by Ortega’s Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN), approved a second reading of the bill, meaning that it takes effect as soon as Ortega signs it into law. The amendments to the 1987 constitution, which scrap the ban on indefinite presidential re-election and enhance the role of the military, were swiftly followed by the approval of changes to the military code.
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