The new government led by President Juan Orlando Hernández seems to be looking north to Mexico in setting an ambitious, and fast-paced, agenda for the executive and congress. The national congress president, Mauricio Oliva, presented the legislative agenda for the 2014-2018 period on 6 May. Noting that it was a unified agenda agreed upon over the past few months by the various political parties represented in congress, the most multi-hued ever in Honduras, Oliva said the agenda was based upon four main pillars: security; social wellbeing; the economy; and transparency and anti-corruption, with “a strong degree of consensus” around 25 key legislative proposals.End of preview - This article contains approximately 615 words.
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