The Listin Diario gives big front-page headlines to the government announcement that it will present a new bill for constitutional reform. Guido Gomez Mazara, legal adviser to the Executive Branch made the announcement. He said that the government has plans to create a commission of legal experts to draw up the proposal. Meanwhile, the Senate announced that it will reintroduce on this coming Tuesday an earlier bill that had met with widespread rejection from the civic society and even by Hatuey de Camps, president of the government party. A recent poll showed that the generality of the population does not oppose reforming the Constitution but considers the action untimely. There is concern the congressmen want to slip in an extension of their terms that are up in August 2002. On the matter, President Mejia told the press: "I will not intervene in that." The President has said several times that he will not be up for re-election and that his term ends in 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Listin Diario gives big front-page headlines to the government announcement that it will present a new bill for constitutional reform. Guido Gomez Mazara, legal adviser to the Executive Branch made the announcement. He said that the government has plans to create a commission of legal experts to draw up the proposal. Meanwhile, the Senate … <\/p>\n