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Managua - Liberals within the Nicaraguan
National Assembly are insisting on hindering
the work of the current legislative period,
according to experts.
After the honeymoon period between liberals
and Sandinista Front members, during which
the government put forward important social
programs in the legislature, the situation
changed in mid 2008, and a day in which
there is quorum has become something
unusual.
Political analysts, as historian Aldo Diaz
Lacayo, believe that the opposition is
agitated, due to the progress made by the
government with its programs.
The issue of fraud in the municipal
elections is a well-tried argument, used by
the opposition to hinder the legislators'
work, parliamentary sources said.
However, another technique came to light the
past week at the hall where those called
fathers of the homeland meet.
National Assembly chair, Sandinista Front
member Rene Nuñez was not able to summon the
session to approve the board of directors of
the Produzcamos Bank, which should grant
around $50 million to the medium and small
producers in the next agricultural cycle.
Liberals took a group of Managua's carnival
to the hall, causing that the assembly
members scattered.
Thus, the Assembly leadership expects to
call its members to another meeting. If it
is held or not would depend on the liberals'
willingness to have quorum, which is
achieved with 47 of 92 parliament members. |
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