On March 5th his cabinet approved a decree to allow the candidates to run after all.
Dr. Allawi later announced that his government had approved a decree restoring the death penalty.
After two high-profile killings this week, legislators approved a decree late Wednesday banning motorcyclists from riding with passengers.
His cabinet approved a decree which, had it been countersigned by President Giorgio Napolitano, would have forced Ms Englaro's doctors to continue treatment.Why?
Ms. Sáenz de Santamaría said the changes, which the government approved by decree, will nonetheless be discussed in Parliament, where the government holds a majority.
After a Romanian migrant killed an Italian woman in Rome, Romano Prodi's government approved a decree to make it easier to expel EU citizens who are deemed a threat to public security.
Avvenire, the official newspaper of the Italian Catholic bishops conference, said on its website that Pope Francis had earlier on Thursday approved a decree recognising a miracle attributed to her intercession with God.
Boschi has said she did not attend a critical meeting that approved the decree to rescue the bank, but the conservative newspaper Libero has claimed she attended a different meeting where the apparent loophole was agreed.
In Baghdad, Dr. Allawi's aides later announced that the government had approved a decree restoring the death penalty for a range of crimes, including some so broadly phrased that they appeared to cover virtually every kind of insurgent attack.
Last year, the Vatican recognized Pius's "heroic virtues," an important step toward sainthood, but Benedict has not yet approved the decree that would move the process to the next step, in which Pius's miracles would be debated.
It approved the decree Sacrosancta of the council, which asserted the supremacy of a council over the pope, and established the "liberties" of the Gallican Church, restricting the rights of the pope and in many cases making his jurisdiction subject to the will of the king.
