See article.Venezuela's National Assembly passed a law allowing the president, Nicolás Maduro, to rule by decree until the end of 2015.
After widespread protests, the government promised not to implement the decree until it had been reviewed by a committee.
"We asked the judge to hold off on executing the police consent decree until the price tag of the prison consent decree is clear," Mr. Landrieu said.
René Préval, the president then (and again from 2006 until this year) dissolved parliament in January 1999 and ruled by decree until elections the next year.
President Poincaré has now extended the prohibition by decree until a Bill can be passed through Parliament in the coming session which will make it permanent.
Egypt's interim prime minister moved swiftly to try to defuse the growing split between demonstrators and army chiefs, who are effectively running the country by decree until elections are held later this year.
In extolling the potential of such an arrangement, Mr. Perez cited the example of the Los Angeles Police Department, which was under a consent decree until last year, saying that crime was down and public confidence in the police had been in large part restored, according to surveys.
That prompted the president to say that he might use his constitutional power to dissolve Congress, which would allow him to govern by decree until a fresh election is held, although he has withdrawn the threat for now.The opposition now fears a witch-hunt.
Simmering tensions between revolutionaries and the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, a military body that has in effect been ruling Egypt by decree until elections are held later this year, bubbled over last week when military police stormed a rally in Tahrir Square, killing two civilians.
This study concerns the function of the Decree until July 2009.
