At the end of the session, Mr. Chávez's party, which holds a large majority in the Legislature, used a show of hands to register support for the vice president's request to postpone the swearing-in.
There are currently around 20,000 people who have chosen to register support without becoming full party members.
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Priorities identified at the first meeting included the need for national retinopathy screening, improvement of podiatry services, a national diabetic register, support for patient education, a national model of care, and agreed guidelines for management.
Several other agencies — including, notably, the Office of the Vice-President — formally registered support for the State Department's number.
They also registered support for expanding the war to other countries where terrorists may be hiding, like Iraq, Somalia and the Philippines -- even if those countries refuse to assist.
The poll also showed that in the Democratic primary for city comptroller, Eliot Spitzer, the former governor, held a commanding lead over Scott M. Stringer, the Manhattan borough president; Mr. Spitzer registered support from 54 percent of likely Democratic voters, with Mr. Stringer at 36 percent.
The recall vote, set for Sept. 10, could hardly be more important as a barometer of whether the public, which repeatedly registers support for tougher gun controls in surveys, will show up at the ballot to defend politicians who bucked the gun lobby.
Many business leaders, universities, colleges and MPs in Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex have already registered support on a campaign website.
"For the Conservative Party to suddenly be registering support for Manston Airport during an election campaign is a bit like a late April Fool's Day joke, " a UKIP spokeswoman said.
After a month of bad headlines about Murdoch, the budget and the return of the economy to recession, an opinion poll registered support for his Conservative Party at its lowest since 2004.
