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Barbara Crossette (NYT) THE AMERICAS VENEZUELA: BROAD POWERS FOR CHAVEZ -- The National Assembly approved sweeping powers for President Hugo Chavez that will allow him to pass legislation by decree in areas from economic and financial affairs to government reform.
On Wednesday, he enacted 29 constitutional amendments that grant him sweeping powers for five years.
Its "new politics", consisting of a partly appointed parliament, sweeping powers for military intervention and, of course, a strong crown, is "Premocracy" redux.The army is a big part of the country's predicament.
He pretends to reform the constitution but makes a mockery of the process by retaining sweeping powers for himself.
Instead, the new legislation will include sweeping powers for the DfE to force schools in "underperforming" local authorities to convert to academy status.
In two pages it outlines sweeping powers for the Treasury secretary to identify banks, hedge funds and insurers that are too big to fail.
Mrs. Megawati was able to smooth the severe divisions in her cabinet last week and, finally, after a marathon cabinet session that ran until midnight last Friday, the government issued two new antiterrorism decrees that provide for sweeping powers of investigation and detention.
Egypt's ruling military council has blamed the Muslim Brotherhood for raising tensions by releasing presidential election results early and insisted its recent decisions that granted the generals sweeping powers were necessary for running the country.
Mr. Milosevic has already been elected to two terms as Serbian president, and when he could not run again under the constitution, he became federal president, taking on sweeping powers not foreseen for this putatively figurehead office.
It has also backed off other demands for sweeping powers to continue military operations there indefinitely.
India's Assam Rifles, a paramilitary force with sweeping powers and a reputation for arbitrary violence and arrest, are less visibly deployed these days across much of the state.
