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								On Wednesday night, at the urging of Walter Veltroni, the Mayor of Rome and leader of a new centrist party, the Democratic Party, that provision was extracted from the law, quickly redrafted as a "decree-law", a sort of diktat, and signed by the President overnight. Archive 2007-11-01 Helen 2007 
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								On Wednesday night, at the urging of Walter Veltroni, the Mayor of Rome and leader of a new centrist party, the Democratic Party, that provision was extracted from the law, quickly redrafted as a "decree-law", a sort of diktat, and signed by the President overnight. A blue nettle with yellow stars Richard 2007 
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								"The government believes that we have to organise a big national debate on three themes: the legitimacy of power, constitutional proposals and the decree-law on political parties." 
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								It is a Council of State decree-law regarding the confiscation of ill-gotten wealth. [applause]. 
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								That decree-law has already been drafted and is being distributed to the members of the Council of State. 
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								Over 10 years ago, we passed a decree-law referring to the possibility of cooperation through joint ventures. 
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								In order to recover and strengthen labor discipline, a decree-law was issued granting authority to administrations to impose and apply disciplinary actions. 
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								Another decree-law was issued concerning the responsibility and discipline of leaders and officials. 
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								But even before the final draft is brought up for your consideration, a decree-law has been studied which provides certain types of punishments to facilitate the fight against crime in our institutions in the interior of the republic. 
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								Does this mean that we can simply wipe out a decree-law which they were able to obtain on that bloody 13 March? 
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