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Latin America

joshcryer

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3. The 180 day thing is procedural.

Reply to Bacchus4.0 (Reply #1)

Sun Jan 13, 2013, 06:10 PM

Jan 2013

Last edited Sun Jan 13, 2013, 07:14 PM - Edit history (1)

It can be implied from the constitution.

In any event this is what I said would happen in another thread where I was bashed relentlessly by the more nasty posters here. So I guess PP agrees with my analysis.

edit: of course, if this does go over the 180 day time line (which is basically what the TSJ ordered), I'm sure the goalposts will be moved yet again.

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