Highlights of the week
- Published: 17 Aug 2012 at 12.40
- Online news: Local News
The power struggle in the Senate ended with the elected members putting their candidate in the speaker's seat, while in the House the government was grilled by the Democrats over a lack of transparency and corruption in the spending of funds for mega-projects such as the rice pledging scheme and flood rehabilitation programme, and in the far South the violence continued unabated.
On the surface of it, the election of the new senate speaker on Tuesday appeared to be just another election. But at a deeper level, it was clearly a power struggle between the elected senators and non-elected senators.
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