From the very beginning, then, the pro-democracy forces saw their task as twofold: mitigating the injustices the dictatorship had left and reducing the authoritarian aspects of the constitution. That first elected government proposed and won overwhelming approval of fifty-four amendments, among them one to eliminate the requirement that supermajorities of two successive sessions of the congress must approve any future constitutional amendments. Yet the skewed electoral system still remains in place, with its provision effectively granting the one-third minority of right-wing voters the same
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