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The laws it referred to give police sweeping new powers and change electoral regulations governing voter registration.

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Republican leaders added to the turmoil Friday morning, seizing on news of spiraling unemployment to warn that new taxes and regulations including in the sweeping reform measure would push the country into an economic abyss.

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