It requires fresh elections, early next year, for a new, single-chamber Congress, so Mr Chavez (whose rule may be ratified by referendum) will doubtless gain the legislative majority he lacks.
It effectively created two 'Home Rule' states by partitioning Ireland into the six counties of Protestant majority in the north east - Northern Ireland - and the rest of Ireland - Southern Ireland.
Indeed, in Jaffna, TNA leaflets claimed that to vote for the ruling coalition would be to subject the peninsula to ruleby Sri Lanka's mainly-Buddhist Sinhala majority.
Our correspondent says he sought to protect his Christian community's position within the Muslim majorityby striking a conservative tone and lending tacit support to President Mubarak's rule.