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far, no president has had any kind of immediate subnational ambition after his tenure,
with the exception of Carlos Menem in 2007, eight years after leaving the presidency.
Second, in a clear difference with the aforementioned case of Honduras analyses by
Taylor-Robinson and Diaz (1999), legislative submission does not involve the core of the
budgetary resources. Instead, presidents and their ministers can allocate funds through
other administrative channels. Hence, why should I look at non-public presidential bills
for this project?

After debugging the sample, I maintained the remaining 117.249 national bills,
declarations and resolutions submitted by legislators in the period. It is noteworthy to
mention that 33.661 bills (a 28.7%) have some kind of territorial target. Consistent with
the expectations mentioned in Chapter 3, declarations and resolutions have a much
higher proportion of territorial targets. As it can be read in Table 4.1, just a 15% of
national bills involve any kind of provincial or municipal reference. In contrast,
resolutions target twice as much (almost a 30%), while four of each declarations makes
an allusion to subnational units.

Table 4.1: Percentage of Bills with a territorial Target - By Type of Bill

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