He also kept parts of the emergency regulations in force.
"We came very close to making emergency regulations last May," he said.
The current state of emergency regulations imposed by the Government have now been in effect for more than a year.
City officials said the new emergency regulations would not apply to their projects.
New York's emergency regulations, announced a couple of weeks ago, will take effect immediately and remain in force for 60 days.
The emergency regulations decreed that we should walk two on each side of the road.
Some of them have been held without trials since the emergency regulations were imposed in June 1986.
The decree was issued under the Government's 10-month-old state of emergency regulations.
I think there will be a need to continue that (emergency regulation).
The emergency regulations give him a month before he has to seek a vote of confidence from the legislature.
