The Senate of the Republic approved this Wednesday a new contract for loan for 60 million dollars which aims to strengthen the agricultural sector with a technological and sustainable approach called a support and financing plan for small and medium-sized producers through the Ministry of Agriculture.
The piece received 19 yeses and 8 noes from the 27 congressmen present.
The loan with the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) has already been endorsed by the Chamber of Deputies.
Discussions between opposition and pro-government supporters
The spokesman for the senators of the Fuerza del Pueblo party, Dionis Sanchez, He said: “They want to do everything with loans, they don’t know how to do anything other than borrow”
He argued that the loan sanctioned in favor of the Executive powerThat money will not really go to the Ministry of Agriculture, since about 700 million pesos are being taken from the 2023 general state budget.
Sánchez considered that the PRM has abandoned the field.
“They have taken more than 21 billion dollars in what they have been managing,” the representative of Pedernales told the government.
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Likewise, the spokesman for the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), Yván Lorenzo, said that this money is to be used “in the re-election campaign.”
On his side, Ginnette Bournigal, senator of the Modern Revolutionary Party for Puerto Plata, defended the loan and promised to follow up on the investment made with these resources.
Similarly, the Perreme senator for Sánchez Ramírez, Ricardo de los Santos, considered that before the opponents defended the loans, but now they repudiate them.
He said that the government acts transparently.
