The senator Stephan Rasmussen (Dear Homeland) mentioned to Universo / Nación Media radio that all alerts are on the bill “That establishes special provisions and financing for the execution and implementation of the Commuter Train in the section between the city of Asunción and the city of Ypacaraí”, which was approved yesterday in the Senate.
He mentioned that there were Spanish, French, German multinationals, among other very important ones, that were interested in the project, however, the Government opted to don’t make one bidding.
“Here there were several black handsThere is no other explanation, I have no proof, but I also have no doubt that this happened elsewhere, it did not happen because they were patriots, much less that it was a bill studied to be approved. Yesterday I said in the session that we were approving a project for a contract that does not exist, that it approves a contract with a consortium that does not exist. It obviously draws a lot of attention. It advances without forecasts like the Metrobus and they all get hurt. The concern is that we enter into a loan commitment, nothing is done and some leave with full pockets, ”he argued.
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In this sense, he said that the Executive Power does not require a law to take out loans and that what was approved yesterday by Congress means that “they are covering their backs to do something out of the norm and then say that the law was authorized.” . “It was all very confusing.”
The legislator described as totally illegal which is being proposed because the concession must be made through a tender, while the proposal states that the State will make a payment for availability of the train, but the contract and the requirements do not yet exist. “A blank check was approved, it was awarded to a private Korean consortium for many years, but there are 10 interested in the train but we tied ourselves to someone we don’t know who he is or how he will do it,” he added.
Rasmussen assured that not even the Executive Power is in favor of the project, but a group of senators who voted in favor of the initiative, arguing that it is necessary to have a train. “It is very dangerous what was done yesterdayr”.
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