November 18, 2024, 10:22 PM
November 18, 2024, 10:22 PM
The General State Budget (PGE) It is the only law that is approved automatically if parliament does not deal and sanction within 60 days. Opposition deputies claim that the Government has already failed to meet deadlines since November 1 of this year because it did not make the bill available to legislators.
“I requested from day 1 Today, November 18, I went to the presidency again and they tell me that they will send it to my email, they did not want to deliver it to me, it is 9:30 p.m. and they did not send anything, the Government is already violating the Constitution,” warned deputy Miguel Roca.
The mandate of the Political Constitution of the State (CPE), in its article 321 establishes that The Executive must send 60 days before the management concludes The budget project and the two legislative chambers have that period of time to enact the Law.
“Once the bill is received, it must be considered in the Plurinational Legislative Assembly within a period of sixty days. If it is not approved within this period, the project will be considered approved.“, points out for his part the article 158 of the Magna Carta.
Roca recalled that in December of last year the Chamber of Deputies discussed the budget and excluded from it at least three articles that They gave excessive powers to the Executive such as the acquisition of credits for $us 700 million without authorization from the Assembly.
He explained that the project passed to the Senate and in that chamber they replaced the controversial articles, in such a way that the project was taken to a plenary session of the Assembly, that is, Deputies and Senators together to define the future of the PGE 2024. In that session, which It was held near the Christmas holidays, there was a brawl between arcistas and evistas and the session was suspended and as time was of the essence, the vice president, David Choquehuanca approved the end of year break and the PGE 2024 was not discussed. In January of this year it acquired the force of law with all the articles that the Government had mandated.
“I say it, You can get away with your trap for now, But when the government changes there will be liability trials for the president and vice president and criminal trials for the ministers because they cannot violate the Constitution on such an issue,” the legislator warned.
