The president of the bicameral commission that studies the Extinction Law, Pedro Catrain, announced this morning that the legislators of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) will approve the initiative in both chambers, because it is an ordinary law and can be endorsed with a simple majority. .
He reported that today at 4:00 in the afternoon the commission he chairs will have a favorable report ready so that the piece can be approved by both the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies.
He revealed that he recently spoke with President Luis Abinader and that the president suggested that if they wanted them to include the issue of tax avoidance as the senators of the Dominican Liberation Party have requested, because he has nothing to hide.
He assured that the PRM has the necessary majority in both chambers to approve the controversial piece.
In the case of the Senate, the ruling party has 18 representatives, while in the Lower House it has 93, plus the allies, which brings it to 101 deputies. “Today at 4:00 in the afternoon the bicameral commission that studies the piece will meet and I can assure you that we will have a favorable report so that the project is approved in the National Congress,” Catrain said when interviewed on the El Sol program. in the morning.
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He added that “this is an ordinary law, the organic laws, the Constitution says, are those that deal with fundamental rights and this law does not deal with fundamental rights, but with illicit and ill-gotten goods, that is the scope and nature of the law , so that it does not collide with any fundamental right and we are going to approve it with a simple majority”.
He explained that the bicameral commission studying the project has had advice from the World Bank and the United Nations. He also reported that they have the support of the National Council of Private Enterprise (Conep) and the Association of Young Entrepreneurs (ANJE), and that the Institutional and Justice Foundation agrees with it.
“The only objection we have had is from the Association of Commercial Banks and we have already incorporated it,” said the PRM representative for the Samaná province.
Perremeistas and PLD supporters accuse each other of boycotting the approval of the initiative, supposedly because they fear assets acquired in a questionable manner will be seized.
