December 2, 2024, 7:19 PM
December 2, 2024, 7:19 PM
The ruling party is in no hurry to deal with the General State Budget Law 2025 and continues with its “socialization”, the president of this commission, Andrés Flores, called the deputies to meet in committee on Wednesday. For the opposition, this delay is on purpose and has the objective of automatically approving the financial law for the following year.
“ANDThe social organizations have been socialized and they will also be socialized tomorrow (Tuesday) to the national bench and later on Wednesday we would already be taking part in the Planning Commission to discuss the General State Budget, it will go , there are no observations“, assured the president of the Planning Commission, Andrés Flores (MAS-arcista wing).
Until December 20, the Assembly must declare the end of the year recess and therefore the Chamber of Deputies and Senators have three weeks to approve this bill that will govern the country’s economic policy in the year of the country’s Bicentennial.
Obviously, The organizations that attended the “socialization” were those related to the Government and there were no observations and they welcomed the document. Likewise, the Arcista bench is convinced that it is the ideal budget, such that observations come from other sectors.
Representative Flores does not take into account that the municipalities, governorates, as well as productive and union sectors They rejected the content of the document. The municipalities felt the budget cut, as did the governorates and called their parliamentarians to take action.
In the case of the producers, this Monday a meeting took place in Santa Cruz, together with the parliamentary brigade. At that meeting, the PGE 2025 was rejected due to its seventh additional provision that orders the confiscation of products from the family basket if they discover concealment of products.
“This is alarming, we want to tell the Bolivian people that through the General State Budget They are wanting to introduce an article that threatens food and threatens not only the region“, attentive to the entire country, that is why we make a call and we are also present,” said the president of the Santa Cruz parliamentary brigade, Laura Rojas, and announced that the Santa Cruz brigade will not allow the approval of at least this article. .
For deputy Alejandro Reyes, the Government has the clear intention of approving the project automatically, that is, by meeting deadlines. The Budget Law is the only law that can be approved without debatesince the Political Constitution of the State gives a period of 60 days to the Assembly (that period began to run on November 1) so that it can be approved; If the Assembly does not comply, on January 1 this project acquires the force of Law and is put into effect without the participation of Parliament.
“The times are not enough, it’s just that Consensus cannot be achieved if those articles that are clearly unnecessary are not removedTherefore, what they are looking for is to repeat what they have done this year with the 2024 Budget, that on January 2 it practically begins to run, to take effect, a budget that is sending us to bankruptcy,” said Reyes.
