SANTIAGO. The Catholic Church described as “irritating privileges” the economic benefits that Dominican legislators receive through the barrel, the chest and vehicle exemptions and warned that as long as this situation persists, the Nation will not advance, since they delay the development of the country.
In its editorial comment corresponding to the December 1 edition of this year of the national Catholic weekly Camino and which will circulate in all the parishes of the country, the Church says that while the legislators enjoy these privileges, the Dominican population has been enduring shortages for decades. of essential goods for living.
“How to explain that our legislators receive exemptions from high-cost vehicles, that they have the barrel and the little box, distorting their mission to legislate, and using those funds to promote themselves, laying the foundations for future party aspirations, and using the poverty of our people to numb their conscience?” asks the written spokesperson of the Dominican Catholic Church.
And he maintains that if legislators love their country, they must begin to shed those privileges.
“Do not waste time arguing that other sectors have exemptions, start by giving the example of starting a new way of doing politics,” the Camino editorial emphasizes elsewhere.
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He specifies that Dominican legislators forgot what Cardinal Francois Xavier Van Thuan said when he exclaimed: “Blessed is the politician who works for the common good, and not for his own interest.”
It indicates that the country needs the best policy at the service of the true common good.
He points out that it constitutes a permanent challenge for all those who receive the mandate to serve their country, to protect all who live in it and to work to create the conditions for a dignified and just future for all its citizens.
He also criticized that legislators only have the desire to accumulate wealth based on irritating privileges, and in other cases through administrative corruption. “The Nation will not advance as long as you continue with unconstitutional practices,” Camino said.
