He president Luis Abinader announced this Monday that it will be next week when he will present the reform of public spending and efficiency of the institutions, which is part of the “reform “fiscal” promoted by the Executive Branch. The other part of this reform prosecutor is the tax. Precisely, the president was questioned about the latter, which gave rise to his statements in THE Weekly with the Press.
The head of state added that the part tax will be “announced later.”
About the reform constitutional He said that the details are being discussed in a bicameral commission, that everything is going positively, “moving according to what we expect.”
He said that in some areas there are important contributions that congressmen are making and that the important thing is that “these contributions are made now because when it reaches the Revisory Assembly it has to be approved after having been discussed in that bicameral commission.”
The EDEs
When asked about what is being done with the more than 800,000 thousand users who do not pay for electricity, among which are mayors and aqueducts, specified that the president of the Unified Council of Distribution Companies (CUED), Celso Marranzini, explained last week all the transformation and investment what are they doing with the meters.
“For example, this year, the numbers can vary between 10 and 15%, between contracts pending delivery, I think we can be talking about 800,000 (meters), that is, the commercial part is being strengthened,” he said.
He recalled that the Electricity Distribution Companies (Ede) are “the Achilles heel of the sector electric. We are working, and improving management in general terms, but, gentlemen, it is necessary investment“That’s the reality.”
He recalled that the investment that “by 2022, we had about 700 million dollars to invest, and give distributors a leap forward, and then the increase in hydrocarbon prices came and we had to consume them in subsidies.”
Law of Cinema
When asked about the concern that has arisen in the sector in the event of deletion or modification to the Law of Cinema 108-10, Abinader said that “they do not know what the proposals are and that, when the time comes, reformwe will talk to “them.” He acknowledged that it is a sector important and growing sector of the country.
When asked if his government plans to analyze the situation faced by hundreds of prisoners in the country’s prisons in order to grant a pardon, he emphasized that he is not “a friend of pardons.” “Well, look, I am not a big fan of pardons. I have not granted a pardon in these four years and I do not plan to grant one in these years either,” he stressed.
He said that there is currently a prison reform program that is being started in several prisons to improve the conditions of prisoners. “Infotep itself is also giving many courses to prisoners so that they can reintegrate into society when they are released,” he added.
