The bench of Honor Colorado in the Chamber of Deputies, established a position in relation to the projects that intend to suspend the payment of royalties and penalties for breach of contracts in the delivery of soybeans.
Deputy Basilio Núñez, leader of the Colorado Honor bench, announced that he will request that both projects presented by his colleague from the ruling party, Colyn Soroka, be treated as soon as possible to vote for rejection.
For his part, the advisor to the bench, the pre-candidate for the Presidency, Santiago Peña, said that these projects were already raised more than a year ago and at that time there were already voices of rejection against them.
“To raise this again with just 70 days to go before party elections, what encourages is a populist project”Pena said.
Deputy Basilio Núñez, leader of the Colorado Honor bench.
He added that the projects of deputy Soroka generate damage to the legal security of the Republic of Paraguay and said that he would have liked the Executive to reject the initiatives, but lamented the “complicit silence” from the President of the Republic himself, Mario Abdo Benítez.
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Temporarily suspend the obligation to pay royalties, royalties or “royalty intact” for the use, production and commercialization of genes sold as integral components of seed for agriculture is what establishes one of the projects presented by the itapuense deputy Colym Soroka.
Deputy Colym Soroka.
while the second extends for one year, the obligations derived from the contracts, whose purpose is the delivery of grains of national production produced in the 2021/2022 harvest, regardless of the volumes committed.
These two projects were on the agenda of the ordinary session of the Lower House this Wednesday, but through a note addressed to the Presidency, Soroka requested the postponement for 20 days of the project that suspends the payment of royalties and for 30 days of the one that extends the expiration of debts for one year and prohibits surcharges.
