It should be remembered that during the week, the Finance and Budget Commission established the restitution of G. 98,000 million (US $ 14 million), of the G. 119,000 million (US $ 17 million) cut to the Fund for Excellence in Education and Research (FEEI). And of the G. 132,000 million (US $ 19 million) to the Paraguayan Olympic Committee (COP) for the celebration of the Odesur Games.
However, during the session, they decided to return all of the FEEI resources.
MASI
Desirée Masi, national senator for the PDP, criticized that the Treasury uses the resources of Fonacide and FEEI balances at will. “Next year they send them in March and Congress is going to approve them. About the Odesur Games they were lying (to the Minister of Health). They can question, but not lie. When they said that in 2022 the boys from Becal will no longer be able to travel. They lied when they said research projects were on hold. When they said that we affected early childhood ”, he criticized.
He questioned that with lies they made a media issue that exposed the legislators as “monsters”. “They lied maliciously from the Excellence Fund where they are sitting on US $ 300 million without management. It is equal to wasting. They have it there and they don’t run. It was not going to sink. Next year we will have the balances of Fonacide and Parliament must approve. This way we will recover the ball ”, he affirmed.
He finally denounced that the Treasury was not disbursing the resources for the Odesur Games since October, and that this only ends up affecting the athletes who give the country more joys than the soccer team.
MARTINEZ
Esperanza Martínez, national senator for the Guasu Front, warned that the level of indebtedness exceeded 36% of our Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
“The maximum recommended is 30%. This will fall like a huge stone on future generations. And the big business power groups continue to resist changing the country’s tax matrix, ”he said.
He pointed out that by 2022 Paraguay’s tax burden will go from 9.60% to 9.66%, and that this would be the lowest tax burden on the continent.
“And of that tax burden, 74% of tax revenues come from VAT, indirect taxes (people of the middle class and poor class), and only 26% on direct taxes, large economic sectors, such as agro-exports,” he questioned.
