This Wednesday the proposals of Arnaldo Samaniego were discussed, on the pago of the historical debt of the Paraguayan State with the IPS and on the aauthorization to the IPS to contract loans for USD 240 million owed to pharmaceutical companies and suppliers.
The first was postponed sine die and the other was left without a quorum at the time of the debate.
We are not going to accompany more indebtedness of @IPSParaguay at the expense of active and retired policyholders pic.twitter.com/6GyoxiFhhK
– Bachi nuñez (@bachinunez_nuez) October 19, 2022
In this regard, the Colorado deputy Basilio “Bachi” Núñez, leader of the Colorado Honor caucus, He said that his sector will not accompany more indebtedness of the IPS “at the expense of active and retired policyholders.”
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In this sense, he recalled that the request for interpellation to the president of the IPS, Vicente Battaglia, remained in the “oparei” and that by approving more indebtedness of the institution, it will be “cutting off the hope of the insured.”
“We do not know the reasons and we prefer to be discounted than to indebt our compatriots more”, argued Núñez when referring to the project presented by Samaniego.
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For his part, Deputy Pedro Alliana, also of Honor Colorado, said that the initiatives represent an exchange of favors, mainly with the “Efrainist” sector of the PLRA, where there would be an interest in approving another law on the provision of school lunches.
The entrance Strong rejection of IPS indebtedness at the expense of policyholders and retirees was first published in diary TODAY.
