The president of the Chamber of Deputies, Alfred Pacheco, indicated that “in theory” the Government should not have any type of inconvenience so that in Tuesday’s session the bill is unanimously approved bill of supplementary budget after having sent an addendum that excludes reducing funds to the Ministry of Education.
The congressman indicated that the Executive Branch “acceded to the petition made by many sectors of society and opposition political parties” for the reduction in the budget for Education.
The congressman’s statements were offered upon leaving a meeting with the deputies of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), the Minister of Finance, Jochi Vicente, and the Budget Director, José Rijo Presbot, where they discussed some aspects of the budget modification. 2022 overall.
In this sense, the president of the Lower House indicated that the meeting held with these ministers resolved the aspects that, in his opinion, are the “most important contained in the piece sent by the Executive Power.”
“That is why the discussion that has taken place today has been summarized and that is why the Budget Director came and the Minister of Finance came to give us the explanations of the place. They had already done it with the commission and the entire Chamber”President of the Chamber of Deputies
He stated that the meeting after Tuesday’s session was held to give guidance to the deputies of the ruling party.
Pachecowho is a deputy for the PRM, indicated that he hopes the bill can be approved bill in the session this Tuesday and highlighted that the only modification was the envy by the Executive Power in the addendum.
“We hope that we can learn about it today and that we can approve it by virtue of the fact that the main requirement that Dominican society and the opposition parties had was duly assumed,” he said.
He explained that the supplementary budget it is to “use the resources that are projected not to be implemented in a given ministry and transfer them to another that is going to use them.”
