2023-11-02 11:53:24
EL NUEVO DIARIO, SANTO DOMINGO.- With the absence of the legislators of the Dominican Liberation (PLD), People’s Force (FP) and Dominican Revolutionary (PRD) parties, the Chamber of Deputies approved this Wednesday two loans that together reach an amount of 430 million dollars.
The first loan signed between the Dominican Republic and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) was for an amount of 200 million dollars (200,000,000), which will be used in the execution of the Mobility, Land Transportation and Road Safety Support Program. in the country.
The second loan, which also counted only on the vote of the deputies of the ruling Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), was signed between the Dominican Republic and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), for the sum of 230 million dollars (230,000,000 ).
These resources will be used as budget support for the Second Loan for Disaster Risk Management Development Policies (DRM), with a deferred disbursement option for disasters in the Dominican Republic.
Before the president of the Lower House, Alfredo Pacheco, put the first credit to a vote, the opposition deputies left the chamber for disagreeing with what they called a “loan festival.”
“The Government deputies continue approving their loans, putting the country in debt, but let the press know that this festival of loans is from the deputies of the PRM Government and Luis Abinader,” said the spokesman for the Fuerza del Pueblo party bench Tobías Crespo. , before leaving the session with his organizational colleagues.
“We consider that we cannot continue in this chamber, to continue supporting the chain of loans that is sinking the Dominican Republic,” were the words of the spokesperson for the PLD deputies upon his departure.
The two representatives that the PRD has in the Lower House also withdrew from the session.
“We assume the same role that the other blocks that have withdrawn from this chamber have assumed, given the divergences that have occurred today,” were the words of deputy Héctor Félix.
These loans submitted to the National Congress by the Executive Branch will now be sent to the Senate of the Republic for information.
History repeats itself
It is the second time that the opposition deputies leave the session, for disagreeing with the approval of loans, but this time the PRD members joined them.
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