Paraguay
The Paraguayan Senate will review the pension for Rodrigo Quintana’s mother
The initiative has already been approved by the Chamber of Deputies and, if it advances in the Upper House, it will be ready for promulgation or a possible veto by the Executive Branch.
The Senate must consider the bill seeking to grant a special pension to Felicita Arrúa, mother of Rodrigo Quintana. According to ABC Color, the proposal already has half approval from the Chamber of Deputies and, if it receives the green light in the Upper House, it will be approved by Congress.
According to that outlet, the initiative was introduced by lawmaker Jorge Ávalos Mariño, who proposed continuing the financial assistance the state had granted to the family in 2017. At that time, Congress approved a pension of G. 2,500,000 for Fidelino Quintana Ruiz, Rodrigo’s father.
ABC Color noted that that benefit ceased to be in effect after the death of Fidelino Quintana Ruiz, which occurred on May 28. For that reason, the new bill proposes transferring that assistance to his widow.
The initiative was approved in the Chamber of Deputies with 48 votes in favor and then sent to the Senate. The newspaper added that the committees of the Upper House issued a favorable report, so the file is now before the full chamber.
In the bill’s rationale, cited by ABC Color, it is recalled that Rodrigo Quintana died in April 2017 at the PLRA headquarters, amid the protests against the constitutional amendment that was promoting the presidential reelection of Horacio Cartes. It also notes that he was a youth leader from La Colmena and a student of Agronomic Engineering.
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