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Colorado infighting heats up over the IPS bill and the clash between Cartes and Peña
Disident Colorado lawmaker Roberto González linked the parliamentary debate over the IPS emergency law to the dispute between Horacio Cartes and Santiago Peña. He also questioned changes introduced in the Senate and warned about a possible concentration of deposits.
The standoff within the Colorado ruling party is going through a moment of intense tension amid consideration of the amendment to the emergency law of the Social Security Institute. According to ABC Color, the focus is on an article added in the Senate that sets accounting criteria for financial instruments deposited in banks.
According to that outlet, the bill that had come out of the Chamber of Deputies had five articles, but in the Upper House it was expanded to nearly twenty. In that context, dissident Colorado lawmaker Roberto González told ABC Cardinal that the text needs a detailed technical review and raised concerns about the risk that deposits could once again become concentrated in a single banking institution.
González also said, according to ABC Color, that it is questionable to amend the law if that ends up benefiting only one entity. For the lawmaker, the legislative debate intersects with the political split between the sectors led by former president Horacio Cartes and President Santiago Peña.
Still according to ABC Color, González considered it likely that one of the triggers of the crisis was the request for information approved in the Senate at the urging of Cartes-aligned lawmakers regarding Ueno Bank, an institution that concentrates public funds and that, according to that outlet, has ties to Peña’s former associates. In that context, the lawmaker interpreted Cartes as having “rubbed the President the wrong way” through his senators.
The internal situation in the ANR also worsened after Cartes announced on his own the vice-presidential pre-candidate for 2028, above the position of Vice President Pedro Alliana, who leads the movement’s presidential ticket, ABC Color reported. On that episode, González pointed out contradictions within the ruling party and said that Alliana was not bothered by being designated, but was bothered by having his running mate defined for him now.
Asked about the future of Cartism and the erosion of power, González said Peña’s government is going through a severe deterioration. He also ruled out joining a possible rapprochement between Cartism and the Colorado dissidence to rebuild alliances.
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