Paraguay
Raúl Latorre Left the Emergency in the IPS Bill Off the Agenda
The initiative had been added for consideration in the Chamber of Deputies, but it ultimately does not appear among the items set for the next session. According to ABC Color, the change comes amid the internal dispute in Honor Colorado.
The president of the Chamber of Deputies of Paraguay, Raúl Latorre, decided not to include in the agenda for Tuesday the 28th the bill on the emergency in the Instituto de Previsión Social, despite the proposal having previously been added for consideration, according to ABC Color.
According to that outlet, last week the Cartista lawmaker Cristina Villalba, chair of the Budget Committee, asked that the initiative be placed among the first items on the next ordinary session’s agenda, and that motion was approved by the full chamber. However, the bill does not appear among the 27 topics ultimately defined.
ABC Color noted that the decision comes amid the internal dispute in Honor Colorado. It also recalled that, after a meeting of the leadership table and caucus leaders, the Cartista deputy leader Alejandro Aguilera had confirmed that the bill would be debated and that a summons was even scheduled for Monday the 21st for the new IPS president, Derlis León, to hear his position before the caucus.
According to ABC Color, the text had initially been approved in the Chamber of Deputies with a focus on medicine shortages, infrastructure problems and elevator failures at the central hospital, with only five articles. But the Senate introduced a version with 20 articles that, according to that newspaper, substantially altered the original content.
Among the points questioned by ABC Color are articles 17 and 18 of the Senate version, which propose changes to the legal limits for IPS investments in a single financial institution. The outlet explained that current regulations set a cap of 10% of the institute’s total assets, and that the new wording would allow different instruments, such as certificates of deposit and bonds, to be counted separately.
Still according to ABC Color, that change could benefit Ueno Bank, an institution that would already have reached and even exceeded that limit. The newspaper added that the Contraloría General de la República recently warned about a “significant exposure” of public funds in that bank.
ABC Color also indicated that Latorre had a scheduled meeting with President Santiago Peña and that, in addition, another meeting was held this Friday at Mburuvichá Róga with the head of the Banco Central del Paraguay, Carlos Carvallo, and representatives of the financial sector, including the Asociación de Bancos del Paraguay.
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