The bill to create the General Law on Electricity was finally reintroduced yesterday by three Senators from the Santo Domingo Agreement (ASD) bloc. [The ASD groups PRD with a series of small allied parties). The bill’s chief sponsor is Jos? Gonz?lez Espinosa (Dominican Workers Party – Barahona), who claimed that the bill is a "consensus document" that does not favor any particular special interest and counts on the full support of Senate Energy Affairs Committee. A prior version of the bill had been passed by the Congress during President Fern?ndez’s first year in office but was vetoed by the President, who argued among other things that the bill as then formulated tended to favor particular parties. A new version of the bill was introduced in the last session of Congress, but was never passed by both chambers. The bill was one of the few major pieces of legislation not immediately reintroduced when the current session opened on February 27th.
