President of the Senate Ramon Alburquerque said that the report prepared by Senate advisor Pedro Manuel Casals Victoria and signed by Senator Jose Rafael Abinader has not been discussed in the Senate nor has it been approved by the majority of the Senators, thus it cannot be referred to as a Senate report. Alburquerque, nevertheless, said that Senator Abinader has every right to deliver to the Attorney General’s office his denunciation of irregularities during the privatization of the CDE. "There is a difference between what is a document of the Senate and what is a document of a senator," said Alburquerque. He said that the Senate recently negotiated an extension of the contracts of the power distributors and authorized increases in their rates within two years.
