Despite millions having been spent to make the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate more comfortable and technologically advanced, Dominican legislators understand they can concentrate better at a resort. For the third time, the legislators agree to hold sessions for the drafting of an important law in a resort.
This time, the law they are studying is the Social Security Law. The legislators have excluded themselves from the previsions for health care and pensions in the law, and instead have voted for much-improved retirement and health care plans for themselves. During the past government, the legislators ruled an amendment that increased the benefits for the financial companies that manage the pension and health plans.
This is the third time the legislators decide they should meet at a resort. The first time was when in October 2021, the members of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies committee met at a La Romana resort to study the Dominican Penal Code. What they produced, nevertheless, was so controversial, the Penal Code now seems to have been filed away until people forget about it.
Next, the legislators agreed to meet at a resort to study the Extinction of Domain Bill, the law that would strengthen penalties for government and drug trafficking crimes. They would have started their sojourn at a beach resort on 25 March, but later this outing was postponed and the bill is stagnated in Congress.
Senator Ivan Silva (PRM-La Romana) protests the proposal to take legislative work to a resort. “If they come to work here to the Senate or to the Chamber of Deputies I will go. I will be there to work, but I am not going to go to a hotel to do my work as a legislator, I am not going to do that. It’s a mess, a joke,” said Silva in an interview in the program El Despertador, of Color Visión, Channel 9.
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17 May 2022