45% of the bills or 108 bills ordered in the 2010 Constitution are still pending, reports Diario Libre. The 2010 Constitution ordered 222 changes that required legislative actions, of which 114 were approved and 66 are still pending to be amended. Another 40 norms need to be drafted, according to Diario Libre.
The Chamber of Deputies is led by Ruben Maldonado who took over from deputy Lucia Medina, sister of President Medina, who presided over the chamber in 2016-2017.
At the start of his term, Maldonado had declared the Chamber of Deputies legislative priorities would be the political and electoral bills, the penal, civil, civil procedures and business codes; the land use bill; the waters use bill; amendments to the Sports Law; the domestic help bill, climate change bill, organic bill for checks and controls of the legislature, among others. None of these have been voted on in the legislature that opened on 16 August 2017 and ended on 12 January 2018, nevertheless, reports Diario Libre.
The names of these bills in Spanish are: proyecto de ley de Partidos y Agrupaciones Políticas, Régimen Electoral, Código Penal, Código Civil, Código de Procedimiento Civil, Código de Comercio, proyecto de ley Ordenamiento Territorial y Uso de Suelo, projyecto de ley de Aguas, Ley de Deporte y Recreación Física, Ley de Trabajo Doméstico, Ley de Cambio Climático, Ley Orgánica de Fiscalización Control del Congreso Nacional.
Diario Libre reporters say that several bills have languished in Congress for decades, mentioning among these the Political Parties and electoral bills, the penal code and the waters use bill.
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Diario Libre
Diario Libre
17 January 2018
