MPs from pro-government banks proposed changing the agenda and adopting the so-called Legislative Initiative 6172 as a matter of national urgency, but failed to get the necessary support after several rounds of voting.
The first privileged request in this sense was proposed by the chairman of the Legislative Finance Commission, Cándido Leal, who announced weeks ago the adoption of the proposal to create a law to strengthen the social contribution of the electricity tariff in charge of the National Institute of Electrification.
To this end, the group of beneficiaries of the subsidy will be expanded to 2.2 million households with a monthly consumption of up to 125 kilowatt hours.
However, they never managed to get 107 MPs out of a total of 160 to go ahead with the project, which also has the support of Congress President Shirley Rivera.
This was the nineteenth Extraordinary Session, the first in 2023, and it also approved Legislative Memorandum 1-2023 to convene professionals interested in representing the position of Head and Deputy before the Directory of the National Register of Persons (Renap). The legislator.
MPs Javier Hernández, Herbert Figueroa and Jaime Lucero have been elected to form the commission in charge of reviewing the professionals’ files and must make a shortlist to present to the plenary, which will have the final say.
A new distribution of seats, or physical rooms, for the 160 MPs was also carried out this Monday, a motion that sparked much of the debate and also criticism from dismounted opposition groups, they said.
This provision begins on January 14 of this year, when the IX. legislature begins her fourth year of work.
The Standing Commission has convened the twentieth extraordinary session for tomorrow to continue discussing various draft laws.
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