Law 7236/2024, which the president approved amid a scandal against authorities that appointed family members to public positions, modifies the principles of 7089/2023 that reject these actions, which “promotes nepotism and corruption,” the publication said.
Peña ignored the citizens who defended the veto and promulgated this rule, “which hits the distorted version of the law that punishes cases of conflict of interest,” says ABC Color.
According to the newspaper, the new law, consisting of 18 articles, amends current regulations and eliminates any obligation to report family ties that may be related to companies and guarantees impunity for violations of the law.
With his decision, the president also favored his political sector, the Honor Colorado movement, led by the former president of the country and leader of the National Republican Association-Colorado Party (ANR-PC), Horacio Cartes, adds ABC Color through several criminal offenses in the last few months.
For its part, the General Prosecutor's Office opened an investigation into the nepotism scandal involving the children of the President of the Congress (Silvio Ovelar) and the Vice President of the Republic (Pedro Alliana), who were “hired in a privileged situation”, according to the newspaper Última Hora.
This publication called in an editorial for “a parliament without nepotism and other privileges and vices” and denounced the bad practices widespread in this case, whose members favor relatives and friends, expropriate state property and leave behind dozens of appointments of their relatives. with impunity.
The newspaper referred to the “publicized nepotism scandal in Parliament” but admitted that “this was just the tip of the iceberg”.
The publication recalled that last year “a few days before the elections (April 30) and in the face of a 'defunded' general budget for 2023, the decision was taken to make additional payments in favor of 74,500 civil servants, an increase of seven million dollars.” .”
These increases, additional payments as part of family allowances and appointments, and demands for health insurance were some of the privileges that the government gave to civil servants as motivation just before the elections, the newspaper said.
A journalistic investigation conducted by Última Hora found that 70 percent of judicial officials are affiliated with the ruling ANR-PC, including judges and congressmen.
For Última Hora, “the relatives, friends and endorsements of our politicians continue to burden the budget, while the children of deputies and senators, liberals and 'Colorados', denounced daily in the media and social networks, remain in their offices the most.” Part.
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