translated from Spanish: Provoste urged Energy Minister whether it will support the draft amending the Act of electrical services

Within the framework of the exhibition of Minister Susana Jiménez by the draft amending the law of electrical services, which States that the installation of new equipment such as meters will be charge exclu the Distributor, the Senator Yasna Provoste SIVO said that “Minister said clearly in the Commission that the agreement of the 10 thousand pesos is voluntary and cannot be never incorporated in the price”.
“The motion that we have tabled, which is very simple, to ensure by law that this rate may not be transferred to citizens is simple enough to be able to support and I think it’s time be defined where we are. If we are to protect citizens or are done negotiations with the business sector to ensure 10 thousand pesos for the meters,”he said.
Also consulted by the agreement between the Government and the electrics, the parliamentary indicated that “it is very unfortunate, because instead of being in Parliament trying to improve initiatives by law, today is preferred negotiating with industry”.
“We asked the Minister. “But there was an answer of how came to the value of the 10 thousand dollars”, said the DC representative.
Finally, Provoste concluded that “one in life has two paths, use energy in defending it saying that it is an inherited problem or the other way is to use all its energy to establish by law fixes that should generate, in such a way to prevent these systematic abuses to the citizenship”.

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