After the suspension of the salary increase for the deputies, the relations between some banks were tense at change and the criticisms against legislators who opposed the increase.
The president of Congress, Nery Ramos, described as “Hypocrites and opportunists” to some deputies who, according to him, “They raised the voice” against the increase so far, but They were silent at dawn on November 27 of 2024when approved.
Ramos expressed when he announced the suspension of the minutes that supported the increase, on the newly last Tuesday, March 25, 2025.
The official deputy Samuel Pérez said that his bench does not feel alluded to by Ramos, although he regretted his anger.
“I regret the anger of the president and the members of the Board of Directors. We do not take for alludes, but I understand that there is discomfort with some deputies”Pérez said about it.
At the discretion of the legislator, the consistent would be to turn back in the plenary and completely repeal the agreement.
“However, we go further: we propose to reduce the salary of all senior public officials”Pérez said, who, minutes before the Board of Directors conference, presented an initiative to reduce salaries.
The chief of the covers, Luis Aguirresaid in his social networks that the decision to cancel the salary increase It was taken because the deputies do not attend to work.
“It’s over […]there is no salary increase. We make the decision because people do not come to work and do not deserve an increase. If we had been attending and demonstrating commitment to facts, it would be another story. But with the lack of assistance, the Board of Directors has to lower the salary”Aguirre said in a video posted on Tiktok, in which he appears next to the legislator of his bench, Mario Velásquez.
“These three months did not deserve them, and well done by you,” Velásquez replied to Aguirre in the video.
@sanjorge_ 💣Diputa Aguirre mocks the situation indicating sarcastically that since they did not appear to work, the salary increase is suspended. At the time he said that they deserved the account. This is seen in the video that the same public, in which it indicates that as they do not show better they suspend the increase to the salary, however he knows that in order to leave the increase to the salary, the majority must be counted to approve a decree that repeals that of the increase.
Some parliamentarians attribute absence to Tuesday’s session to the suspension of the salary increase.
However, in social networks, the deputy Adim Maldonadoof a faction of the National Unit of Hope, He said that, in reality, legislators did not attend because there were no agreements on a reform to the Hydrocarbons Law, which allegedly seeks to extend the Perenco company’s oil exploitation contract.
“The issue of Perenco was not included in the legislative agenda, since it did not have the support of the majority of deputies. However, some who believe they handle the agenda insisted on including it. Do not deceive them, that is the real reason why there was no session”Maldonado published in his X account.
They were suggested that the issue of Perenco for yesterday for not having the support of the majority of deputies, some who believe they handle the legislative agenda pushed to be included in the legislative agenda of yesterday.
Do not deceive them, that’s the real reason …
– Adim Maldonado (@adimmaldonado) March 26, 2025
An hour later, Aguirre replied: “Those are open discussions in front of people and in plenary, not in private offices or extortionists.”. The Cabal deputy also published a video with a conversation in which he was allegedly notified, since Tuesday morning, that the reform would be withdrawn from the agenda by an agreement with the Executive body.
According to sources of the ruling party, a new initiative to reform the Hydrocarbons Lawwith the intention of promoting its approval in Congress and archiving the current proposal under discussion.
Although the act executed by the salary increase was suspended, it is still pending that the Plenary of Congress discusses a proposal to repeal the agreement that ordered the directive to make the necessary adjustments for the increase.
The expectation is maintained for this Thursday, March 27, 2025with the planned session at 10 amwhere a motion could be included to discuss the matter.
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