With 57 votes in favor “it remains Approved the Law of Foreign Agents“, Said the president of the CongressErnesto Castro, during a plenary session.
“For each financial transaction, disbursement, transfer, import in species or material goods of any kind, or any other, and that are from funds from the foreign principaleither through donations, payments or other conceptsin favor of its foreign agents in the country, a 30%tax “states article 11 of the legislation.
The law will enter into force Eight days after publication in the Official Gazetteand the obliged subjects must register in the Registration of foreign agents (Raex).
“The law is incompatible with democracy“And it will be” a Control and censorship tool“, Warned the opposition deputy of the party Come on, Claudia Ortiz.
For his part, the deputy of the rightist Nationalist Republican Alliance (Sand), Francisco Lirahe said that the regulations “is a law jaw“For the NGO that “they are pointing out arbitrary acts of this government“
“We are doing what the Law empowers us“, Said the president of the parliament.
The president had advanced the initiative a week ago, after several Oenegés They will denounce the arrest “arbitrary”From environmental lawyer Alejandro Henríquez and the evangelical pastor José Pérez, leader of a peasant cooperative of 300 families They protested Not to be evicted from a foreign property.
Bukele said that “humble people” are “manipulated“By” groups “of the left” and Globalist NGOswhose only real objective is to attack the government“