Clarin.com Wednesday 22, July 2009
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textoEnviarImprimir size Demanding that Congress repeal the gas and electricity increases 15:11
opposition MPs concerned require a project to repeal the resolutions and the presidential decree allowed to rise to 400% for gas and electricity bills. They say the increase is "unconstitutional, illegal and unjust."
The project, which will be presented today at 15 at a press conference was also signed by the radicals and Sandra Rioboo Azcoitia Pedro and Claudio Lozano (South Project), Carlos Raimundi (SI), and Horacio Linares Alcuaz Virginia (Civic Coalition) and the dissident Peronist Luis Barrionuevo among others. socialist legislator reasoned that the increases "are unconstitutional because they were not previously convened a public hearing, as justice understood in terms of Article 42 of the Constitution, are illegal because they apply retroactively when the consumption had been made in the previous two months. To this must be added that Decree 2067/08, which provided natural gas increases so called 'charge rate', which is not connected to the costs that make up the rate but with import requirements, setting clearly a tax, and as such should be discussed in Congress. "He noted that" are unfair, because not only the social sectors with high purchasing power consume as much electricity, but also very poor sectors in society who end up being dependent electro because they have natural gas networks. The project calls for the repeal of the resolutions No. 1070-1008 and 1417-1408 of the Ministry of Energy and its complementary rules and amendments, Decree No. 2067/08 of Executive Power and its complementary regulations and amendments, Resolution No. 1169-1108 of the Ministry of Energy and its complementary regulations and amendments, and and Resolutions No. 324/08 and 628/08 of the National Regulatory Authority for Electricity and complementary rules and amendments, and Resolution No. 415/2004 of the Ministry of Energy's Office and its complementary regulations and amendments. The inicitiva was drafted by the National Movement against rate hikes users, comprising autoconvocados residents from different neighborhoods of Buenos Aires City and districts of Greater Buenos Aires: La Boca, Barracks, Central, Caballito, Saavedra, Tigre, Ituzaingó , La Matanza, Lomas de Zamora, Esteban Echeverría, Almirante Brown, Hurlingham, Morón, February 3, etc., together with the Association of Users and Consumers, Deuce, adduction, CEC, Free Consumers and Users and Consumers Union, the Central de Trabajadores Argentinos (CTA) and social organizations, unions and political. Did you receive invoices for services with increases?
The bill was introduced by the socialist Silvia Augsburger and signed by nine other members of almost every game. It was written by the "National Movement Members against rate hikes. "Legislators are hoping that the initiative involved shortly after the defeat of the ruling party in legislative elections June 28. Augsburger recalled that raised the issue with the Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo, the only meeting held so far in the context of the Dialogue "organized by the Government. And it also asked the head of the ruling bloc, Agustín Rossi, who holds the key issues to be fixed on the congressional agenda.
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