Deputy threatens newspaper blockade

A DEMOCRATIC Change (CD), legislator has, threatened action against La Prensa following revelations of massive uncontrolled handouts to deputies in CD ridings.

The newspaper published this week a series of studies showing that that funds items delivered to deputies have no effective control.
Marcos Gonzalez, speaking in the National Assembly on Thursday, February 28 Gonzalez did not rule out protest actions against the facilities of the medium. "I want to send a message to La Prensa, I will put a lot of people in front of La Prensa and its landerers let us note, I'm not interested in their investigations because I have not won a real ".
The deputy added: "I do not care what La Prensa does. It is in the service of the oligarchy of this country."
He said that the newspaper hopes that in 2014 " rabiblancos" will fill the Legislature. "But those rabiblancos don’t come to the neighborhoods except for a vote, they want to go the other way," he said.
On the use of partisan handouts, Gonzalez said: "When a deputy calls, [the president] he is asking for his electorate." We fund hunger, we respond to hunger, to education, to water, that's what we do. I do not know, if they go to San Miguelito to see, because those people who criticize us do not give  families enough to eat.
According to La Prensa investigative reports, tens of millions of dollars are given annually to members, who often manage the funds from polling stations that bear no relationship to them. The money spent has no effective control by the Comptroller General and the Ministry of Economy and Finance.
It has also been reported that the government of Ricardo Martinelli spent $156 million between 2010 and 2011 of "items circuital" for use by 71 deputies. According to La Prensa, Gonzalez received $ 3 million in the period 2010-2011.