Call for tolerance in Assembly debates

A CALL FOR tolerance  during debates in the National Assembly  came fom its president, Rubén de León  while reviewing  the bills approved during the last six months.

Some other points, reported by La Prensa:

1) “Transparency is like water, if it is clear it can be drunk, if it is cloudy it frightens us.”

(2) “Attendance to the plenary was 60 percent. In  commissions it was 76 percent. These figures can be improved. Our actions are what give people confidence in us.”

3) “I believe in a debate where there is a clash of ideas, but without offending words or gestures that ultimately damage the image of the entire institution and not only of those responsible.”

(4) “I am worried that we will increasingly look to the Panama Canal to address issues affecting society.”

(5) “We should focus on the reforms to the Electoral Code that put an end to political patronage.”

(6) “In the previous period, 29 bills were sanctioned These included the law of decentralization, the judiciary and the law that grants a pension to the victims and survivors of the diethylene glycol poisoning.”

(7) “67 percent of the laws adopted were economic.”