Deputy: "Anti-corruption law was halted by sanctions against nepotism"

Opposition parties accuse the ruling party of preventing the anti-corruption law from being passed and breaking the consensus

The National Assembly’s plenary session is to hold a second discussion of the legal instrument (Photo: AVN)

PEDRO PABLO PEÑALOZA | EL UNIVERSAL

Friday February 17, 2012 12:45 PM

As the saying goes: It happens in the best families. The opposition umbrella group Unified Democratic Panel (MUD) accused the ruling party (United Socialist Party of Venezuela) of halting the second discussion of the draft Law against Corruption to prevent any sanctions against nepotism.

Deputy Carlos Ramos (Un Nuevo Tiempo, A New Era, state of Mérida) upheld that the legal instrument was unanimously approved by the National Assembly (AN) Comptrollership Committee on November 23, 2011. Two days later, the AN Secretariat received the document in order to submit it to a plenary session.

Pedro Carreño, the new president of the Comptrollership Committee (PSUV, state of Lara), announced this year that his committee would review the draft law to submit it later to a plenary session.

Ramos condemned the decision adopted by Carreño and complained that the ruling party intends to shelve the law.

Translated by Gerardo Cárdenas

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