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Wysany: Czw Mar 07, 2024 07:38 Temat postu: Anti-blockade bill calls for up to 10 years in prison |
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Arguing that the blockades are the biggest cause of economic deterioration, businessmen across the country drafted a bill to criminalize such a protest measure. They counted 2,000 road closures in 14 years, of which almost 500 happened in the last three years. Digital Editorialfebruary 19, 2024 (9:46 p.m.) One of the blocking points in the town of Melga, highway to Santa Cruz./ DICO SOLS One of the blocking points in the town of Melga, highway to Santa Cruz./ DICO SOLS TAGS:The National Chamber of Industries, in coordination with the Departmental Chambers of the entire country and private businessmen, presented this Monday the bill to modify the Penal Code and sanction, with deprivation of liberty of up to 10 years and financial fines, any person or group that threatens and carries out road closures in the country, after carrying out an analysis of the million-dollar economic losses that were lamented, according to businessmen, due to the blockade of the Evista sector in the conflict over the judicial elections.
The economic advisor of the National Chamber of Industries, Hugo Siles, participated this Monday in the presentation of the proposal where specific data on the million-dollar losses were also communicated in addition to the causes that generate negative effects on international businesses, the Gross Domestic Product. (GDP) and others. “We are making this Peru Mobile Number List proposal so that the blockades stop affecting the productive system,” said Siles after breaking down his suggestions. “Everyone has the right to protest, but their right ends when our movement and our right to work is being compromised… We are hopeful that it will happen (be approved) in the ALP by consensus, our economy has already been damaged and we all have to fight to recover it,” indicated Amilcar Rocha, president of the Cochabamba Chamber of Industries, Commerce and Services (ICAM).
The document will be sent to the Plurinational Legislative Assembly, as indicated. PROPOSAL From the National Chamber of Industry, a bill called: “Modification of the penal code: penalization of blockades” is proposed, which seeks to modify articles 293 of the Penal Code in addition to the inclusion of statements in three other articles. According to the document proposed by the industrialists, threats issued by social sectors that cause anxiety or harm the population and its public and private institutions are sought to be punished with deprivation of liberty and fines. “ARTICLE 293. THREATS. Whoever, by any means, frightens or threatens a person, family, community or institution, with the purpose of causing alarm, anxiety or terror in the population or in a sector of it, will incur, for this conduct alone, deprivation of liberty for three years. _________________ Peru Mobile Number List |
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